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...

Fr. Ejike Mbaka: When People Are Not Entitled To Their Opinions

When people air their opinions on vital issues or rebuke and admonish groups, individuals or politicians, the affected persons sometimes ignore or reply with...

Questions for Goodluck Jonathan and Muhammadu Buhari

Both the Peoples Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress appear to have settled on obfuscation as the name of the game in this...

Politics In a Time of Bankruptcy

In many nations, whenever it is felt that hard times have befallen a people, elections represent a real opportunity for contemplating a variety of...

Party Delegates: Another Venal Enterprise

As part of the electoral requirements before elections, political parties through their party delegates conduct primary elections in all the states to elect candidates...

A Problem with the Truth: Of Certificates and No Certificates

I am a bit lost, in fact more than lost. I am aghast at the inanity and lack of decorum being spread around by...

Nigeria’s Democracy, Its Electoral Process and the Journey so Far

After years of military coups and unsuccessful attempts to establish civilian rule, Nigeria eventually made another transition in 1999, with much expectation to end...

General Muhammadu Buhari: The Wind of Change

The wind is blowing, the wind Nigerians have always desired and dreamt of but vanishes at the break of dawn. Nigerians have never experienced...

Simple Needed Laws Nigerian Politicians Will Not Pass

What do you think is the main problem facing Nigeria? Yes, you are not the only that think so. Go to any part of Nigeria...

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Independence Day: Before the Celebrations

While we may not be able to correct the leadership errors of the past that have kept us in a state of doldrums and subnormality, we do have the opportunity to determine our future by addressing the national leadership of the present...

Rebel With A Cause…Soyinka As A Model For Inspiring Leadership

The achievements of Soyinka as a crusader and concerned citizen indict my generation for relegating to the background our civic responsibility of engaging those in leadership positions constructively...

When Change Becomes Inevitable

If you have been following recent happenings in our...

The Paradox Of Corruption And Patriotism

To say that the country called Nigeria is a conundrum is a gross understatement. To both its people and foreigners, it is a country that is, in its extremity, baffling, frustrating, annoying and uncivilised...

Thinking Aloud… Eighteen Words on Marble

The Nigerian government, in 2008, spent about 500 billion naira on security in the Niger Delta region. So far, in 2009, about the same amount has been spent – excluding the 300 billion that has been spent to bribe and pacify power-brokers and some sections of the Militant groups. What a dumb strategy!

Baroness Lynda Chalker Again

I must confess that I am becoming increasingly weary, sick and utterly disgusted by  the way and manner one British woman they call Baroness Lynda Chalker carelessly throws her totally unedifying and exasperating self and words into the affairs of my country...

Abuja: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria?

If you are ever asked to name the capital of Nigeria and you mention Abuja, I am afraid to tell you that you would be wrong because Abuja is not the capital of Nigeria...

Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa @ 82

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, famously known as Ken Saro-Wiwa, would...

End of the Ibori-Uduaghan siege in sight

Nigerians may not easily comprehend the theatre of absurdity that has been Delta State these past eleven years...