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...

Beyond 2015: Discard Illusions, Embrace Visions

After the large turn-out of Nigerian  voters clamouring for change, it has become clear that the political and legal underpinnings of our under-development  has...

From Change of Government to Change In Governance

In a recently published interview he granted the Vanguard Newspaper, ace columnist and social commentator, Dr Femi Aribisala expressed his candid views on the...

What We All Owe Buhari

Muhammadu Buhari’s triumph over Goodluck Jonathan in the March 28, 2015 presidential election has unleashed a fever of hope in Nigeria. Everywhere I turn,...

Seyi Makinde: The Muddled “Fresh Water” of Oyo State Politics?

It started out as a great idea for Engr. Seyi Makinde; the grand design that would see him clinching the top position in Oyo...

Building Peace In Nigeria: The Post-Jonathan Years

Nigeria’s Presidential Election have come and gone with all the apprehension and fireworks that accompanied it. After a very intense battle that pitched the...

Dying For Nothing in Nigeria

During the governorship and states’ houses of assembly elections that took place in Nigeria last Saturday (April 11, 2015), several persons reportedly died across...

Let My People Go! Ending the Impunities of the PDP Era

The dust is finally settling on a new reality in Nigeria, as we the people have finally seized the moment and decided that enough...

Ndigbo: The Cost of Putting All Our Eggs in One Basket

In every decision or action one undertakes in life, there's a reason. But what I’m yet to understand up till this moment is the...

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For Jonathan: “Acting” or “Action” President?

Irrespective of what you think of the man Jonathan, one has to admit that he is indeed a lucky man. Who gets to be Governor, Vice President and now President by an unquestionable streak of luck?

Mr. President, Abject Poverty Lives Here!

How are a great people laid so low and wasted, and made to wear the shame of their enslavement and impoverishment with unconscious dignity...

Dr Umelobi Ihekweazu, Physician and gentleman – 1932-2007

Last week, the news came of the death of Dr Umelobi Ihekweazu, retired physician and former Deputy Director of Medical Services at the University of Nigeria where I had grown up. The news came as a shock...

More Pastors May Die At Igbo Funerals

Whatever the sons of late Pa Oji Okoko are saying, the in-thing is that they disappointed their father in death no matter who they said was it that persuaded them against his wish that Christian burial should not be conducted for him...

The Title Of My Book Is The Opposite Of Things Fall Apart

"Our country, like many others, has a long history of emotional violence and literature exposes this, because unlike the history books and the journals, literature chronicles emotions - Sefi Atta"

Nigeria’s Dark, Bloody October

If anybody needed some dire sign that Nigeria has little to show for the first fifty years of its life, a particularly disturbing and bloody one was given last Friday...

Crimson Dynamics: Taking the blood issue seriously

The issues relating to blood transfusion are vast but it is disturbing that medical experts are not doing enough to get Nigerians informed of such delicate issues...

The art of throwing money away

It’s always deeply painful when Africa achieves another distinction in the wrong sector. This time, it’s in the foolish art of throwing money away!

Local, State And Ethnic Sovereign Conferences (2)

The present Federal Government of Nigeria is an inherited political force of occupation. That unitary system of administration favoured by the military and the feudal lords was a cruel imposition that came first from the British Colonial Office and lately from the military prodigal sons of Nigeria...

Jonathan’s hat already in the ring for 2015

The relationship between the president and the governors has not been very cordial. During the burial of his younger brother last year in Bayelsa, the governors did not show up...