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...

The Corruption and Evil of Employment Scams in Nigeria

This article has been written in sad response to two recent “employment advertisement” scandals that have involved (or, rather, been repudiated) by the Federal...

Nigerian Media in Dasukigate? Et Tu Femi Adesina?

Nduka Obaigbena, owner of Thisday newspaper, is not going to go down in infamy all by himself. He is going to take down with...

Emperor Buhari, or Plain Poor Communicator?

As Muhammadu Buhari ran for the fourth—and decisive—time for the Nigerian Presidency, his handlers cast him as a man purged of the dictatorial tendencies...

The Year 2015: Our Year of Calamitous Disasters

If Nigeria, against perceived and preconceived mischievous intentions, could survive the year 2015 unscathed, it is now clear that Nigeria's disintegration is non-negotiable. The year...

Ayo Fayose: The Audacity of Impunity!

Among the 36 Governors in Nigeria one stands out as something of an 'enigma', a polarizing puzzling figure in his best nasty element. That...

Forget Dasukigate: It’s Us-gate

For the past several weeks, Nigerians on social media have made a big sport of what we’ve styled “Dasukigate—with an imitative eye to the...

Nnamdi Kanu and the Biafra Question(s)

2015 is on its way out, but not without the lingering issue of Biafra's secession that resonated this year, pushed by those who felt...

Buhari: The Man and the Mandate

Anyone who has been reading my articles for many years would testify that I have special respect and admiration for General Muhammadu Buhari now...

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Nigerian Music Scene: A Case For A Conservatoire

Will Nigeria ever have a homegrown classical or folk music that can be exported to other cultures and drawing respect and admiration...

Grandpa And The White Man

There was this crazy white man stationed in my village. Please don’t ask me what he was doing there; I don’t know and I don’t want to lie to you. All that I remember now is that he was with some oil company. He was a terror. He went round the village at odd hours with his tobacco and cigar in his mouth, spitting all over the place, insulting the elders, and swearing at us the youths...

Nigeria: Beyond Being On Auto-Pilot

The belief in several quarters that Nigeria is currently...

2011: Life under a Weakened Presidency

To say the current Presidency is embattled will be a glaring understatement. Isn’t the tell tale signs of a beleaguered Presidency evident in this breakneck and frenzied race to the 2011 elections?

Rule of Law Tainted With Impunity?

It does appear as if a pattern of tainted preachments of the rule of law and due process is emerging, courtesy of Attorney General of our Federation and Minister of Justice, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa...

Omololu Falobi – A Hero Departs

"Bros, terrible news…Omololu ran into robbers in Lagos. Bros, the guy is dead, Bros… That was how I learnt that Omololu Falobi, pioneering journalist and activist, a human being par excellence, a devoted father, friend and brother had departed this life...

Made in Lagos for Nigeria

In 2011, all Nigerians of goodwill with honest and upright intentions, regardless of their political affiliations or the candidate they support should seek the Lagos model and clamour for public debates with incumbents fully involved...

Babangida And His NLNG Show

Babangida craves any opportunity to shout out and holler about his negative genius and perverted wisdom as if nothing else matters in a country of over 140million people...

Failure of Imagination in Postmodernism in Nigeria 

What do Nigerians really want? A million dollar question!...

Political Parties and the Political Process

In Nigeria, the Constitution went out of its way to literally make the political parties the engine of democracy and the political process. It is those roles assigned to the political parties that I want us to revisit and perhaps have a shared feeling of their relevance to our political lives...