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...

Still on the Supreme Court Verdict in Rivers State

What a close shave? Gov. Nyesom Wike has snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Wike’s victory has given us reason why we should...

Anambra’s Latest Gift to Nigeria’s Fledgling Democracy

At the end of last week, Nigeria’s Supreme Court gave a judgment that many newspapers and online groups interpreted rather decisively and excitedly. Headlines...

Ekitigate & Tope Aluko: A Festering Tragicomedy

While teaching at Ekiti State University, Dr. Tope Aluko once returned a book to the library. The busy librarian had his head down. Aluko...

Goodluck Jonathan’s (Un)dignified Silence

The quote, "I have proven to Nigerians that my political ambition is not worth anyone's blood" by Good luck Jonathan, on every appearance and...

Lines Between Points

Cecil Rhodes dreamt of a highway linking Cape Town to Cairo, an ambitious project at the time but not impossible. After all the Egyptians...

Electricity Crisis and the Illusion of ‘Body Language’

By Wednesday, April 1, 2015 when Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner...

On Metuh’s “Silver” Handcuffs

I have heard the condemnation trailing the handcuffing of Metuh and I won't say nothing else but well done to whoever thought it fit...

Buhari’s Unsexy Task

Nigerian presidents are notorious for self-aggrandizement. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo termed himself founder of modern Nigeria. And yet he presided over one of the most...

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Reflections In A Mirror Offer Opportunity For Objectivity

Without doubt, the present high crime rate in Wilmington is having some adverse effects on the economic and social landscape of an otherwise beautiful city. The city fondly described as "a place to be someone" is fast becoming a city of nobody...

Kidnapping A Nation

The octogenarian mother of Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was kidnapped right from inside their palace last week.  Of course it had to happen in Delta State, the home of corrugated kidnapping...

Who Will Vote for Inuwa Yahaya?

By Salmanu Jekadafari  The question above seems to speak the...

Adeniyi, Peterside – When Carelessness Begets Recklessness

A study of more than 65 countries published in the United Kingdom New Scientist magazine suggested that the happiest people in the world live in Nigeria. Was carelessness which begets recklessness, an ordinary human behaviour trait which saddens others but amuses us, quantified, to determine our euphoria?

The Jonathans: There is God oo

I was shocked to hear the President say that we do not have a modern army.  We don’t?  What then has been happening to all the billions that go into Defence budgets every year?  So, in a way, I was relieved to learn that the Americans are coming to help us out...

Nigerians’ Travails, Endless Hunt for Change and the Gathering Storm: Where Lies the Hope?

A spectre is haunting our fatherland. What a spectre!, that is occasioned by the palpable atmosphere of discontent, feelings of dispossession, sense of abandonment and ignominy of existence...

Gone To Meet The Man

First I heard of McGreevey, I was just arriving the United States and he was giving Christie Whitman a lot of sleepless nights...

Why Buhari Must Be Banned From The Election, If Nigeria And Nigerians Want To Build A True Democracy

Without any exaggeration, the forthcoming election will most likely be a turning point in the history of Nigeria in the quest to build a democratic and prosperous nation...

Your 200 Naira or Your Life

If 5 years have gone by and corrupt cops are no longer demanding N20 but N200, has the value of a Nigerian’s life increased or what?

Odia Ofeimun at 70: A Toast to the Health of the Master Poet

There is no better way of introducing Odia Ofeimun...