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...

Season of Letters: Governor Okorocha as a Case Study

As the 2015 general election draws near, we have seen and read series of open letters written by Journalists, critics, analysts, party faithfuls, friends...

The Buhari Re-Emergence and some Implications for Nigeria

Shortly after the coup of December 1983 in Nigeria, in which the seemingly no-nonsense duo of General Muhammadu Buhari and General Babatunde Idiagbon took...

Politicians are Ready; Are the People Ready?

The primaries are over. Some politicians are happy. Many more are grieving and recovering from the shock of losing. That is their world; they...

A Crooked State Of Emergency

Well, I used to think that only the All Progressives Congress (APC) is exploiting and cynically looking to profit from the Boko Haram impasse. ...

Witch Airways and other Sad Tales

Let me warn you, reader, in advance: If you have a squeamish constitution, please do not read this piece. Just stop here and flee,...

Fighting Terrorism in Nigeria: Evolving a Homegrown Strategy

Since the onset of the ongoing insurgency in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria, spearheaded by the fundamentalist Islamist sect, Boko Haram (Western Education is...

Nigeria, A Darkening Time

Visiting Nigeria in mid-November, I became aware that the country was going through darkening times. The choice of adjective—darkening—is rather advised. For several decades,...

PDP, APC, what’s the Difference?

With just a month or two left for us to go to the polls to elect those who would determine our future in the...

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Essays from Exile: The Oporoko Chronicles!

Acting on the advice of my lawyers, I don’t take lunch to work anymore. I do miss chomping on cow foot, ox tail and stockfish at lunch time. I don’t know what it is about the fragrance of stockfish that drives ordinarily reasonable Americans insane…

2015 Presidential Election Outcome: A Threat To Nigeria’s Unity In Diversity

Our democracy is being tested. It consistently undergoes constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions. In the process, ideas battles with ideal...

Buhari And Fashola’s Legacy Of Killer Roads

This fateful Friday of 28th July 2023, a heavy...

Mark my words, Nigeria and Africa shall be free

What will it take to free Nigeria? Can one man do it? Can we do it together? Should the will of the majority be held perpetually in bondage by the tyranny of a thieving minority?

Reflections on Generations without a Future and Their Slide into Cultural Illiteracy

A generation has grown up in Europe in which a “feral underclass” is sliding into hate-based, racist-driven cultural illiteracy. As victims of cultural degeneracy, hooked on the hip-up mind-set, the young people of Europe are on down-ward slide...

The Fate Of Nigeria

Why is Nigeria in spite of its endowment in human and material resources continuing to wallow in political turmoil and economic depression?

Nigeria's National Interests: A Moratorium And Change Of Tactics

The best kept secret about Nigeria is simply the fact that Nigerians are much more tolerant of the cultures, the religion, region and ethnicities of all others, when the economy is good. This should inform us, that the poor state of our national economy has done so much to exacerbate divisiveness that is now present in our society...

The Shari’a: Insult The Prophet And Be Killed

Sections 38 and 39 of the Federal Republic of...

Just Like Abe Lincoln…Dr. Alex Ekwueme

Like Abe Lincoln, Ekwueme is humble, unassuming, a dedicated family man, quiet. And like Abe, Ekwueme has deeply thinking eyes and a forehead that speaks of great wisdom...

Elected Representatives: Servants or Masters?

“Not to know what happened before you were born...