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...

Agents Of Satan Now In Abia

Abia State has become the devil’s den with daylight robberies, killings and kidnappings. The state has become a free for all place for killers and armed robbers...

Rivers: Those That Would Abandon Amaechi

Around Amaechi are people one could call spoilers within. They are sharks that swallow both the small and big for the hunger of wealth...

What Common Sense Requires

If you sample the opinions of the so-called “most enlightened” segment of the populace as to what constitutes the most formidable challenge – out of a multitude - militating against Nigeria’s development and growth, the major answer that is likely to emanate from such an enquiry is “bad leadership”...

Bishop Kukah’s Grave Misreading

Bishop Kukah’s lecture was also remarkable for a more dubious reason, one that pertains to me. In a bizarre turn in his talk, the bishop singled me out for furious verbal attack...

Justice for Sale?

A common issue concerning the distribution of the things we all aspire to in our country has been a denominator dominated by unevenness. There has never been any kind of justice in this Nigeria. In times past, some of the things that we should all aspire to were either in the hands of one strong man and his linguistic or regional divide...

Unsafe abortion: Young girls die out of lack of knowledge

Unsafe abortion has lingered as one of the chief factors for the increasing maternal death rate in the country. The level at which unsafe abortion is destroying the lives of young Nigerian women has become a cause for concern...

The Nigerian Police and National Security

The rising incidences of kidnappings, assassinations, terrorism and other acts of violence across Nigeria has elicited critical questions from Nigerians bordering on the readiness of the country’s security forces to rise up to the mounting threats...

The Wonder Known As Wole Soyinka

Wole Soyinka turned 80 at the very beginning of this week. For many, that milestone must seem incredible. He looks scandalously young and vibrant, his physique trim, his mind ever engaged with some of the major literary and political issues of our time...

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Dora Akunyili, Destiny and The Fate of Nigerians

Many have canvassed for Dora to head INEC, while some have said she should be returned to NAFDAC and some still, that she should be made the Minister of Health...

Medical Emergency (Non)Response in Nigeria

You get accidentally knocked down by a car in...

Addressing the Public Health Challenges Nigeria Faces

The major public health challenges Nigeria faces are infectious diseases, sewage disposal, health insurance, water supply, air pollution, noise pollution, environmental radiation, housing, solid waste disposal, disaster management...

The Paradox Of Nigerian Politics

Does Nigeria have any laws concerning the limit of contribution party members can make? Is it being enforced? Who is responsible for the enforcement and how is it being done?

N27.5 Million APC Forms: Buhari Unravels

Late last week (Thursday, October 16, 2014), the All...

What Have You Done Lately For Democracy In Nigeria? (3)

I have no doubt in my mind that Utomi is the "Messiah" for Nigeria today. Undoubtedly, his presidency will benefit all...

Personal Reflections On Our Political Orientation

Dear Reader, before you think or say “Oh my God, not another essay about Nigerian corruption from this guy”, please bear with me...

We all must be involved

Sometime ago in 1985, some musicians heeded the call...

Sycophancy Is a Terminal Disease

I had the great opportunity of reading in manuscript...

What Will You Do Or Say?

You've been passing yourself of as an intellectual busybody, venturing opinion on this and that, and on matters that sometimes do not concern you. You rub politicians' noses with your satire and hope to get away with it.  And then out of the blues, CNN invites you to come and discuss the matter...