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...

Nigeria and her intellectual acuity

This piece is a little recipe written to rejuvenate Mr President Buhari's health, as he arrives Nigeria from his treatment of illness in the...

Emperor Ajimobi and Mujaheed Aregbesola

One Governor rules his State like the Greek King Sisyphus who was notorious for his imperious, self-aggrandizing, bullish style; the other governs his State...

Restoring Sanity to our Armed Forces

A tsunami of disaster has swept through the rank and file of the Nigerian army and in one fell swoop, army officers who were...

June 12: Thy Spirit Liveth!

General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) served in the Nigerian military high command for decades as a professional coup-plotter. He achieved international fame or infamy...

Nigeria’s Strange Business of Corpses

I’m deeply troubled by what appears to me to be Nigeria’s growing industry of making and exhibiting corpses. The Nigerian state—represented by its police...

A Governor’s Credentials as Serial Wrecker

The month of May ended without any credit alerts for Bayelsa State Government workers, even after Governor Henry  Seriake Dickson and the State Chapters...

Niger Delta Avengers: Avenge me not!

Wanton destruction of lives and properties is now a viable venture in Nigeria. Not only is it viable, it is now a prerequisite to...

Buharism: The Fewer We Are!

Last Sunday (May 29) the Buhari administration marked its one year in the saddle. On May 29 2015 after the presidential poll in March...

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AFRICOM: Self-Serving Western Interests or African Security?

America's establishment of the so-called African Command should be seen for what it is. This is America's self-serving armada of protection for America and her allies...

The Folly and Vanity of Social Media “Friendship”

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Still on the 2026 Osun Governorship Election

By Abiodun Akaraogun As the August 8, 2026, Osun governorship...

Hip Hop Music: Art or Obscenity?

Now the music scene is a complete bedlam and like all situations in our country, it has spun out of control. Bum shaking, women bashing, the F-word, explicit and sexually violent lyrics have become the order of the day.  Forget it, the regulatory bodies can only bark...