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...

Buhari Should Adopt “Agu” Strategy

One of the joys of being a columnist is to occasionally receive a remarkably cogent response to one of my pieces. Sometimes, the response...

The Two Categories of Nigerian Politicians

According to Bum Philips, the late American football coach: "There are two categories of coaches, those that are fired and those that will be...

Senate Passes Bills in a Hurry: An Anomalous Legislative Rascality

Lawyers and historians  are not likely to forget this legislative rascality for a long time. When a nation relies on alalus homos, semi-literates with...

War Crimes? Not Nigerian Military

It just cannot be true that the Nigerian military engaged in human rights abuses against captured Boko Haram suspected fighters. Nigerian military officers, like...

Buhari’s Path to History

President Muhammadu Buhari’s inauguration last week was a mixed bag. On the plus side, the president gave an inaugural speech that—despite a few wrinkles—was...

Between a Head of State and a President

On May, 29th, 2015, at the famous Eagle Square, Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, Muhammadu Buhari, the victorious candidate of the All Progressive Congress...

This House Has Fallen

The title of this piece, "This House Has Fallen", was the title of Karl Maier's book, a USA journalist, written in 2000 about the...

What the Government Owes the People

Now that the campaigns and elections are over and the winners have been sworn in at both the federal and state levels, I think...

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A Report on the Pauperization of the Masses in Nigeria

There are many political opportunists who do not wish to jeopardize their chances of appointments to ministerial posts, so they keep quiet and watch the decline. These Nigerian tragedians, excelling in gravitas, will soon join the army of ex-this and ex-that...

The Tragedy of Bayelsa State’s Unending Electoral Cycle

Rumbles, side-talks, murmuring, sighs and more. I was suddenly...

Betrayers

Persons have oftentimes been betrayed by those that they held in high esteem. Relationships between friends, wives and husbands, parents and children have always been battered on the altar of betrayal...

As The Nigerian Oil Sector Rots In Induced Quagmire

Come to think of it, as at the time I wrote, the House of Representatives Committee headed by Farouk Lawan  established the payment of a hefty N3 trillion as phantom subsidy to sundry crooks and felons; all of whom enjoyed unimpeded favour with and access to the presidency...

A Nuclear-Free World: Prospects and Problems

While the League of Nations had an elaborate mechanism for disarmament, the United Nations, which has been under the influence of powerful states that patronize arms manufacturers have not been very willing to deal with both moral disarmament and general disarmament…

Nigeria at 51: An Elegy to A Frustrating Country

I normally don’t join in celebrating Nigeria’s Independence Day anywhere I am in the world; at least not since the late 70s. I also do not write the usual piece analyzing our problems and preferring solutions...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! Part 8

The Niger Deltans should not be naive nor have any illusion as regards to a new ministry set up by Yar'Adua and the criminals surrounding him. Suffice to say that the ministry is as good as the official paper that was used to type its creation...

Who Wants to Elect Judges & Justices?

 Part of the result of the invasion of the...

Anywhere But Here

Two months ago in a flat in Festac town I met Calistus for the first time. A third year engineering student from University of Benin, we had similar tastes in music, films and women. He had been denied a Schengen Visa third time running...

Social Housing in Nigeria – An Imminent Mass Housing Revolution?

Nigeria is yet to develop a vibrant housing and mortgage market, social and affordable housing policies, and housing continues to be provided through tortuous traditional methods of buying land and building over some years...