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...

The Supreme Corruption Nigeriana

Penultimate weekend Nigerians (at home and abroad) woke up to learn of the good news emanating from different cities across the federation. They were...

Shakedown of the Judiciary: Needed Panacea to Nigeria’s Corruption Woes

I will start this report by referencing a statement by the former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Muhammadu Uwais on corrupt judges; “A corrupt judge...

Edo 2016: Much Ado About Nothing

The outcome of the Edo State Governorship Election held on September 28, 2016, which produced a winner in the mold of Mr. Godwin Nogheghase...

Welcome, Godwin Nogeghase Obaseki!

After the initial postponement, consequent to negative security reports emanating from across the state, the much awaited Edo 2016 Gubernatorial Election was finally held...

The Road Ahead

That Nigeria is going through a period of economic upheaval is no longer news what will be news to millions of Nigerians currently facing...

Unearthing the Augean Mess in the Nigerian Judiciary

A society where the last hope of the common man is reduced to an avenue where justice is peddled and sold to the corrupt...

Buhari: Turning Nigeria’s Most Gloomy Moment To Her Most Glorious

On his emergence as Nigeria's President last year, President Muhammadu Buhari was faced with two broad choices; Continue the larcenous state of corruption he...

Biafra: Neither Pro Nor Anti

As a full-blooded Igboman it is always emotionally difficult to write about one's ethnic group or people especially when such write-up is deemed to...

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Let’s leave President Buhari Alone!

I don’t believe that not constituting his cabinet within...

Speaking Truth to Power: The Asiwaju of Progress or Manipulation

With the reversals by the courts of some gubernatorial electoral ‘victories’ of the PDP in the South West the focus in the media and the internet chatter fora has now shifted to the person of the ‘Asiwaju’, ’Bola Tinubu of Lagos.  To some the man awaits canonisation as a saint and to others he attracts vilification...

Unfulfilled Promises to Light Up Benin City’s Airport Road

Years of neglect of the lighting-up project of airport...

Chinua Achebe: My Awakening

It was the publication of There Was A Country that served as my sole premonition of the imminent death of my father Chinua Achebe. When he published it, my first reaction was "oh my God!" That was because for years, he had only commented in snippets on the Nigeria-Biafra war...

Lobby: Between Nigeria and Britain

The word lobby is a notion commonly used among politicians or in political discourses. The process of actualizing lobby is conditioned by various local peculiarities in such a way that those of us who are not members of the legislative or the executive arm of government, are oftentimes confounded...

An Open Letter To All Nigerians Living Abroad

Fellow Nigerians, there is nothing wrong with our land. It is rich, vast and fertile. Human beings have the ability to create ways to live better and even change the environment to suit their needs and wants. Amalgamation of the country is not our real problem...

When Citizens Begin To Negotiate With Terrorists: A Nation’s Dangerous Loss Of Faith In Government

The emotional reaction of social commentator VeryDarkMan (VDM) to...

Omoseye Bolaji, A Nigerian Author’s Exploits In South Africa

Omoseye Bolaji, is an award winning black African writer who over the years has contributed phenomenally to the growth of Black Literature at grassroots level in South Africa, especially in the Free State…

Letter to a Facebook girlfriend

My Dear, I have avoided treating leprosy with the prescription for malaria...

Come, let’s Reason Together

Let the battle of ideas begin to liberate Nigeria from the hands of charlatans and democratic pretenders...