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...

In Dasukigate Stealing is not Corruption

Yes, I agree we must put issues into perspective. In so doing, we cannot but conclude that in the ongoing Dasukigate stealing is not...

Between Dasuki and Diezani

The 'toppled' PDP government is fast unravelling. Since ex-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) stepped down by leaving Aso Rock Villa on May 29 this...

The Way Forward

Almost every Nigerian agrees with the assertion that corruption is the greatest threat to the nation becoming the most desirable country to live in...

When a Lizard Falls From the Wall

When an analyst trying to play funny, joked with the expression that Nigeria moves one step forward and several steps backward, the dramatization of...

Biafra as Nightmare and Fantasy

I have been distressed beyond words by what has crystallized as an agitation for Biafra’s divorce from Nigeria. I am disturbed that this agitation...

The Need for Holistic and Altruistic Approaches to IGR and Taxation in Nigeria

This is not an academic or professional article about what IGR or taxes are. We already know what they are and the role they...

President Buhari, Beware, You’re Presiding Over the Crisis of a Wealthy Nation

President Buhari, as you begin to clean the Aegean of corruption in Nigeria, beware of political and military friends, and friends of friends; take...

The New Nigeria(n)!

For sixteen giddy years (fraught with fiscal heist and misgovernance) the People's Democratic Party (PDP) ruled over Nigeria and Nigerians. What started in 1999...

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The Merits of the Presidential Debates

A gymnastic political party ought to be able to field only a candidate whose breadth of knowledge covers the whole political issues of crucial interest to the state and its people...

The Black Consciousness Movement in South African Literature

Perhaps the antecedents of any serious modern black South African literary production could be located in the fifties when political repression was at its most physically visible...

The Willing Accomplices

Why do you think that it is only PDP that 'rigged' the elections? You can not blame only PDP and leave out the other political parties. They are all complaining now because allegedly PDP out-foxed and out-rigged them all...

Revealing Port Harcourt!

In Port Harcourt, as I’m writing this piece, the nightmarish traffic congestion is no more. In almost all parts of the city, there is no more regular load shedding, loss of underground water level, severe environmental pollution, over-flooding of storm drainage, no more lack of adequate open space and play areas...

Nigeria: Goodbye to Democratic Governance?

In practical terms, one can confidently argue that democratic...

Who will bell the NDDC Cat?

On 28th October 2019, the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA,...

President Jonathan and Juju Heritage of Cursing

President Goodluck Jonathan's invocation of curses on his appointed ministers may look like falling into our primordial and juju heritage, but the action has proved a sound point. "May your road be rough. May you have hard time this year. May you have plenty of troubles", are the curses hurled on his ministers to prepare them for the murderous task ahead...

A Summer Without The Boys

Since I have been living abroad, one of the things I look forward to every year is my annual summer holidays in Nigeria. A time normally reserved for me and the boys to get into all sorts...

Pages in Life: Mama Bookworm (2)

As a young child, constantly watching and hearing my mother's pain as she struggled with trying to raise five children from a bad marriage with little help, I learned to be quiet and somewhat withdrawn in public...

Campaigns Deadlier Than AIDS

I must tell you that if I decide today to organize a "Miss Erect Breast" or "Miss Nude Beauty" pageant, with a promise to pay about one million Naira as annual salary to the winner, some parents would certainly come bribing me to shortlist their daughters...