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...

Modest Proposals on Corruption

Last week, I exchanged a series of messages on Facebook with a young man who accused me of exhibiting “sentiments” and “self-interest” in my...

Customs Officers No Go Die Well

Actually, I got this title from a friend whose close relative is a Customs officer. He would list all the atrocities of Customs officers...

In Search of Nigeria’s “Credible” Politicians

If you are in Nigeria and you have not done this before, try and do it right away. Just open a Nigerian newspaper near...

Listen Up Mr. President…

It is almost six months, half a year, since your administration assumed the mantle of office we’ve waited in bated breath for change that...

Ambode needs Oshodi

Reports reaching us from my Lagos is clear and unanimous: The honeymoon period between the people of Lagos state and our newly elected Governor,...

Nigeria: How to Hate Igbo

Recently, most of the newspapers reported the feud between the Deji of Akure, Aladelusi Aladetoyinbo, and Eze Ndigbo in Akure, Gregory Iloehika, over claims...

Ndigbo as Migrants in Nigeria?

Three years ago, I travelled to the United States for the annual convention of Mbaise people living there. The convention, which is usually rotated...

Buhari and the Syndrome of Sameness

President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration may have fallen prey to the political syndrome of sameness. In other words, his dispensation may well be firmly set...

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The National Health Bill Brouhaha

Since the first republic, Nigerian legislature has been passing bills ranging from serious national issues like national security to selfish laughable and unarguably comic ones like the one that apportioned a sizable portion of the national cake to political office holders’ wives...

Broadening Opportunities of Government Funding of the Informal Sector

We begin by appreciating the Federal Government for the...

Legal Implications of The Benin Appeal Court Judgment In The Edo State Governorship Election Petition

By the judgment of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin City, in respect of the appeal from the Edo State election petition tribunal judgment that lied with it, the Judiciary has once again demonstrated that it is the custodian of the nation’s nascent democracy and the last bastion of the people’s rights...

An Open Letter to IGP Onovo

There’s no question that you hold one of the toughest jobs in Nigeria. Under your watch, a large swath of Nigeria – specifically the southeast – is close to being overrun by bands of criminals who kidnap for ransom...

Pollution Issue: A Split Second Experience With Death

So this is how it typically ends when a fatal accident happens. No plans, no readiness for death and no goodbyes to loved ones. Who would raise my children? Would they be told I went to Heaven?

A Telegenic Revolution Is Not Yet Born

Ever since we achieved independence on a platter of...

River's Brand Image And The Competitive Struggle

It is the idea of joining unionism with politics that has swelled the nation’s security, unity and democratic lapses...

International Law and Diplomacy in the Syrian Crisis

In classical international law, the events in Syria should have been treated as “within the internal affairs of Syria”, which the UN Charter disallows other states from interfering in...

The Fourth Estate and the Other Estates (2)

In order to be worthy inheritors of Burke’s fourth estate, rather than usurpers, Nigerian journalists ought to reclaim the moral and intellectual estates. This process would entail, above all, attention to the place of language in journalism...

Emerging China, The Giant Of The 21st Century

Like a phoenix, China is soaring. A bi-polar world has emerged. Chinese diplomacy is having a profound effect on world politics...