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...

Marilyn Ogar: Becoming The News

Ms Ogar was practically frothing at the mouth.  I thought that as a spokesperson for the DSS and as a Nigerian, the lady would be glad that mad people did not bomb anywhere, but her countenance and her delivery suggested otherwise.  She sermonised that every time the APC loses an election, bombs are let off in Nigeria...

When ‘Development’ Is Not Enough…

The April 2015 elections are just around the corner. Without a shade of doubt, one of the issues that would form and inform the choice of who to vote for, and who not to vote for, would be the question of development...

Between the APC and the Wily Greeks

Nothing is more painful and exasperating than when a supposed friend betrays your trust; nothing more irritating than knowing you could have avoided being stabbed in the back by a professed ally wearing velvet gloves...

Why We Should Not Stop Talking and Writing

You remember when corruption was least mentioned in our daily political and economic lexicons? When Salvation was the engine of evangelism instead of prosperity?

Change Catalysts In Pursuit Of a New Nigeria

Change in the Nigerian context has always been an interesting discourse, bearing in mind the fact that the nation’s history is filled with very many experiences that remain talking points till date...

Nigeria: Let’s think unity

Peace, unity, reconciliation and forgiveness are what we Nigerians should stand to acknowledge through wisdom, kindness, liberty, justice, fairness, love: and work to overcome the negative through the creation of a positive mindset that would lead us to a positive environment...

A Note to the Nigerian Bar Association Meeting in Owerri, Imo State

During the Oputa Supreme Court days, there was noticeable erudition in Supreme Court judgments. The legal academia gradually lost its intellectual shine as locally trained lectures dictated notes to students to copy...

A Treatise on Political Ebola

There were vicious strains of political Ebola that terminally strangulated credible elections and the continuum of good governance. Those strains where personified by spent forces who transmuted to political vampires and garrison commanders. They catalyzed the processes of electoral malpractice with the highest level of impunity and infected the image of the country...

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The Not In Our Character 'Ab(r)ac(h)adabra'

Is it not in our character as a people to kill one another in the name of politics? Is smuggling of narcotics and other outlawed drugs not in our character? Is it not in our character to defraud ourselves and other foreigners?

There Was A Sage Called Chinua Achebe

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Nigerian Stock Exchange and its Many Troubles

Like most other stock markets around the world, Nigerian stock exchange was devastated by the global financial crisis of 2008. But unlike many that have already recovered, the recovery of the NSE is taking time. In fact some pessimists see the situation as if the market will never recover to its pre-crisis level...

Encomium/Kennis Music Green and White Party: How Do You Celebrate Nigeria?

I write as a Nigerian who has observed with dismay how we have inadvertently allowed music as a form of art to undermine the fight against Advance Fee Fraud in general and the Internet form of it, in particular...

Education Is Not Immunity: When Certificates Fail To Guarantee Sound Leadership In Nigeria

In Nigeria’s public discourse, there is a recurring assumption...

A Super-Charged Nation

Do Nigerian men really walk about packing a permanent hard on as the image in one of the energy drink brands suggests or is it the women that are leading them on...

NYSC at 52: Issues and Perspectives

In 1999, when I went to the Faculty of...

And She Died In My Arms

My impromptu trip to Nigeria was an experience that will continue to linger in my mind. The news of my mom in comatose made me very unsettled and agitated...

2023 Presidency: Who is Afraid of Ndigbo?

In a statement issued last week Monday, Media Mogul,...

Desperation politics and implications for investment

Nigerians have in the past one month witnessed with steadily growing alarm a heightening desperation exhibited by politicians in their bid to control the country’s federal government in the next political dispensation...