Nigeria Matters

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...

How long can Nigeria go under Tinubu?

I have always been fascinated by a phrase in the marital vows of Christians during wedding rituals: “till death do us part”! My candid...

Sixty-Six Seasons of Scandalous Scams and Slavery

Nigeria is celebrating her 66th Independence anniversary, and it can best be seen as a ceaseless sojourn in scandals, scams and slavery. The leader of...

Tinubu: To Be Or Not To Be – That Is The Question

“To be or not to be - that is the question” is one of the most popular and often-quoted phrases from William Shakespeare’s extensive...

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

Nigeria is at a crossroads — and not the kind where hope marches in at dawn. Rather, this is the kind of turn that...

How Did ISWAP Really Find Brigadier-General Uba? A Warning That Must Shake Nigeria’s Security Architecture

The reported killing of Brigadier-General M. Uba by ISWAP is not just a tragedy—it may expose a chilling truth about how our enemies have...

Oyebanji and Oyebamiji: A tale of achievers

By Adewale Olorunda When talking about similarities between people of great minds, two individuals quickly come to mind: Abiodun Abayomi Oyebanji, aka BAO, and Asiwaju...

Double Tragedy of Poverty and Corruption in Nigeria

By Innocent Edemhanria Nigeria is endowed with abundant natural and human resources, yet it remains plagued by high rate of poverty, inequality and pervasive corruption....

The Anambra 2025 Governorship Election

The recent 2025 Anambra gubernatorial election witnessed a resurgence of electoral criminality in varying degrees. The eventual success of criminality in shaping the election’s...

Open Letter to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu: Strategic Response to U.S. Threats Against Terrorists in Nigeria

Your Excellency, I write as a deeply concerned citizen—one committed to the survival, honour and future prosperity of our nation. The recent public statements by...

When Your People Clap For Their Own Invasion — The Height Of Failed Leadership!

When a foreign president openly threatens to intervene in your country’s internal affairs and a large portion of your citizens applaud, that is not...

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Tinubu and the significance of yesterday (2)

The detail makes the difference! In 1961, the regional...

On Business Battles…

To triumph in business today, never take it for granted that your past or what you read in books, scrolls, pamphlet and business magazines, will catapult you into the exuberance of profit maximization...

Music, Fun and Straight Talk at Nigeria’s Hip Hop Conference

The evening of Sunday 26th July 2009 witnessed serious, soul searching and no-holds-barred straight talk about the hip hop genre of Nigeria’s music industry. The first and the much hyped Nigerian Hip Hop Conference pioneered by the Committee for Relevant Arts lived up to its billing...

Dia Broda Obama 1 and 2

I am still waiting your ansa to my last letter. Hope things are all fine with you as you prepar for wite aus. How are Auntie Winshell and my shidren? Hope fine. Mama Sarah and all famili in Kenya and Nigeria have sent her greetings…

Lamidi Adedibu's Braggaddacio

Adedibu knows how to play crude and rude politics the Nigerian way. He understands the psyche of followers and the peculiar failure-prone corrupt nature of our leaders at the national level...

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

Heart of Africa Project: Another Drain Pipe?

In this internet age when the latest news from Nigeria could immediately be read anywhere in the world, long before most Nigerians are even able to do so, what possibly could any self-respecting fellow be wasting his time and the nation's resources telling the outside world about Nigeria that they do not already know?

Nigeria: A Unique Nation or an Oddity?

There is something about the way Nigeria operates that often seems to defy proven theoretical assumptions and the working patterns of most of the rest of the world...

China Did It Without IMF Loans – And So Can We (If We’re Serious)

Between 1981 and 2015, China accomplished what many developing...

The Conscience of a Chinese Capitalist

To understand how the Chinese business community was able to transform themselves and their country is not that simple...