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...

Of Buharists, Jonathanians and a Simple Analysis of Political Immaturity

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is appalling to know that...

The Real Problem with Nigeria

What is the real problem with Nigeria? Why is a country so extravagantly endowed so conflict-prone? Why the growing calls in certain quarters for...

Low Oil Prices, In Final Analysis, Good For Nigeria

Tumbling crude oil prices—with some analysts expecting the price per barrel to hover for some time around $30—is the gravest handicap Nigerians have faced...

Requiem for a Hero

“I was actually in that valley on March 28, 2015. I did not want Nigeria to slide into a theatre of war, with his ...

Buhari Goes To Daura

Retrospectively, In the history of Nigeria, no Head of state or President to one's knowledge, has ever willingly given his constitutional authority to his...

Obasanjo’s ‘NASSty’ Missive

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo could be described as an executive letter-writer of repute. Right from the Locust years of Ibrahim Babangida and the...

Open Letter to President Buhari and the Nigerian COAS

The attention of the Nigerian Chief of Army Staff must be drawn to the disgusting video trending on social media about the inhuman treatment...

Can Semenitari take the NDDC from the Cemetery?

In comparing the agitations being made by the Ondo state people for one of theirs to head the Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, with...

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Recalling A Poetic Tribute To Gani

The celebration of legendary legal luminary, Chief Gani Fawehinmi,...

How Many Generals Must Die Before Nigeria Faces Its Real Insecurity Crisis?

Nigeria is at a crossroads — and not the...

What Nigeria’s Poor Ranking on Transparency International’s CPI Tells Us

Transparency International has just released its annual Corruption Perceptions...

“If You pay a kidnapper’s ransom, you’ll go to jail!”

Nigeria is a funny and strange country to live...

What does IBB want again?

The strength of a nation lies in discipline. IBB betrayed the Nigerian Oath of allegiance, the army core values, and  the entire people for his over-ambition...

Why On Earth Should Nigeria Appear Poor?

Nigeria is not poor because we lack natural resources or because nature was cruel to us. We are poor because we lack the correct attitude...

Still On The Heart Of Africa Project

It is difficult to score Nigeria high in the international community as a result of the efforts of change agents and reformers such as Ngozi Okonji-Iweala, Nasir El-Rufai, Oby Ezekwesili and Charles Soludo, because their efforts are blighted by the ineptitude of other government officials...

Tinubu and the Rhythm of Restructuring

President Bola Tinubu's recent announcement to unbundle the Nigerian...

When A Nation Cannot Protect Its Protectors

By any objective measure, the death of a military...

Hey Jonathan, the trick is in the SNC!

The collective unconscious of the conservative, hegemonic North, to paraphrase Carl Jung, is to collectively destroy the chances of President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in the coming presidential poll...