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...

Throwing a Lavish Party for the Dead

I have said this before: one of the hardest tasks is to predict how Nigerians would react in any given situation. We are a...

Miss Anambra and the Sex Video

When Miss Chidinma Blessing Okeke from Ogboji, Orumba South LGA in Anambra state, heard about the 2015 Miss Anambra Beauty Pageant organized by the...

Ondo State Election and the Politics of Vote Buying

“Politics cannot be effectively played or carried out without money. Even in those ancient days when politics started, some form of money was involved....

Biafra and the Business of Killing

Except in extremely isolated cases—for example, as an act of self-defense—it is morally indefensible for individuals to engage in extra-judicial killing. When a government...

Man and the Art of Deception

Animals teach us much about ourselves. So many human behavioural traits can be explained by a study of the behaviour of certain animals. Take,...

The Patriot and His Hypocrisy

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is an enigmatic, controversial, misunderstood statesman in Nigeria. His national interventions always had an insightful impact on our national life....

American Thanksgiving: A Reflection for Nigeria

"Good leaders don't care about getting credit for good intentions but they're envisioned by the courage of their convictions." - Yahaya Balogun Every time you...

Gov. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi and Enugu Workers

Enugu State governor, Mr. Ugwuanyi, has enjoyed a rather impressive portrayal in the media since he assumed office. I have seen several articles parroting his “marvelous...

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The Destruction of Nigeria by Religious Means

I have always felt that the destruction of Nigeria would come by way of one or a combination of the following cleavages: ethnic and religious conflicts, cataclysms with origin in the Niger Delta, or the combustion of pent-up anger within the military. Lately however, a fourth dimension seems to be manifesting itself within the Nigerian fault line: the religionization of Nigeria....

Black Women Arise: The Fairy Tale of Meghan Markle

Meghan Markle’s bloodline serves as the confluence of many...

Barack Obama: This is Our Moment! This is our Victory!

All around the world from Asia to Europe, from the swamps in Africa to downtown in North America, the victory celebration is on. I can imagine how Africans will be twisting their hips doing the Makosa...

Inferiority Complex: Nigerians and Their White Counterparts

It has to be humiliating what we are going through as a nation: an incompetent, rapacious and thieving leadership lording over a fatalistic, gullible and poverty-stricken populace...

A Threat Greater Than Boko Haram

If the move to fire Ringim and hire Abubakar was meant to indicate a new, firm resolve to square off against Boko Haram, the orchestration fell flat on its face. From the outset, Mr. Abubakar’s headship of the police was freighted with far from reassuring controversy...

Recipe for Revolution

They say it cannot happen here. President Goodluck Jonathan’s men told us after a Federal Executive Council deliberation that the Egypt-style revolution that began in Tunisia and has become a shooting war in Libya cannot happen in Nigeria because our country has a ‘constitutional order.’ Whatever that means...

Resource Allocation: The More You Work And Produce, The Less You Get (419 Constitution 2)

Why is resource allocation not based on criteria like the number or percentage of graduates compared to the population, productivity, percentage of small and medium scale enterprises, percentage of self-employed people...

Eating Our Ponmo Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Occasionally it becomes one’s fortune to read a statement...

President Tinubu Must Avert A Sahara Energy War on Ogoni

The unfortunate story of the Ogoni repression has too...

Vice President Atiku Abubakar Must Explain!

The vice president has variously described the house or mansion in Maryland, United States, as his house, or his wife's, depending on who is doing the explaining! Some of the vice president's aides and retinue of assistants have impishly attempted to deflect Nigerian journalists' enquiries or questions...