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...

For the Avoidance of Doubt: Time and Tide wait for No one

During the weekly review of Nigerian affairs by the AZATA/NEPU Party of honest, patriotic and thinking Nigerian men and women, the following observations were...

Who Is Nigeria’s Conscience?

Nigerians are very good at crowning false heroes. Just open a Nigerian newspaper you can find near you and see how many people that...

I Love (virtually) “Empty Treasuries”…but Only if…

If my leaders tell me the "treasury is (virtually) empty" and I look around me and across the country, and I see progress and...

Buhari’s War On Terror

What I can pledge, with absolute certainty, is that from the first day of my administration, Boko Haram will know the strength of our...

Patience for President Muhammadu Buhari

“ The Devil takes a hand in what is done in a hurry’’ – Turkish Proverb I had the privilege some few years back-around 2009...

A Letter to Malam

Dear Malam, Congratulation on your well deserved victory as the next executive governor of this great ‘state of learning’. Your coming, I must confess, was...

National Assembly: A House Divided Against Itself

There's an idiom, "a house divided against itself cannot stand," and as it stands, All Progressive Congress (APC) the party Nigerians entrusted with power...

Change is never a Creation or Monopoly of any Party!

Or (Why The Noise? Buhari is not the Best in Nigeria) “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change...

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The Russians Are Already In Nigeria! EFCC, SSS, Nigerian Business Men Be On Alert! (2)

In the opinion of this author, most Nigerian business men know very little about Russia and do not conduct a due diligence of Russian companies and business men that they intend to do business with...

IBB: Letter from a Nigerian Youth

With due respect sir, you do not have to be in Aso Rock to make a difference that you failed to make after eight solid years in power. If anything, your conformation of interest to rule the country again is heating up the polity...

Repositioning Nigerian economy for growth (3)

Nigeria should seek some unconventional solutions to tackling its power problem. The most plausible way to putting the present power problem behind us is to seek sovereign loans from countries like China, using the country's oil reserves as strategic collateral...

The True Nature of the Private Sector in Nigeria

Many ‘private sector’ outfits in Nigeria are actually owned by public officers, their relations or fronts. This creates the impression that such organisations are extensions of the public sector and makes it difficult to know, in real terms, what constitutes the ‘public sector’ and ‘private sector’, respectively, in Nigeria...

Atiku is falling apart

While as Vice President, Atiku believed that he had no job other than what was assigned to him by the President Obasanjo to do then, but he was seen to be controversial and was believed to be the most powerful second-in-command that the nation has had...

Evangelical Rascality and the Fallacy of Faith Apologetics in Nigeria

One of the cardinal issues strangulating religious harmony in Nigeria is the deliberate and sometimes ignorance-propelled fanaticism that has eaten deep into the psyche of some faithful both within Christendom and Islam, the two major religions in Nigeria...

Ekiti: Time to silence the guns (1)

Thank God Ekiti school children and their teachers who...

The insensitivity called fuel subsidy removal

Following sober Christmas celebrations in some parts of the country, the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan delivered a frightening New Year gift to Nigerians in the name of fuel subsidy removal...

When Obasanjo & Uba Brothers Dealt with Anambra State

In the halcyon days of his regime, President Olusegun...

Ekpoma-Benin-Auchi Road Failure Shame on Edo Politicians

Dictionary definition of hell is that it a place...