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...

The 2015 Elections: There May Be Another Country

The tension is palpable. Naked fear walks through the land unchallenged, waylaying people at every turn. While a deadly group of religious bigots has...

Give Us This Day Strong Institutions

It’s all but clear that Nigerians, including highly educated ones, won’t shake from their position that the 2015 elections come down to two parties,...

(Mis)Understanding The Buhari Factor

I am not one of Buhari’s fans; not one of his baying cult followers, but I have to concede that the man’s stock is...

Wake Me up When the Voting Is Over

On Thursday the 5th day of February, 2015 I was among those invited by the American Corner in Abuja to be part of the...

How Political Wayorism Stultifies Democracy

Delinquent political leaders like Idi Amin, Jean Bokkasa, Mobutu Sese Sekou, Laurent Gbagbo, Pol Pot, Adolf Hitler, Heinrick Verwoerd, Augustino Pinochet,   Blaise Campore, were...

2015 Elections: Political Psychiatry and Infantile Disorder

In 2007, I flew from Beijing to the Lauterpacht Center for International Law, University of Cambridge, England. I re-read Darwin’s Evolutionary theory. The recent political events...

Nigeria Has “Nakeded” Itself

Last week, representatives of Nigeria’s political parties and its electoral commission met in Abuja. At the end of a marathon meeting, Attahiru Jega of...

INEC and the PDP: Playing with Fire

In the end, the ugly rumours proved spot on. For one reason or the other, Jonathan and his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)...

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The Aches and Pains of Explaining Nigeria

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Will Posterity be Fair to President Buhari?

One of the maxims of equity stipulates that, "one...

The 21st Century Christian Brand

The contemporary brand of Christianity in Nigeria is in dire need of re-branding. We need to face reality and accept the fact that we have failed to meet our own expectations and that of the wider society...

Toni Kan Strikes 50 With Panache

It was fun at first sight. The first time I...

Alemu: The imprisoned and exploited Ethiopian journalist

She was arrested on June 21, 2011 from the school that she taught and was oppressed before she was thrown into the prison. She was later charged with arson and teaching and organizing terrorism...

Support Dr.Jonathan, To Move Nigeria Forward!

Which way Nigeria has to go will depend essentially on the choice Nigerians make of the political situation, their policies and their leaders...

S.O.S! Bring Back Sani Abacha!

I am thinking that when the soldiers come back to loot, er, rule, we now have something to keep them in line. If they start misbehaving and stealing, we will say to them, if you are not careful, we will invite the pro-democracy movement back to Aso Rock! Heh! Heh! Heh! Heh! That should put the fear of God in their thieving heads! I still have my placards...

TRUESAID – Shaping democracy for betta Nigeria (Part 1)

 The trouble with Nigeria is simply arrogance of power based on complete lack of accountability from its leaders. All else - corruption, traffic jams, police brutality etc, etc are simply details of these...

How To Be A Journalist

No matter who you are as a journalist, you are very, very dispensable. And because of your dispensable status quo, you find that you may have to change jobs every now and then...

Dealing With The Chibuike Amaechi Migraine

However one sees it, the escalating, man-made crisis in Rivers State portends real and grave danger to the dysfunctional democracy we have been slaving under for the past fourteen years...