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...

Journey to Sapele…

If indeed travel takes your mind for a ride, what happened to me over the weekend in Sapele was indeed an eye-opener. The family...

Saraki and the Hollow Senate

Saraki took to Facebook recently to lament that a clique may have hijacked the government of Muhammadu Buhari. Hear him: “What has become clear...

Between Obanikoro and Onikoro

We have got an identity problem to deal with, first and foremost, in this essay. The identity of the subject seems to be two...

The Unbearable Cost of Political Foolishness

I have written before about the profound pain that attaches to the vocation of commenting regularly on Nigeria. I wake up each day hoping,...

A Governor as a Wire-tapper: How an Executive Pervert Wrecked His State

For a state governor ever vociferous and self-assured – sometimes thoughtlessly so – in the murky terrain of Nigerian politics, Henry Seriake Dickson of Bayelsa State...

It is time for a moratorium on this National Assembly

In a sane society, there is a level below which no individual or group should be allowed to sink, hence we have rules for...

Implications of Bad Leadership and the Collapse of Global Oil on Nigeria’s Economy

Since the discovery of oil in the South-South region of Nigeria in 1957, the country has remained a mono-cultural member of Oil producing Economic...

To Niger-Delta Militants: Nigeria Will NOT Lose

Abi na Avengers dem dey call una? How many ears you get? Wetin you dey take the ears do? Listen to me very carefully as I talk...

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Towards a New Nigeria: Presidential Aspirants to Note

We, the people of Nigeria, must device a means...

Deepening democracy with intolerant politicians

In less than three days, precisely on Saturday, April 2, Nigerians will, again, troop to the polls to elect new leaders for the various legislative and executive positions at both the state and federal levels, in what some cynical political observers refer to as another democratic ritual...

Solititude And Melancholy 2: Just Before We Forget

The problem that drew me out of my comfort base today into a seemingly familiar residence in solitude and melancholy is why it is so convenient for people and public affairs commentators using a collective “we” to push blames of political and economic woes in Nigeria from “them” to “us”.

Of Elections and Judicial Pronouncements

I have always been curious about judicial pronouncements in...

Ohakim’s Nsiko Mentality Theory And Ndigbo

Ohakim has a message for Ndigbo; don’t continue dwelling in self-pity, stop lamenting the tragedies of the civil war because the civil war is over, stop blaming others for your woes, work to attain whatever you want to attain...

NLNG Literature Prize: Can This Award Be Trusted?

Let’s not mince words about this, the Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Literature Prize, since it berthed on the peripheral of our literary landscape five years ago, has always worn the cloak of controversy and short on the credibility...

Knowledge Waste in Nigeria (2)

The NUC should name “our investigators” so that I can send them damning evidence of fraudulent and criminal conduct, I am waiting...

Mildred Okwo: Girl Uninterrupted

"Africans are very colorful people and I cannot wait to tell our stories on an international platform... As you can see Africa is getting popular again with Hollywood..."

My New Year Resolutions for 2008

In the first week of January 2007 more than a dozen friends asked what my New Year resolutions were going to be. I had none...

A Blazing Sun – The Story Teller Returns

Out of the seething, smoldering ruins of our collective horrid judgment, a giant Phoenix is born, worthy prodigy of the master Phoenix Chinua Achebe. Achebe lives! Adichie lives! Hurrah for the resilience of the human spirit. Chimamanda, I celebrate the mystery of you...