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...

Tinubu at 64 – Another Toast

Some ten years ago, in January 2006, I wrote, in one of my newspaper columns,‘A Season’s Toast to ‘that average-sized man with the heart...

Defeating Boko Haram: Matters Arising

Of late, the Nigerian news media - print and electronic, regular and social - has been awash with information of how the security forces...

Thinking of Tomorrow Today

Nigeria’s political discourse is stuck, rather tragically, in a familiar binary pattern. On one side, there are the bashers of President Muhammadu Buhari; on...

The Lion of Bourdillon @ 64

High-Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi, CEO of Daar Communications Plc, must have learnt the hard way how it feels to be in the opposition in...

Politics and Rivers of Blood

Last Saturday, voters in Nigeria’s oil-rich Rivers State cast their votes in a rerun election to choose lawmakers at the state and national assemblies....

The Impediments to Buhari’s Agenda: Time for Critical Assessment

In the next few months, President Buhari will be one year in office. As opined by this writer, his government has scored B+ in...

Nigeria Will Overcome

For Nigeria to survive and overcome, genuine, not discredited hordes of national thieves, must combat sabotage, petty bourgeoisie sharp practices like hoarding petroleum products...

Abati: To Your Tent O Israel!

"He who comes into equity must come with clean hands" - Legal Maxim Reading through Dr Abati's long article in The Guardian edition of 13...

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Politics, Governance and Nation-Building

There is a need for a society to exist,...

Uniting Nigerian children to fight climate change

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has shown a well deserved approbation: He was vigilant in seeing the importance of children beyond their believed exclusive assignments of classroom and domestic chores...

Stuck With You

My journal entries are more like prayers that I try to write as sincerely and openly from my heart, especially when I find it hard to articulate them vocally or when am too lazy to kneel down to pray...

Abia: A Land of Agberos

We have read or heard about the different relocations of peoples in Abia State that mainly comprise traders from one point to another. But what we were not told was how many of the traders could not get accommodations in the places they were transferred to...

Conversation with Anne Easterly

"Find a symbol of your dream...Plan how to reach your dream or goal. Take a step, Learn from that first step and plan your next step..."

Why should Mr. Speaker Resign as Speaker?

Morality and governance are Siamese twins. You cannot separate...

Nigeria in the Eyes of the World; a look into Legatum Document

On October 1st 2010, Nigeria celebrated her 50th independent anniversary, while the euphoria among the “high and mighty” is still at its peak, and the nostalgic feeling among average Nigerians is still fresh in our memory, it is instructive that we keep in view, the 2009 Legatum Prosperity Index

Writing The Wrongs In Publishing: Empowering Women Through Publishing (2)

...The point is made in very subtle ways that women writers are a kind of second class citizens who should be kept together, - out of the mainstream - to read and make critical analyses of their own works. In addition, if one were to look at review space on the pages of books, novels by men get better coverage...

Tinubu’s $21.5 Billion Loan Gumbo: Who’s Really Benefiting?

While the streets of Nigeria are filled with hunger-stricken...

But what really is Nigeria’s problem?

When, in 1814, Europe’s leading statesman, Count Metternich, said...