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...

Awolowo’s Evergreen Words on Marble

The words of the late sage, Obafemi Awolowo, are still very much fresh in our minds and instructive to the Nigerian authority. The government...

Freeing the Chibok Girls (While Boko Haram Faces a Leadership Crisis)

Even the most implacable critic of President Buhari would have to concede that Boko Haram’s capacity to “shoot, slaughter and kill”—as its avowed means...

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

(I started writing this article in March 2014, but for some unknown, warped reason, never completed it. I have now decided to finish it) "Nigerian...

Additional Notes to President Buhari

Dear Mr President, We are not ashamed we campaigned for your election as the President, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria. It is now...

Anambra: Between Obi and Obiano

Anambra state is one of the greatest states inside the Nigerian federation. With Awka as capital city and Onitsha as commercial mega city, the...

Exhuming Bola Ige

In the decade and a half since Chief Bola Ige was murdered while serving as Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, the Nigerian public has...

Immune In Legislative Impunity

It beggars belief that our elected representatives at the National Assembly who were elected for the purpose of representing and making laws that will...

Matters Sexually Miscellaneous

Some weeks back I had stumbled upon a news item online that shocked me beyond belief. Elombah.com had reported that a 5-year old young...

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Big Brother Africa: Tayo Faniran and the Lessons we Learnt

A lot of people who consider themselves 'serious minded'...

I am Angry…May Be Not!

No one respect Africans. They make fun of us in movies and literature. They call us names. Yet, no one has ever been sanctioned. But you cannot call a Japanese a “Jap,” or be seen mouthing anything bad against the Jews...

The Foreigners Are To Be Blamed

The accusation in the statement attributed to Gana often provides refuge for the illiterates amongst us; the type of people that perpetrated the catastrophic destructions in Kaduna are as guilty as Gana who unknowingly is inciting Nigerians against Foreigners...

An Open Letter to IGP Onovo

There’s no question that you hold one of the toughest jobs in Nigeria. Under your watch, a large swath of Nigeria – specifically the southeast – is close to being overrun by bands of criminals who kidnap for ransom...

No Job In Nigeria: A Market or Manpower Failure?

Why do we crib and grumble till we turn crabby and yet continue to work for the same organization we often hate or condemn? Perhaps, it is the small pay packet...

Terrorism for Terrorism's Sake

It is a fact, painful as it is, that most of today’s calamities are borne out of yesterday’s inanities. What is worse is the fact that we are all in some way or the other continuously plotting tomorrow’s catastrophes...

Federal Republic of Thuggery

Shamelessness is the vilest disease of the Nigerian establishment. The...

Groundwork for Reforms in the Nigerian Judiciary (2)

We concede that there is need for urgent reform activity to restore the waning public confidence in the administration of justice as well as address new vistas of challenges, change and opportunities for the judiciary in the new democratic order...

Port Harcourt PDP Rally Stampede: Irregular Or Deregulated Police Action?

Facial expression reveals that Dr. Goodluck Jonathan's regime is in the right direction. Despite balance of the ethno-presidency system, the Nigerian people have accepted gradual economic changes observed ever since he started heading the presidency...

30 Other Things That Need Sexing-Up

I’ve compiled a list of 30 things that I - and hopefully all Nigerians - find utterly boring and completely uninspiring...