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...

A Message to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the President-Elect

"People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible" - US Supreme Court Justice, Sonia Sotomayor. On behalf of all...

10 Reasons Why the APC Will Win Oyo Gubernatorial Race

I was a proud witness and participant in the historic election victory that has now ushered the All People's Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Gen...

2-4 Zone: Now That the Pendulum Has Swung In Buhari’s Corner…

The majority of Nigerians have spoken. Buhari is the new president-elect. He is not my flavor of the month. Never was, as anyone who has...

Dear Corruption!

How are you? It’s absurd to say Hello. You were always here; you, the incessant overbearing contrived bully. It’s impossible for me to deduce when...

Shoki for Change: Once Upon a Time

Oh little flower, can I touch? The air is cool and princely so, That one’s frame glides through, Like a piece of fine cake no one can...

PDP: Victim of Own Impunity

This piece, "PDP Victim Of Own Impunity", was first published November last year and the need to re-publish it became necessary following the defeat...

Open Letter To President-Elect Muhammadu Buhari

Your Excellency Sir, Let me quickly jump in front of the oncoming bandwagon in offering my congratulations. I know you do not have too much...

Welcome to Sociocracy: Against AK-47 Democracy in Nigeria

It is the Western man and not the African that owes allegiance to Greek orthodoxy and so the rightful inheritor of Greek political values...

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Who Said Our Leaders Are Corrupt?

To date, our leaders determinedly continue to trivialize the madness of financial misappropriation and the long-term harm and hurt it unleashes on the destiny of Nigeria.  This wild-fire menace and monstrous cascade continues unhindered...

Femi Fani-Kayode’s Tangled Web (Part 2)

Modern cities thrive on integration, not excluivism. If Yoruba residents in Owerri are hounded by the Imo State government I will condemn it. Lagos is not ‘no man’s land.’ Every inhabitable land on earth is owned by man...

A Criminal is on the Loose

There is something about Governor Alamieyeseigha’s great escape from London that just doesn’t sound right. That an accused can just board a transatlantic flight without the Nigerian and British immigration and security services knowing about it is simply perplexing...

What Truly Is Religion?

These days, even to define exactly what truly is religion, is no longer as easy as it sounds...

Plan C For The President

Every Nigerian who loves democracy, and loves our dear president even more should arise now and fight for the great defender of the Olowu dynasty, the mighty warrior of Otta. He doesn’t deserve this humiliation, after all that he has done for Nigeria....

Change We Can Believe In

I have always viewed Nigeria as a mere geographical expression, a North and South joined together by an umbilical cord called United Kingdom, an umbilical cord which has since cut itself off and left us to our perils...

Who Will “History” Honor?

Obasanjo by virtue of history and opportunity should stand tall among all Nigerian past leaders if he did right by the people...

Ogboru, Uduaghan’s Poor Rejoinder and this Writer

It won’t be long before these Ibori-Uduaghan boys know the cost of sycophancy and what it means to create the Augean stable they have created in Delta while living in sickening opulence. I write that Delta may be free...

Nigerian Bankers and The Times

Now that Sanusi is wielding the big stick, how sad to see yesterday’s banking big boys and girls looking towards the sky for some indication of what tomorrow holds. On a regular basis in the dailies, speculations are rife about looming mass sack in the banking halls...

Do You Have Regrets…or Disappointments?

What are your regrets or disappointments? What would you do differently? Are you happy with life and happy with yourself? Or perhaps you need more time and more opportunities to do this and that and everything that slipped through your fingers...