Nigeria Matters

Osun election: Between hope and fear

Hope springs eternal, and with elections just days away to determine the next governor of Osun State, we should strive to keep the hope...

President Tinubu’s Recent Lines of War

President Bola Tinubu recently set Nigeria’s political spaces on fire by declaring that “all is fair in politics”. According to the president, killing, cheating,...

Dìbò k’ó se’bẹ̀ and the raw reality of politics (2)

As Adlai Stevenson Jr. famously observed, “A hungry man is not a free man.” This truth conveniently haunts our troubled polity, where politicians tend...

Pastor Adeboye and the Rhetoric of Politics

I have always been fascinated by the evident but veiled alignment between religion and politics. This complex intersection is effectively dramatized by American-born English...

BAO2BAO… and God answered! (2)

To begin with, the messages that flowed in after last Saturday’s publication reflect widespread public support for Oyebanji’s reelection. Virtually all the readers who...

Akara, Corn, And Kuli-kuli: All Hail Remi Tinubu

The recent nationwide outrage against Nigeria’s First Lady, Mrs Oluremi Tinubu, affirms that Nigerians are ungrateful people. Instead of them to grovel, prostrate, and...

When A Nation Can Fund Everything Except Its Future

There is a peculiar tragedy that unfolds in Nigeria every day. It is not announced on television. It is not declared by the President....

BAO2BAO… and God answered! – (1)

Congratulations to Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji, aka BAO, on his expected comfortable margin at last Saturday’s Ekiti State governorship election. Congratulations are also in...

From Empowerment To Survival: Are We Setting The Bar Too Low For Nigerian Women?

By any measure, Nigeria is facing one of its toughest economic periods in decades. Inflation has remained high, food prices have surged, and millions...

Bola Ahmed Tinubu & Oluremi Tinubu: A Match Made In Heaven—A Husband And Wife Who Think Alike And Read From The Same Script

There is an old saying that successful marriages are built on shared values. If that is the standard, then President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and...

The Ekiti And Enugu Elections: As 2027 Approaches

Do you remember Ola Rotimi? He was the literary genius who masterfully adapted Sophocles’ Oedipus the King in one of the greatest literary Magnum...

Don't miss

What People Think About HIV/AIDS

HIV/AIDS is gaining ground intensely in Nigeria today because children do not teach their parents, peers, relatives...

Sex Abuses: Imagine If the Abuses Were by Imams, Muslims?

The pope and the Catholic Church have resorted to blaming the victims and the critics who have expressed appropriate indignation over the sex crimes against children, an abomination and sin in any religion...

A President and his Almajiris

The intervention of President Jonathan in an educational matter that falls within the purview of local government and the states seem like populist intervention. Given also that billions of Naira earmarked to fight the syndrome have ended up in private pockets in the North for over a decade...

Oju Elegba

What has evolved to become a main stay, a household name, and a popular town in Nigeria, is not without its roots...

The Poisoned Chalice

The cold-blooded slaughtering of Nigerians that took place in kaduna is a common feature of a society of slaves. No power on earth can use free men and women for such mayhem…

Relevance of Elections to Representative Governments

It is not enough for us to assume the...

Femi Fani-Kayode’s Tangled Web (Part 1)

Fani-Kayode wrote that the Igbo introduced tribalism in Southern Nigerian politics. He capitalised on the statements of Charles Daddy Onyeama and Nnamdi Azikiwe to buttress this charge. Onyeama allegedly declared that it was only a matter of time before the Igbo dominated Nigeria and Africa...

Desiring A Heart Of Worship

Though entertainment has become one of the biggest industries worldwide, and that for obvious reasons, but a couple of 'concerned' Christians feel the church should focus more on meeting the spiritual needs of people...

A Nation without Heroes?

Every country on earth has men and women who lived their lives in the service of their country. Every country remembers, reveres, worships and celebrates their heroes - every country but Nigeria!

Abia State and the Governance of a Little Mind

In any organised environment, it behooves the government to be concerned with the good affairs of its citizens, but Orji-led government sees this as the last principle of a sustainable development. The government has continued to build hope without anything to show for it...