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...

Between Abati’s Curious Ghost Stories and Goodluck Jonathan’s Fairy Tales

When I saw Reuben Abati, former Special Adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan's article on demons and ghosts that took over Aso Rock when...

Recent SSS Raids on Judicial Officers: A Legal Perspective

In his bestselling book, The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion (2012), the American social and moral psychologist, Jonathan...

Fayose and Wike’s Law

Nigeria is in this sorry State because our prison is filled with the innocent while the guilty walk the streets free. If not, how can...

Kitchen and Bedroom Politics In the Villa

The Nigerian First Lady, Aisha Buhari, is a combination of brain and beauty. Nigeria has had many first ladies but this one is perhaps...

FG: Re-open remaining High-profile Corruption cases

Two weeks ago, I read a report by Premium Times of September 27th, 2016, that Ex-governor Orji Kalu of Abia State has been re-arraigned...

Presidential Gaffes and the Hypocrisy of the Media

“I will not go out and campaign again and ask any woman to vote like I did before. I will never do it again,”...

NJC: Automate the Clerks after Sacking the Justices

In contemporary political philosophy, John Rawls is the last man standing on the idea of justice. He said that justice is akin to the...

Who Wants to Elect Judges & Justices?

 Part of the result of the invasion of the homes of justices of the Supreme Court by the DSS is the question of the...

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NADECO, where are you? (1)

Last week, I had the honour of visiting Dr....

Gulf of Mexico oil spill: What lessons for Nigeria?

It is striking that while the US government, knowing “just how precious the Louisiana wetlands are”, have been firing on all cylinders to cause the BP to pay for a one-off incidental spill, the Nigerian state and its institutions have over the years been working in tandem with oil companies to systematically despoil and impoverish the Niger Delta wetlands...

Has My State Governor Lost His Mind?

What do you make of a proposed Bayelsa State government satellite orbiting space? This is difficult to fathom especially in a state where the vast majority of the people find it difficult to move from one village to another, a state where a journey that ordinarily should take 25 minutes takes 5 hours...

Defeating Boko Haram: Matters Arising

Of late, the Nigerian news media - print and...

Ogaga Ifowodo – Seasoned Nigerian Representative

We are sick and tired of politics of you-chop-I-chop and politics of exclusivity. And just like the days of Chief James Otobo, one voice which all Isoko people and all Nigerians can identify with as having fought for egalitarianism and justice and politics of inclusion is none other than that of Ogaga Ifowodo. Esq....

China as Friend and Partner to Africa

China invests wads and wads of Dollars in America. China in effect underwrites a great deal of American public debt. Why then is it that America does not tell China to go stuff her dollars elsewhere because of her infamous record on democracy and human rights?

In Defense Of Reality: Nigerian Oil And All That Stuff

As West Africa becomes a significant and strategic dot on the global map, Nigeria as a regional power should be working hard with other members of the Gulf of Guinea Commission to develop modalities that would guide how the oil industry is controlled in the coming years...

Defending Nigeria in Nairobi…

I have come to understand that, outside Nigeria, the country is respected and adored in many respects. Since I arrived Nairobi, the capital of The Republic of Kenya last December, everywhere I go and every non-Nigerian I meet has one good thing or the other to say about my dear Nigeria...

Christian Women Dressing: Faith of our Mothers!

May we carefully observe to the shame of many of us today that these holy and faithful women of God had no hell or water spirits’ make-ups, weave-ons, perms, paintings etc; no exposures, see-through and or perforated attires and wears revealing contours...

Port Harcourt And The Criminal Activities!

The sudden and violent outbursts of power-mongers rowdies are often triggered by the authorities’ failing to meet their unlawful demands...