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...

“On June 12 They Stood”: On June 12 They Paid The Prices for Our Today

When the name June 12 comes up, everyone fidgets and wonders the direction of the ensuring political discourse. Even if one were to be thinking or referring to something absolutely unconnected with the Nigerian political failure such as the Mundial World Cup 2014...

Righteousness Exalts a Nation

This much quoted biblical aphorism is very often avoided by prosperity pastors when they preach before man-made gods. They also do not tell the truth which says ,"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and suffers the lose of his own soul..."

Akunyili, Bayero: So, Gov. T.A. Orji can express shock?

Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji is really working in Abia State for only those he has marshaled out to be praising him, not for the collective well-being of the state...

Joseph Mbu Again!

Throughout history and throughout the world, some names have become synonymous with wickedness and negativity.  Some names are only famous for their notoriety.  Joseph Mbu, the current Commissioner of Police in Abuja, seem to want to haul himself into this league...

Kano: FG, Hankalifa

When I saw Lamido Sanusi' picture in the Nigerian press, I said to myself, that is a chip off the old block. Long may he reign!!!

Boko Haram: Changing Dynamics of an Insurgency

This piece analyses the burgeoning intensity of violence in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria, consequent to the apocalyptic campaigns of Boko Haram – a fundamentalist Islamist group that has been engaging the country’s security forces in an internecine war of attrition since 2010...

Gov. T.A. Orji operates a cult-like government

Whenever I want to leave Gov. Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State alone in order to see if he will change the compass of his stranded way of governing that once glorious state of ours, something in me tells me that if others and I do, the governor will continue to live in a fool's paradise...

Biafra, the Ostrich Mentality and Nigeria’s Tragedy

There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I must do so again—that Nigeria’s refusal to confront and address the sore of the Biafran War is the chief reason no nation has been able to materialize out of the space called Nigeria...

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Stealing Statesman: A Faceless option of Nigerian Politician

Since Nigerian politicians have redefined public service as an avenue for wealth acquisition, and have out of greed disingenuously compromised honor that leads to statesmanship, the Nigerian masses should rise up to the challenge by check-mating their insensitivity...

Onyeka Nwelue: The Abyssinian Boy Comes Of Age

"I haven't tasted any fame at all. Nothing like that. I am still like our agberos in Lagos, hassling to leap into that Molue bus going to Orile from Oshodi. I haven't. You can only say that when you come to my village. O yeah! They value me so much. There are no two ways about it. They say I am their Wole Soyinka..." - Onyeka Nwelue

Babatunde Fashola, SAN, for President!

But wait till you hear what others have to say about Babatunde Fashola as Lagos Governor. For a prominent Nigerian musician who does not want his name mentioned, Fashola is ‘Up NEPA! – to mean that he does what he does for the good of Lagos and wants to be noticed doing so...

Prosperity, Eternity (5): How are we laying Treasures?

Those earnestly and readily distributing and communicating are laying up in store for themselves good foundations against the time to come; that they might lay hold on eternal life...

The War on Terrorism — Does America Deserve Our Help?

The dominant feeling in Third World countries is that "Against the better judgment of the world America created this mess -- let them clean it up." It shouldn't be so...

Obama Is Not American!

There is so much idiocy going on in America these days. Racism is alive and well, but now too often wears fine clothes and expresses itself in impeccable grammar wrapped in robust syntax...

Of Einstein, Soyinka, the Six Chikes, Germany and Theoretical Physics

On March 1 1983, 35 years ago, at the...