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...

Biafra Zionism: Implications for National Security

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.  -John F. Kennedy The increasing wave of agitations by pro-Biafra groups for the...

Buhari: The Sheriff and the National Thieves

The arrival of the new Sheriff in town is sending shivers down the spines of the conglomeration of thieves who sucked the nation's treasury...

Biafra Zionism and the National Question

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,...

Whispers of Our President In Washington

By many, if not most, accounts, President Muhammadu Buhari’s visit to the United States was a major personal triumph and represented a significant turn...

Winning the fight against corruption

President Buhari has made the fight against corruption one of his key priorities as he settles in for the task of nation building in...

Mr. President, Remember History; Do Not Repeat It

When Murtala Muhammed became Nigeria’s third military Head of State on 29 July 1975, he won a place in the people’s hearts with an...

The Northern Domination Brouhaha

Ever since President Buhari was inaugurated as the president of the emerging Nigeria, some indecorous critics have taken it upon themselves to be fighting...

Cognitive Therapy for Buhari’s Traducers

I hereby take the liberty to share with you excerpts of a lengthy interview I granted someone who, for the purpose of this page,...

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Buhari: Biting the Bullet!

President Muhammadu Buhari is living up to the status...

Anthony Bourdain: In Memoriam

Just read that Anthony Bourdain has joined his ancestors.  He...

Team Nigeria: A Perspective

Events of the recent past, have demonstrated the immutable fact that Nigerians need national unity, and for that purpose, Nigerians urgently must jettison petty family squabbles...

How to Help EFCC Succeed

Benue State has clearly demonstrated why Nigeria needs the EFCC as an external Federal agency to investigate cases of graft, cronyism, conversion and outright looting of public resources...

Journeys to Owo and Benin City

Life is a journey. And all of the men and women who traverse its length and breadth are merely sojourners...

Strategic Factors and Options: The Credibility of the Ijaw Nation

The lack of political responsibility, accountability,  transparency, development and performance, in terms of delivering goods and services to the people is leading to questions, both internally and externally, about the capability of Ijaw political leaders to captain the ship of development and modernization…

Environmental Hazards Management: The Role of Stakeholders

The role of individuals, communities and non-governmental organisations as environmental ‘guards’ at local levels should be considered as an important ingredient of our enforcement regime...

Ayo Fayose: The Audacity of Impunity!

Among the 36 Governors in Nigeria one stands out...

Are Some Nigerians’ Psyche Damaged?

I have observed over an extended period of time that a good number of Nigerians are self critical, a tad too self-critical, to such extent that at first glance, this attitude could be taken as self-loathing...

Agents Of Satan Now In Abia

Abia State has become the devil’s den with daylight robberies, killings and kidnappings. The state has become a free for all place for killers and armed robbers...