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 Defence of the Spirit of Biafra

Those who easily discard the spirit of Biafra are wrong and they need to be corrected. A closer look at their position and action...

Eating Our Ponmo Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Occasionally it becomes one’s fortune to read a statement that so closely captures one’s thinking about an issue. When that happens, one is freed...

APC: Remember, the Plebeians are Watching!  

If the news emanating from APC Kogi State is true, then we should be re-arming our political arsenals to prevent  APC shenanigans in Kogi...

A People’s Aversion to the Truth is their Undoing

"There is not a truth existing which I fear or wish unknown to the whole world." - Thomas Jefferson “When it comes to the truth,...

Where the Heck Is the Money?

Nigeria’s is a fascinating story of a corrupt country without a single corrupt person. In late September 2006, Nuhu Ribadu, the pioneer chairman of...

Who Really Wants Biafra?

In one of his recent articles, my brother and colleague, Oguwike Nwachuku, posited that based on the rabid anti-Igbo sentiment that seems to have...

Tinubu’s Intimidating Persona: Why We Should Speak Out

Reading through a press statement purportedly written and signed by one Mr Tunde Aina, the National president, Kogi United forum, on the death of...

Kudos to the Nigeria Police Force!

This might prove to be the foundation for a new, effective and efficient policing system in Nigeria. We will get there one day. It...

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“I’d love to see more Africans writing about Africa”- Segun Afolabi

“African writer” is, I feel, a label for those in the West to lump vastly different people together. “Nigerian writer” is a more useful term, but then again it’s not the same as “Nigerian-born writer”.  - 2005 $15,000 Caine Prize for African Writing Winner, Segun Afolabi.

Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…

Western imperialists headed by the United States want the devil to come back and complete his evil work and experiment on Nigeria and Nigerians. The Americans who have always claimed to be our friends could not find a worthy candidate or Nigerian in a country of 150 million to lead Nigeria in 2011 except Babangida...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! Part 8

The Niger Deltans should not be naive nor have any illusion as regards to a new ministry set up by Yar'Adua and the criminals surrounding him. Suffice to say that the ministry is as good as the official paper that was used to type its creation...

13 new Things I just learnt about Nigeria

The simmering debate on the deportation of some people of Igbo extraction by Governor Fashola has opened up a bigger debate on the necessity of the colloquy that must take place between us all...

Calm Down Nigerians, It’s Only Four Years!

Early on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, by 4.40 am...

Market Economy Reform In Africa: Case Of Nigeria (2)

There is no doubt the continent of Africa needs reform. From one policy to the other, the continent continues to search for a focus that will take it out of the threshold of underdevelopment to the stage of stability and developed economy...

The World could come to an End

This is a fiction which could become frightfully real if those who are given to belligerency have their way. In this essay, I will use hyperbolic polemics to present my narrative...

Where Will You Die?

Will death come when you are alone and lonely in a nursing home, at a hospice or in a hospital ward away from the love and gaze of your people? When death comes, will your children be around you or away tending to their own lives in far away places?

Osun ‘26: Returning to what works

By Adeola Ojo ​​In the quiet moments of history, there...

Ridding the Country of Acrimonious Opposition Politics

Writing in the December 2019 edition of the Atlantic,...