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...

Igwe Osita Agwuna 111: Time We Honored Greatness

It is rather fortuitous that Igwe Osita Agwuna 111, who for five decades reigned as Eze of the town of Enugwu Ukwu and Igwe...

Beware the Resurgence of the Men of Yesterday

Nigerian history is avoidably repetitious. If we the people refuse to learn from the ugly history, we are doomed to repeat it. Men of...

Dasukigate or Dasukibonanza

A name that has always been associated with controversy as far as the issue of national security is concerned, both during the military era...

Buhari’s Victory: The Role of Military and Political Intelligence In Nigeria

With the overthrow of the Nigeria Khakistocracy and Kleptocracy (1999-2014), a new Sociocratic dispensation is emerging. The tide has turned. The Socratic order is anchored...

Happy Birthday President Buhari

Dear Mr President, As you add and commence a new journey into another year of your patriotism, statemanship and incorruptible life, we the people felicitate...

The Revelations of the Damned!

"Unemployment, underdevelopment and poverty everywhere in the land. Our people are living like animals; we cannot even rear our children” – Source Unknown. “Quite frankly,...

Why (Not) Biafra

I believe that a nation need not be a fixed, immutable entity, but a living organism, susceptible (in keeping with laid out procedures and...

Sambo Dasuki Bells Goodluck Jonathan’s Cat!

Finally, somebody steps forward and names Goodluck Jonathan as the man who authorized… No… INSTRUCTED him to carry out all those ridiculous expenditures. Everybody...

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Election Observation Report: Osun State Gubernatorial Elections, August 9 2014

On Saturday 9 August 2014, the people of Osun State went to the polls to elect a Governor for the next four years. Expectations were high, fears of violence and intimidation had already been built up before this date and different stakeholders had made pronouncements of decisive processes...

Democracy, Governance and Credible Elections (2)

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Of New York State and Oyo State

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Nigeria @ 49: Still in the state of nature

It is startling that almost half a century after independence, Nigerians from Aba to Yaba, Uyo to Oyo, Ariaria to Zaria, not those infinitesimally privileged ones holed up in the many government houses across the country, still subsist in human, and at times dehumanizing, conditions that approximate the state of nature...

Go For A Medical Check Up If You Don’t Snore

Many couples are not happy sharing a bed because either spouse snore, even though investigation empirically shows that both of them snore...

Sense of Entitlement

When we view a sense of entitlement from the...

Much Ado About A Village Church

I hate pettiness and hypocrisy in the same vein and intensity. How many structures – libraries, mosques, churches, villas and house -- have been built for Nigerian leaders by construction firms and contractors over the decades?

The 2023 General Elections in Nigeria: Omodé gbón, àgbà gbón, la se da Ilè-ife

The 2023 General Elections in Nigeria: Omodé gbón, àgbà...

Newsweek-Adeboye: Pentecostals

Like witchcraft, Pentecostal beliefs are very appealing because they promise people immediate power and a million dollars. Also, those who are not yet born of the Spirit of the true Jesus and those who are not growing strong in true Christianity, want a god they can see...

The Patience Standard

Patience Jonathan, aka Dame Patience, aka First Lady, aka...