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...

A Choice Election: Buhari and Fashola’s presidential ticket

The best president Nigeria never had was Late Chief Obafemi Awolowo who in his quintessential wisdom had vibrant and genuine vision for Nigeria. Nigerians were denied...

Jailing Their “Excellencies”

A piece of heartening political news came out of Nigeria last week. No, it was not the Federal Government’s proclamation last Friday that it had...

The Oba of Lagos Confessional

Once in a while, we all feel the need to go into our inner self. This act of introspection can sometimes lead to quite...

The Nigerian Police and Opposition of Government

The clamour for the creation of state police by state governors and civil society groups wouldn't have been an issue in recent years if...

PDP Needs To Tell Nigerians What It Knows About Boko Haram

In a country where the citizenry do not ask hard questions, one can commit blue murder and walk away with it. In some cases,...

Governor Amaechi’s inability to enforce ban on street hawking

Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s Rivers State is with about 90 percent of its residents living beneath poverty line. Doubtlessly, this could have necessitated the reason the state...

2015: Nigerians are again hearing sugar-coated manifestoes

Nigerian politicians are hyping 2015 with many of them recently picking up forms for different elective positions from their different political parties. This move is being...

Why GEJ May Still Lose in 2015

The consensus among the pundits is that the outcome of 2015 elections is a foregone conclusion for the current administration of Goodluck Jonathan. The...

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The Era of Negativism

The press is now immersed in photographing men and women in order to expose their nudity. The serpents of illusions are crawling over the world...

How to Help EFCC Succeed

Benue State has clearly demonstrated why Nigeria needs the EFCC as an external Federal agency to investigate cases of graft, cronyism, conversion and outright looting of public resources...

Jonathan and Dame Patience Goodluck, Change and the Burden of History

It is evident that revisionist politics of blackmail and the use of deceit to cover up facts of history underlie Jonathan Goodluck’s attempts at becoming...

A Tribute to Irresponsible Dog Owners

Did you know that pet waste left on sidewalks, yards, streets and other places can be transported by rainwater via storm drains into streams, lakes, rivers and other waterways? Did you know that doggie doodie may contain harmful bacteria such as E.Coli and Salmonella which can cause disease in humans?

Lagos is speaking, who is listening?

Our notes will be incomplete if we do not pause to invite some reflections upon the recently concluded Local Government elections that took place in Lagos, the economic and financial capital of Nigeria...

Benedictine Candour, Aggressive Secularism and Atheistic Extremism in the World

The State and pastoral visits of the Pope to various parts of Britain signify an ecumenical restoration of Britain to the path of imminent holy vibrations and critical speed towards an ecumenical cooperation with the Vatican...

Beware the Resurgence of the Men of Yesterday

Nigerian history is avoidably repetitious. If we the people...

Nigeria’s Economic Predicament: Fate Or A Fault?

Why is Nigeria taking loans from China when we have foreign reserves? How much interest are we getting from our reserves and what are the interest rate charges by China? Is China becoming the new Colonial masters?

Agonies of a Global Villager

As global villagers, we can get information from and relate with people from all over the world in real time. Regardless of where we are, others get information about us too, the information they get is placed alongside with information from around the world and there lies the beginning of the agonies of the global villager...

7 Things I Understood Better 12 Months into Marriage

Fairy tales usually end with... and they lived happily ever after...I am sure there are folks out there that would agree with me that they thought it would be smooth sailing after their wedding...