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...

An Omission in the Anti-Corruption Bill

In a thorough legal review by the Curatorum of BOSAS International Law Bureau during a widely attended conference at NICON PLAZA on 5th December...

Buhari, Call off Customs’ Siege on Igbo Traders

A few days ago, a friend sent me a video of a choir made up of members of Nigeria’s security agencies singing “Feliz Navidad,”...

Threat to National Security

The way things are going on in Nigeria is totally unacceptable and unbecoming! The media anchors and advisers to Mr. President are incompetent and...

Nigeria: A Call to Duty

Every human being on the planet earth desires to prosper; no one ever prays to be poor. The government of every nation determines how...

Buhari, Stop the Charade of War against Corruption, Please!

President Muhammadu Buhari should admit, today, not tomorrow, that his so-called war against corruption is unserious, tiresome, illegitimate, hypocritical, and a waste of Nigerians’...

Wolexit: Between Kongi and Netizens!

The Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, is a living literary legend. He is revered all around the world for his literary greatness and singular...

Trump, Buhari and the Crude Art of Wobbling and Fumbling

On November 8, 2016 Americans elected Donald Trump as their 45th president. By the time you’re reading this, Mr. Trump would have named all...

A Christmas Gift from Yonder to all Nigerians

Dear Compatriots, May our roads not be crooked or rough again! May we have a mind of imagination for the possibility of a great Nigeria....

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The Animal Farm: Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop!

"Nigerian leaders on Friday (28 February 2014) called on...

Of Abraham Lincoln and Obafemi Awolowo

There appears to be strange developments between the United...

Olajumoke Ale: Tribute To A Life Of Service And Wisdom

Life, a “transparent pearl” (Shan Sa), is often recognized...

Prosperity, Eternity (7): Being that Faithful and Wise Steward!

When we use the unrighteous mammon the way God expects them to be used it is only then that we can be entrusted with the true riches. In other words only those who are using the unrighteous mammon faithfully on earth can be given or rewarded with the true riches in all of eternity...

Fears and Certainties of 2015 today

For many people these are clearly uncertain times, it is the same everywhere you look in the world. In Nigeria, however, uncertainty is the norm. It is neither a temporary nor a new phenomenon. Generally, most people living in Nigeria and those dealing with Nigeria are never certain of what to expect...

Okiro’s Name Honours this Corruption

Apart from armed robbers - and perhaps kidnappers - it seems that the only other class of people feared so much by most Nigerians are the Police...

Sovereignty, Economic Security, Barrack Obama's Visit, Jonathan, 2011 Election And The Development Of Nigeria

 In order to accomplish its development pogrammes and make its citizens live much better, a country needs different resources: human, mineral, intellectual, land, water, financial, etc. Obviously, all things being equal, the more resources a country has at its disposal, the more development programmes it can accomplish...

NYSC: National Youth Service Corps or National Youth Slaughtering Corps?

It goes without saying, however, that due to matters arising, the time has come for us to go back to the drawing board with an eraser and wipe out certain programmes, schemes, etc., which have outlived their usefulness or at least have been rendered moot by certain happenings in certain quarters...

Hip Hop Music: Art or Obscenity?

Now the music scene is a complete bedlam and like all situations in our country, it has spun out of control. Bum shaking, women bashing, the F-word, explicit and sexually violent lyrics have become the order of the day.  Forget it, the regulatory bodies can only bark...

Welcome to Sociocracy: Against AK-47 Democracy in Nigeria

It is the Western man and not the African...