Nigeria Matters

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Do not pity President Tinubu

“We have corruption, insecurity, and many problems confronting us … but don’t pity me. I asked for the job. I campaigned for it. No...

Blues about Biafra

I wonder really if there are people who live without fear, people who against all odds have defeated what they fear the most, people...

We Are Deeply Worried

As Nigerians grapple with the dire situation in the country, President Buhari's ailing health is a great concern to some of us who believe...

The Epistle of ‘Saint’ Babangida

(Photo credit: DOMINIQUE FAGET/AFP/Getty Images via Flickr) Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) is a retired armoured General in the Nigerian Armed Forces.  A professional coup plotter,...

Open Letter to President Buhari: Please Resign and Let Nigeria Exhale

Your Excellency Sir, There are no better ways to say this: The release of that Eid-el-Fitri message to us through the BBC Hausa outlet, in...

Fayose for President, Dino for Nobel Prize!

The caption for this piece was originally meant to be "Strange Things In A Strange Country" but at the last minute I changed my...

Biafra: The Future Is Now!

Last week some misguided Arewa youths in Kaduna issued an ultimatum to the Igbos living doing business in all northern states to leave the...

Locating the Real Enemies of Nigeria

There is an age long presumption in Nigeria’s political discourse about the existence of a Hausa-Fulani axis of evil that has supposedly monopolized the...

On the Path to Perdition (Part 2)

I woke up from my nightmarish slumber with a loud scream that woke up everybody in my house. Sitting up on my bed, I...

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Transforming Ibadan – A Case-study in Resistance To Change

It amuses me to hear people asking the Government of Oyo State to provide alternatives to people whose illegal structures are being demolished. Why should the government be responsible for providing alternatives, when the Government never allocated these land or shops to them in the first place?

Volcanic Shocks On The World Cup Turf  

The 2026 World Cup tournament being staged in the...

Obi and Ohakim: Governors Without Godfathers

The shameless Nigerian political class are at it again. Reputed to derive joy in squandermania the new public office holders have begun the march again towards stunning profligacy...

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A Christmas Gift from Yonder to all Nigerians

Dear Compatriots, May our roads not be crooked or rough...

Blaming the Rescuers

Creating wealth from thin air was irresistible and frictionless for a government churning out dollar bills. In a globalization-led international division of labor, while China led the world in industrial production, US led in the production of the dollars...

Yar’Adua And His Policies

That President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is a listening leader is not in doubt.  The fear being expressed by observers right now is the amount of goodwill behind the variety of advice he listens to...

Senator Muhammadu Adamu Aliero, The Rising Profile of An Achiever

This is our toast, the toast of a long lasting covenant, the covenant of love and peace, that the Kebbi people shall remain united and that their leaders will strive to change their stations...

Going Through the Immigration Process to Bring Your Nigerian Husband to America (Part II)

The immigration process is not for the “light of heart”, for it takes endurance, trust, faith in your spouse, and a thick shell to ward off the doubtful darts of others who deem you foolish for waiting for such a long period of time or marrying a foreigner in the first place...

Our Poor Economy: The Need To Chart A New Course

Unfortunately not many Nigerians believe the economic conditions are much better now than they were before Obasanjo's emergence in the political scene in 1999...