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...

IGP Suleiman Abba’s Gaffe and Many Unanswered Questions

The withdrawal of police details of Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, Speaker, House of Representatives, by the Inspector General of Police, (IGP) Suleiman Abba, on Thursday,...

When last did Amaechi travel to Oyigbo

In 2011, Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State took the bull by the horn in Obigbo, Oyigbo Local Government Area of the state, by...

200 Days in Captivity: Open Letter to the Chibok Girls

My Chibok Sisters, I am forcing back tears as I write this letter considering the agony you all are facing daily. Friday, 31st October 2014, makes...

Power Must Change Hands – Or Must It?

Anyone familiar with the spiritual thunderings of the colourfully and gloriously named Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries (MFM) will recognise the above quote,...

Nigeria 2015: Presidential Elections and Beyond

The need for a “new modern, united and prosperous Nigeria” of the 21st century demands leaders that are God fearing, passionate about people and...

Peter Obi’s Defection: Wider Issues For The Igbos’ Political Survival

Anambra State, indeed the entire Eastern Nigeria and certainly the entire country, was fortunate to have a governor of Peter Gregory Obi’s calibre. I...

N27.5 Million APC Forms: Buhari Unravels

Late last week (Thursday, October 16, 2014), the All Progressives Congress (APC) startled decent Nigerians when its national chairman, Mr. John Odigie-Oyegun, announced that...

David Mark’s Phony Amendments!

It is always as if in Nigeria, one can count on a couple of things; that the David Mark led Senate will always abet...

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Before the National Dialogue Begins…

A political cultist group emerged after military rule. A man-made god reverence dominated our political space, whereby a few men dictated their subject ideas about how Nigeria must be governed...

Sanitizing the Electoral Process in Nigeria (1)

By it’s impractical provisions, the Electoral Act 2006 creates a lacuna, a window for electoral offenders to evade justice...

Should Edo Generate only N2.8billion IGR Monthly or more?

A news report on the front page of The...

Transforming Ibadan – A Case-study in Resistance To Change

It amuses me to hear people asking the Government of Oyo State to provide alternatives to people whose illegal structures are being demolished. Why should the government be responsible for providing alternatives, when the Government never allocated these land or shops to them in the first place?

Tell Them Freedom, Mr President!

The Ogidigborigbo of Oghara, James Onanefe Ibori, the kleptocratic...

Is Col. Abubakar Umar A Dark Horse For Aso Rock in 2011? – Part 2

Although much of Colonel Umar’s time since his departure from the armed forces has been spent in the company of ostriches, he has not shown any signs of mimicking their innate disposition of digging their heads in the sand...

Governor Makinde’s Assets Declaration

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Once in a while, things do fall apart

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Nigeria and Biafra’s Wasted Memory

A contemptible, uncreative elite, its obsession with conspicuous consumption matched by its inability to produce anything of value, has overseen Nigeria’s obscene, record-setting squandermania...

Sex and the Catholic Church (2)

The Church has no more credible reason to hold on to her prohibition of condoms. Onanism, on which the prohibition rests probatur ex scriptura is a blatant ignorance of the findings of science. It is not sperm that gives human life. It is the union of sperm and ovum...