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...

How Complicit are the Accountant and Auditor Generals in the Looting of Our Treasury?

One of our problems as a people, as a society, is our intrinsic inability to be sincere, even with ourselves, and from this derives...

APC: Continuity or Change?

APC was formed as a progressive political party. But happenings since the inauguration of the party on May 29, 2015 suggest that there may...

The Harvest Season Is Here

In the aftermath of the inauguration of the 6th democratically elected president of Nigeria, the pandering predilections that heralded the outcome of the presidential...

Towards a Sociocratic Change in Nigeria: Freeing Nigeria from Ideological Bondage

This is a treatise on sociocratic change as a more humane and enduring system of governance. It will free us from ideological bondage, as...

Ex-Gov Chime, That Was Mean!

Recently, I was jolted by a report I stumbled upon about the brutal abduction, terrorisation and illegal detention of a hapless young man in...

Buhari: Hitting the Ground Lurching

Muhammad Buhari has been campaigning, running for the office of the President of Nigeria since 2003. That is a long time - twelve years...

Nigeria 2015 Revolution: History Rewritten; Future Reassured?

The revolutionary election of March 28th, 2015, that produced president Buhari as winner was a bloodless and silent revolution. This revolution was carried out...

Muhammadu Buhari: Perfect is the Enemy of Good

By the time you read this, you should have seen President Muhammadu Buhari’s list of ministerial and Special Advisers nominations. If not, then welcome...

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Bukola Saraki’s Palace in London: One Sacred Cow Too Many!

Dr. Bukola Saraki was elected the Executive Governor of Kwara State in 2003. He replaced his father's former political godson, Mohammed Lawal. The later had fallen out with Bukola's father, and therefore, had to be shown the door...

Grow Rich While You Sleep!

A lot of folks sleep for upwards of eight hours in a day. By the time they're sixty, they'd have slept for 20 years! Here's how to use the sleep state to become richer

Tony Anenih: An Analysis

Politics as seen around the world is sometimes not an honorable man’s game. It is a dirty game...Anenih brings a new dimension to politics by reframing how the game is played...

Ending the scourge of poverty in Nigeria

One is saddened by the current constitutional impasse occasioned by the lingering ill-health of President Yar’adua and the spiralling effects of this on the entrenchment of good governance and the eradication of poverty in Nigeria...

Prosperity, Eternity (13): Old Testament Saints had Bosoms

We cannot entertain angels if we are living in sealed houses. We cannot if only those we harbor in our homes are our ‘loved ones’ and our close friends. Learn to harbor missionaries, the persecuted believers, the physically-challenged, orphans and the others who are in need...

Was Jega’s Appointment as INEC Chairman A Mistake?

It is part of the Nigerian condition that our yesterday has a way of being better than our today. Otherwise who will ever think that in less than two months of being INEC Chairman, Jega seems to be already making Maurice Iwu look good?

Overtime

We have mastered the environment. The environment is Shylockian. The environment is clear and perfect, but we are not benefiting from it.  The environment is helpful, but those we met on board are not helpful...

Have Some Christians Truly Cornered the Market on Goodness?

Like many other people, I have my fair share of questions about everything from the creation of the universe to why we exist as human beings. I will continue to question, but I refuse to throw my hands up and attribute anything to a supreme being...

There Was A Man Called John Jerry Rawlings

Nigeria is more divided than ever, and the politicians...

Shadow Government

Damn our "leaders" if they like it, damn them if they don't. The people have spoken. Enough of power vacuum, near constitutional crisis and over heating of the polity all due to the fact that the ruling party does not trust the Vice President...