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...

Gov. T.A. Orji: Yes, Odimegwu Onwumere is a ‘madman’

Ordinarily, I do not bother to join words with the media aides of Governor Theodore Ahamefule of Abia State, because they do not use their real names in the media works and do not make substantial points...

Give Me Oduduwa Or Let Me Die By Femi Fani-Kayode: A Response

In an environment where the gluttony and want of wealth always trumps principles, a clamor for unison based on those tribal commonalities is a waste of time. These are not limited to the South West alone...

Corruption Has Caught Up With Us At Last – It is Inevitable

A corrupt society will constantly and consistently produce corrupt leaders or rulers. This is what has been happening in the depraved Nigerian society, and that is why we are, year-in year out producing corrupt leaders...

The National Question

That Nigeria is inhabited by over 500 ethnic groups is, no doubt, disputable. But it is incontrovertible that, unlike such African countries as Egypt, Lesotho and Swaziland, Nigeria is not a homogenous country...

A President under Siege by His Own People

I would love to have confidence in him, but I find it difficult to rally round him, despite the fact I know about the debilitating and negative effects of all the conspiracies and intrigues around him...

Orji and the Commendation to South-East delegates

It takes absolute morality to expose absolute immorality...

What Do APC, Nigerian Leaders Stand For?

The All Progressives Congress is now frequently called Nigeria’s main opposition party or group. Which designation raises the question: what exactly does the APC stand for? Or—a different question: In what significant ways does the APC represent an alternative vision for Nigerians?

El’Rufai and his intellectual Boko Haramism

Going by the dexterity and zest with which Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai awkwardly throws his weight against the government and, most times, the personality of President Goodluck Jonathan, one cannot but agree that there is a cult of ignorance in Nigeria, especially since this Boko Haram madness deepened in Jonathan's government...

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The Hidden Energy

We must in this level of incarnation begin to conjure the great force of nature; we must look beyond the unseen eyes into the heart of all things, into their true meanings. We must unfold the spirit shield covering all things...

Plane Crashes, Corruption and the National Security of Nigeria

Once in a while, a plane will crash somewhere in the world. This was exactly what happened in Nigeria on Sunday, September 17, 2006, when a military plane crashed. As much as one endeavors to rationalize that the plane crash was an unfortunate incident, there is a tempting desire to probe more...

Pharaoh crumbles under the pyramids

Kano Pillars football club of Kano, Nigeria may well be justified in branding themselves as 'Conquerors of Pharaoh's almighty army of Red Devils'...

SMEs’ fortune in zero-subsidy regime

The socio-economic aftereffects of the recent controversial removal of subsidy on petrol by the Federal Government of Nigeria have begun to manifest negatively, particularly in the observed lull in the day-to-day activities of many Small and Medium Enterprises...

Nigerian Renaissance Prospects and the Impediments by the Ogbologbos of Nigerian Politics

Every beer parlour in the country is filled with repeated factual narrations by compatriots who know the secrets of the Ogbologbos in Nigeria. Some are telling us about the documented gory details of the Ogbologbo exploits in wicked acts in pursuit of narrow fetish interests...

ATIKUlating A National Irritant

Atiku’s unravelling has been a long time coming.  It’s turned out that his vaunted political mastery is completely overblown.  Similarly, his crayon-written PR is hugely exaggerated.  Turns out he’s no master of anything at all...

The Metaphysics of Ass-Kissing

Only simpletons are deceived, by the obsequious silence of...

Social Housing in Nigeria – An Imminent Mass Housing Revolution?

Nigeria is yet to develop a vibrant housing and mortgage market, social and affordable housing policies, and housing continues to be provided through tortuous traditional methods of buying land and building over some years...

Governor Amaechi’s inability to enforce ban on street hawking

Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s Rivers State is with about 90...

Of Protests and Riots

Though often used interchangeably, a protest is different from...