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...

Odimegwu Onwumere ‘arrested’?

The Abia State Governor T.A. Orji’s boys have been spreading falsehood with their pseudonyms and through blogs they create and on social networks that I was arrested in Delta State a fortnight ago..

Sanusification of Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

On the 20th day of May, 2014, a Judge at the Federal High Court delivered his judgment in the celebrated case between Sanusi Lamido, struggling and erstwhile former commander-in-chief of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the Federal government of Nigeria...

Armchair Trotskys (1)

Mobs destroy and scarcely create. Be it as wild savages or unthinking herds, it has always been the preoccupation of the mob to tear down. Take the Nigerian mob for instance; by its impulsiveness, lack of forethought and restraint, want of personal and societal ethics, it expedites the destruction of everything and anything...

Mr. President Please Avoid Chibok…

Our President is under some very strong pressure to travel to Chibok, venue of the abduction of 230 school children. The people that are putting this unnecessary pressure on him are none other than our journalists and so-called human rights groups...

Leadership and the Rest of Us

The gulf between those who believe that what our country needs are good leaders rather than good governance and those who lay emphasis on good governance may never be bridged. For example, a great mind like Chinua Achebe died believing that the problem with Nigeria was poor leadership...

Jonathan Disgraced Nigerians by Meeting Hollande in Paris over Chibok Girls and Boko Haram

What is really going on in Nigeria for God's sake?! Is this the useless giant of Africa that we all make noise or brag about? A giant of Africa that has zero influence and whose president is not even capable of doing very simple things like inviting his colleagues from neighbouring countries to Abuja, the capital of his country...

Abba Moro, Son Of Jonathan

When government officials are accused of high corruption or wrong-doing, those officials know that, at worst, they have plenty of time to perfect their alibi.  Jonathan usually does nothing - even after his citizens have shouted themselves hoarse.  His standard approach is to hunker down and hope that the matter would go away...

Uncle Sam Is In, But Let’s Not Pack It In

Now that the United States, Britain, and some European countries may be stepping in to help rescue the Chibok girls, I hope that Nigerians won’t fold up, reach for their beers and pepper soup—and go into snooze mode...

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Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan's Epoch–Making Policies for a 21st Century Developed Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan, having put in place an effective intelligence and information gathering mechanism, and working collaboratively with Western countries like United State of America, Britain, France and UN to find these girls, is not relenting in his efforts...

Uncle Hope

Sometime ago, the president of Nigeria launched a pet project, which by now is long forgotten and dead. It is dead because even the person who initiated it probably used it as a popularity stunt and never actually believed in it himself. He called the project; "I see Hope".

The Verdict of History and the Arrogance of Power

Milsovic and Karadzic have paid the supreme price for...

Amaechi's Frustrations In The Hands Of Contractors

Road construction always signifies the giant steps of any government, especially in this part of the world where the leaders use the tax payers’ money to build infrastructures and wear the imminent credit accruing from them as if it was their personal money...

Third Term Politics: Dear Segun, Dear Sunday (Week 3)

You may be right that none of my longstanding friends see wisdom in me retaining the presidency. Of all people – can you imagine Ibrahim advising my term elongation will bring chaos? Have I descended so low to be lectured by Ibrahim, the Maradona?

Inside The Thoughts of A Man Who Recently Reunited With His Destiny

It is true I am cunning and ruthless in my dealings with our people, be they civilians, or civic-minded members of the Military. How else is one to ensure obedience, and preserve one's rule? How else is one to deal with opponents who refuse the riches one is willing to bestow them?

Good PR Or Good Governance? Nigeria Waits for Substance Over Stories

As President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and National Security Adviser...

Justice Or Public Policy: The Yar’adua Ruling

The recent ruling of the Court of Appeal, acting as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that decided that President Umaru Yar’Adua was validly elected on 21 April 2007 surely merits comments by Nigerians...

Political Stalemate In Iraq

World leaders like Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Pinochet and others may not know that they were in the service of the Luciferian hierarchy by destroying cities, innocent women and children...

Mountaineering and Manifestation of the Sons of God

Christianity is a heavenly call: A call by the God of Heaven unto salvation of our souls; a call to grow thereafter in Christ or to become more like the Lord of Heaven...