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...

Corruption and Buhari’s Perfect Storm

President-elect Muhammadu Buhari will inherit something of a perfect political storm when he takes office in a few weeks. He ran a well-orchestrated campaign...

APC Should Face The Real Issues

Recently, the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. John Oyegun, was quoted as saying that he was “sad” that his party could...

Looking for a Quick Fix? We must be kidding!

As we move closer to handover day to a brand new Federal Government of Nigeria on 29 May 2015, with a mixture of optimism...

State Assemblies, Impeachment Plots and the Boomerang Effects

The heavy defeat suffered by the ruling party, PDP in the just concluded general elections has taken its toll on the party and right...

The curious case of Ben Murray-Bruce

There is a fascinating metamorphosis going on amongst Nigerian elite that is worth of paying attention to. Like in the biological process wherein animals...

Buhari’s Major War

That the tasks before the incoming administration arrow headed by the overwhelming winner of the 2015 Presidential Poll, (Rtd) General Muhammadu Buhari, are gargantuan,...

Ndigbo: Architects of our Own Problems

As Ndigbo, we shouldn't pretend that all is well with us. Our house has fallen and the earlier we tell ourselves the bitter truth...

Living Dangerously and Looking at the Bigger Picture

Ever since Nigeria’s Independence in 1960 and becoming a Republic in 1963, the country seems to have been living on the edge; living dangerously,...

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The Rapture (1): Earnest Expectation of the Creature

Before the rapture, there is a way believers should live! Faith of our fathers is living still, no matter how men and ‘ministers’ wrest the scriptures. Jesus is coming very soon for His Church...

Conditions for Revolution In Nigeria

Iit is only history that will determine when, and the pattern, Nigeria’s revolution will take...

Lai Mohammed: An Unmanageable Mistake!

When President Muhammadu Buhari announced the people he has...

Speaking of Religion, Speaking of Women

I sometimes wonder if Nigerians didn’t “invent” religion, especially Christianity. On the exterior, they are more Catholic than the Pope, more pious than Vatican Saints...

Lessons from the US Bridge Collapse

According  to reports, it was like a script carved out of a Hollywood horror movie when suddenly, the bridge which had hitherto not shown any sign of being under distress went down...

Federal Republic of Fiction @ 63

The country’s Constitution has been transferred to a new...

The Damage Controller-in-Chief

George W. Bush knows that for him to win in November he needs to urgently address the three important "M" in American Politics, namely Money, Message and Momentum. He is aware he is currently losing the last two, but has more than won the first "M" which is cash...

This Jonathan must go

This Jonathan is made up of people who have so far shown themselves incapable of understanding or caring for Nigerians and the more they talk the worse they seem. For things to work again in Nigeria, this Jonathan must go. We must see a new Jonathan, one capable of listening to the many and standing up to the few...

Emerging Leaders And Citizens As Catalysts

The Obasanjo government may have laid the foundation for a new Nigeria, rescuing it from the claws of military oligarchs in 1999, but now is the time to move on...

The Colour of Dilemma: Dilemma of Colour

Dilemmas come in different shapes and magnitude; yet some are simply ridiculous and difficult to understand...