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...

Celebrating the unbending Ngige @ 62

Nigerians were thrown into the ice when in July 2003, a sitting governor in the person of Ngige was abducted and was placed with a gun on his throat to sign a letter that he would cease to be governor...

Nigerian Students endangered by pathetic toilet facilities, defecate in bush

A great number of public nursery, primary, secondary and tertiary schools across the country do not have lavatories, experts said. Some have toilets, but its either the restrooms do not have doors or a water system for users’ convenience...

The Art Of Loathing The “Outside” Messenger

My recent column, entitled “Bishop Kukah’s Grave Misreading,” generated a high volume of emails, many of them remarkable for their insight. I was so struck by one email, written by a UK-based Nigerian, that I wrote back to ask its writer for permission to share his thoughts with others...

On The Battle Of 2015

The signs of a brewing political war are very ominous to all discerning observers as we gradually approach the 2015 General Elections. From shifts in political alliances, convocation of fresh ones, to the outright breakup of pre-existing ones, Nigeria’s political amphitheater is once more poised to stage another round of gladiatorial duels...

How APC Can Rediscover its Winning Ways

It is important to note that fundamental organizational strategy frameworks used in businesses can easily be applicable to political parties. When it is all said and done, political parties are entities in the business of selling political candidates in competition with others...

Why the Chibok Girls May Never Return To Us

It has been over one hundred days since the abduction of the Chibok girls. Over one hundred days in which the girls have had to endure pure horror and pain in the hands of terrorists. Over one hundred days of waking up at the mercy of the mood swings of terrorists...

Amaechi, Contractors and the Future of Rivers State

Amaechi seemingly did not tighten up how contracts were awarded in Rivers State. He might say that it was not in his office to award contracts, but since this concerned his government, the criteria with which contracts were awarded then to mostly indigenes, were not committed to assiduous supervision...

Is Nyako in the Sambisa Forest?

It beats every sense of reasoning when a machinery of the Federal Government like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, bemused the world with the statement that the former Adamawa State Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako has escaped from the country after he was impeached as governor...

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Kalu, T.A. Orji and the MASSOB Curse

What our people have come to endure in Gov. Orji’s government are multiple taxations, intimidation by security agents and gross dilapidated infrastructure that cut across all the areas in the state...

Active Governance With Nothing To Show: Why Is It Here?

It is generally the poor that suffer from bad governance. If anyone were to challenge that claim, it would be difficult to present them with overwhelmingly convincing factual evidence...

The 4-Dimensional Development Of Jesus Christ

Our emotional confusion often arises from the conflict between who we are and how we want to be perceived by others. But there was no obvious disconnect between who Jesus knew he was and how others perceived him...

Cry, My Beloved Nigeria

Nigeria deserves a better government that will be responsive to the yearnings of its people. Records indicate that twelve of the last thirteen Nigerian Presidents and Heads of State were circumstantial leaders...

Delta’s Stranger-than-Fiction Story of Two Omo-Ageges

Ovie Omo-Agege has always been a veritable pawn in the hands of Ibori and subsequently received choice appointments under the latter...

Friendly War

My wife claimed I hadn't given her "chop money" for the week. I know you don't believe her. Ah –ah, even the neighbors comment on how much fresher she looks while I continue to lose weight. Then next minute I was accused of being a tribalist who only got on with his countrymen on football match days...

Nigeria's 419 Constitution 4: An Igbo President? Mission Impossible!

How many people can the Federal Government count on today to pick up arms happily, voluntarily, to defend its territory in case of an attack? Are you ready to pick up arms and die defending the integrity of Nigeria?

The Clarion Call

No nation can thrive in violence, war or famine likewise no citizen can live with his two eyes closed during violence, war or famine...

The Making of a Boss

Being a boss is very simple. The first step is to garner every conceivable and inconceivable subterfuges, including blackmail, ethnicism, praise-singing, name-calling, tale bearing, bootlicking, laying claim to bogus intellectual achievements...

Nkolika: Re-Telling the Story of Women and Their Place in Our Society

A few weeks ago, I was having a discussion...