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...

Diezani Alison-Madueke’s “Arrested Development”

Lord have mercy! It is extremely difficult to begin the skinning of this Diezani Alison-Madueke corruption cat. Normally, when you hear about corruption in...

Buhari and the Enemy Called Time

Last week, when he finally unveiled a partial list of his proposed cabinet, President Muhammadu Buhari also revealed—even if inadvertently—that one of his biggest...

A Generation of Confused Youth

“When will the goat be strong enough to kill a leopard?” will remain not just a proverb but a rhetorical question because a generation...

Nigeria’s 55 Years of Independence: Fact or Myth?

     Man has dominated man to his injury                      - Ecclesiastes 8:9    Man is a social animal who dislikes his fellow man              -Eugene Delacroix Today, the...

A Problem like Fulani Herdsmen

The brutal abduction early last week of Chief Olu Falae, a former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) and former finance minister,...

Why I Will Not Write About Saraki’s Trial

Friends and fans have pestered me lately with one or two questions. What do you think about the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki...

Reform the Civil Service or Forget this “Change”

Reading about the escapade of Nigeria’s dignitaries at the annual festival of talk and do-nothing at the United Nations General Assembly held every September...

Is Kirikiri in Saraki’s Future?

Boy! Was it great seeing Bukola Saraki docked finally! It took the resilience of a brave, no-nonsense Judge Danladi Umar to demystify and bring...

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I have watched the jingles about Poland being propagated on CNN, as if Polish prosperity only took place after the Solidarity Movement impacted on Poland. The truth is that if the Soviet Union did not have a socialist state organization that defeated Hitler, Warsaw would not have seen war and survived...

Time To Destroy The Nigerian Temple?

I have long nursed a profound disquiet about the prospects and direction of Nigeria, but two recent encounters have crystallized for me the particular shape and depth of the country’s malaise...

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Operation Amotekun: An Experiment in Community Policing

In a nation where so much of the rich,...

The Missing or Shrinking Organ? No, It is Genital Retraction Syndrome

Within the African continent, contagions of the intellect, mass hysterias and crippling urban legends are common. In one country after another, there are confounding tales of everything...

Racism in Football: Sepp Blatter must quit. Blatter must go

If racism in sports, especially in football, is not halted, the World Cup in Brazil and the Olympic Games in Russia could face disruptions...

Getting It Right in 2011

I suspect that most Nigerians are almost exclusively riveted by the unfolding drama of who’s going to emerge president, by hook or crook, in next year’s election...

Where Love Has Gone

At some point it was even rumoured that Okey was possessed, and that he belonged to a secret money cult at whose insistence he was sleeping with the housemaids...