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...

Nigeria, Going Back To 1983…?

The year 1983 was truly a significant year in the history of mankind. It was an epoch making year - January 1 to be...

How To Keep Nigeria One In 2015

This article is, to a great extent, inspired by the interview with the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Reverend Father Matthew Hassan Kukah, published in...

My Sincere Apology to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari

I want to use this medium to unequivocally apologize on behalf of the good people of Ekiti State to Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and the...

Goodluck Jonathan or Muhammadu Buhari? (2)

Contrary to the mirth some later day revisionists peddle around these days, Buhari was very active in the coup that ousted the Shagari democratic...

Nigeria: Campaigns of Religion and Ethnicity

Politics is the soul of leadership and the art of government. It is a game with many colours that has outlived generations and has...

Nigerians will not get their Buhari

For the first time in my life I am finding it very, very hard to write. This intellectual anaemia has nothing to do with...

Goodluck Jonathan or Muhammadu Buhari? (1)

Happy New Year, everyone. Well, the biggest game in town this year is the February 14 presidential election. The choices are stark I’m afraid...

How Gen. Muhammadu Buhari Will Defeat Boko Haram

Upon assuming office in May this year, General Muhammadu Buhari will place a call to the President of Niger Republic - Mahamadou Issoufou –...

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Vivid Notes On Sam Egwu

This piece is about an uncommon fellow, a man popularly known for his political savvy, calm disposition and undisguised love for humanity.  This man is Dr. Sam Egwu who turned fifty-four on June 20, 2008...

Men Are Like Cars

Men are like cars.  Some days you wake up, enter your car and just drive off. On other days, you cannot help but wonder the point of having a car…

Spineless GEJ Learnt Nothing from Brutish OBJ: What a Shame!

No matter what you thought of Olusegun Obasanjo’s leadership of the country and the PDP, you almost wished that OBJ was back in charge; for he had a strong spine. I cannot imagine ANY governor walking out on OBJ...

2012: Cries From An Icy Wilderness

The year 2011 was a very bad year for the world economic order. At last, the Europeans discovered that they do not live alone on planet earth. They began to see clearly that their own truths about how the earth should conduct its economic affairs should not be left to their experts alone...

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...

Jordan: The £30million Boobs

Katie Price, iconically known as Jordan, always presents me with a moral dilemma. Is it really chic to flash your chesty asset in people's faces and live and be proud of the proceeds of such shameless perversion?

One Nation, Separate Justice

There has been selective judicial prosecution in Nigeria even when and where there is a glaring infringement of fundamental rights and objectives of good goverance. That is why it is not uncommon for Nigerians to resort to extra-ordinary means to resolve a simple case of civil breach...