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...

What Boko Haram Really Wants

What does Boko Haram really want? Answers to this tasking question have become more pertinent in the wake of the anarchic situation in the...

The Selfie Meets The Peacock

The dramatic rise in popularity of the so-called selfie—the self-taken photograph—strikes me as a symbolic way of understanding a dominant aspect of social behavior...

#30PercentOrNothing? Not This Generation…At Least Not Yet

The #30PercentOrNothing hashtag is one of the newest to flood social media in Nigeria. From what I gathered, it is a campaign initiated to...

Boko Haram: Something Is Not Right

In the early hours of April 14 2014, Boko Haram militants invaded the sleepy little town of Chibok. They made off with about 234...

Nuhu Ribadu's Transmutation

There is no politically discerning Nigerian who has not heard the news. Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the presidential candidate of the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011, has defected to the ruling People's Democratic Party...

My thought about peace in Nigeria

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals; to strive with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity, said Haile Selassie...

The Business of Drafting Jonathan

There’s a new business in Nigeria. It’s the business of drafting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan to present himself for reelection. A group called Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria (TAN) has emerged as the biggest, most enterprising player...

This Country Needs Heroes

Nigeria, unlike the U.S, lacks real heroes in the true sense of the word; lacks men and women who believe in the ideals on which their country was founded and who work assiduously to protect, sustain and promote them; bereft of patriots with altruistic dispositions - fearless loyalists who, above every other consideration, remain faithful, loyal and honest to the Nigerian State and its defining principles...

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When Leaders Exemplify Change…

The Constitution is being tinkered with again by the so-called National Confab summoned by our current President who had again refused to let our nation have a Constitution we can truly call our own. In a year or two, the same Constitution will be set aside or jettisoned for failing to fully address the structural problems of our Nation...

The West Is The Giver And Taker Of Literary Life – Chinedu Ogoke, Nigerian Writer

In 2002, Chinedu Ogoke, a Nigerian writer resident in Germany published his first novel, Under Fire. His second novel is being awaited. In this interview with Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Mr. Ogoke speaks on his work and the state of African Literature in relation to the still thorny issue of audience definition...

Obu Udeozo’s Cyclone: Painting History on the Canvass of Scientific Whirlwinds

Cyclone by Obu Udeozo; Fab Educational Books, Jos; 316pp The...

Jonathan Doesn’t Know Poor Nigerians

If anybody wanted proof that Nigerian “leaders” do not occupy the same space and time as most of their country folk, President Goodluck Jonathan amply provided it in an astonishing speech he gave last week...

CBN First Quarter Report: A Roadmap for Economic Recovery

The recently published first-quarter report from the Central Bank...

The Cable Thief

One day, late January, I came home and noticed my front door was unlocked. Another day, mid-February, I came home from work and noticed my back door was unlocked. A week later, I woke up in the middle of the night.  I thought I heard someone in the house...

Managerial Problem Of The UN

Washington has allowed issues irrelevant to American commitment to the UN to intrude. The US must pay its debts just like any other nation. Congress must immediately stop hectoring the UN...

The Impediments to Buhari’s Agenda: Time for Critical Assessment

In the next few months, President Buhari will be...

Enugu Killings: Matters Arising

There seems to be some quiet in the South...

Nigeria's Weekly Woes

Less than a month ago we were talking about the Niger Delta crisis, the militants, and the federal government amnesty. Then the Boko Haram crisis erupted. As the Boko Haram troubles were about to die down, the Nigerian banking crisis arose...