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...

Minna Sanhedrin and More Pertinent Issues

The symbolic event of Friday, May 11, 2017, had occupied my mind for some time: the day multitudes of Nigerian political heavyweights and pretenders,...

Between Certificate and ‘Cerfiticate’!

Education is strategically vital to the development and greatness of any nation. It remains the key to unlocking the socio-economic potentials of any society....

Aso Rock and the Hovering Vultures

Lexicographers have their ways with terminologies. What, for instance, is the relationship between a wake of vultures and a wake in fluid dynamics? Whereas...

A Crucial Message To My Igbo Brothers and Sisters

This is the time to begin to clamor for restructuring of Nigeria. The real Igbo man or woman should be rallied around to be...

Before Another Yar’Adua Happens!

At 74 Muhammadu Buhari is the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces. He came to power in May 2015 after winning a...

Nigeria 2019: Nigerian Youths and One-Term Proposition of Buhari’s Presidency

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for...

The Nigerian Senate – The Reign of Banality

The banalisation of senatorial business is taking its toll on the Nigerian Senate, a body of venerable, distinguished statesmen and women that seems to...

Suleman: Blessed are the ‘Apostles’!

Apostle Johnson Suleman, the Overseer of the Omega Fire Ministries Worldwide, is a man in the eye of the storm lately. He first came to...

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Nigeria: Power Belongs To The Looters

In Nigeria, politics and government are like banks where money is kept, and thus it will continue to attract very smart, unsavoury and dishonest vagabonds, whose main aim in life is to steal the money…

Fayose: The “Surugede” Dance of the Disillusioned Governor

An Igbo proverb: A child that dances to the...

Putin: The Great Adversary or a Pawn in America’s Geopolitical Chessboard?

In today’s volatile world order, President Vladimir Putin is...

Goodluck Jonathan’s Notes To Muhammadu Buhari

Dear General, On behalf of “Mama Peace” and myself, I...

Corruption Has Won The Battle Against Corruption

As far as Nigeria is concerned, we should think not what we can do to corruption but think of what corruption can do to Nigeria and Nigerians...

Workable Ways to World Peace

(A review of Toward Effective World Security by Uchenna...

Would You Worship God Without Promises? A Bold Reflection on Faith and Motivation

Faith. It has shaped civilizations, driven revolutions, and comforted...

Nigeria: What We Should Ponder On

We all complain about Nigeria but the truth of the matter is that you and I make up the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Our lackadaisical individual lives have affected our collective goals as a nation...

Customer Service, Consumer Rights, Help!

Is it not bad enough that we have an apathetic government that is insensitive to our plights, why do we not learn to make life easy for ourselves? What we do to ourselves, as Nigerians, is disheartening. Why do we torture ourselves?

Open Letter to Protesters

I have written this because of my awareness of the attendant risks in the society we live in and the fragility of human life. Don't be a dead hero, martyrdom is generally overrated...