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...

Governor Oshiomhole, Edo State Politricks of Deceit, Sectionalism and Bad Governance

Edo state is part of the oil region of Nigeria and has been in the news recently for the wrong reasons. The politricks of “one man, one vote” mantra of Governor Oshiomhole has now become one man, one show...

The Jonathans: There is God oo

I was shocked to hear the President say that we do not have a modern army.  We don’t?  What then has been happening to all the billions that go into Defence budgets every year?  So, in a way, I was relieved to learn that the Americans are coming to help us out...

Politics of blood donation

After the bomb incident of 14th April that took scores of lives and maimed many, the government let out a plea asking kind-hearted Nigerians to come donate blood to victims of that attack...

Jonathan and the Security Challenge

The spate of insecurity under the Jonathan administration has been alarming. Most Nigerians will agree that the president lacks the capacity to ensure the protection of lives and properties of the citizens...

On General Buhari’s Sinister Code Of Silence

General Buhari took his misfortune and fall from grace to grass like a stoic to the extent that he kept mum when his new boss Sanni Abacha killed Nigerians at will. He also did not say anything when bombs were systematically targeted at perceived opponents of the Abacha junta...

I Am Still Hopeful For Nigeria

In the US for example, Nigerian ethnic communities are as segregated as America was in the days of John Edgar Hoover. Everybody is in his tent except occasionally. Where there is no trust, there is no love, and where there is no love, there is no true living.  The situation for Nigeria is getting worse!

Sanusi the ‘Ogbonge’ Whistleblower…

Most disgruntled Nigerians consider themselves quintessential whistleblowers. And there can be none who is the undisputed champion of the lot than Lamido Sanusi, the suspended commander-in-chief of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN...

Re: How an Elected Governor Can be Removed under Emergency Rule

The theory behind an emergency rule is hinged upon a hypothesis of taking actions necessary for peace and security, irrespective of what the constitution says or is not saying. And currently, Nigeria is in a state of war...

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Sores Of A Nation

At the moment of this writing, my brain throbs to fish out names of heroes, young and old, dead or alive, but what comes readily to me is an endless list of names of people that had somehow stagnated the country but whose robes had regularly been made clean...

Abuja: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria?

If you are ever asked to name the capital of Nigeria and you mention Abuja, I am afraid to tell you that you would be wrong because Abuja is not the capital of Nigeria...

The Egwu Onwa Concert of Ichoku Academy

The trailblazing minstrel, folk music collector and performer, Gerald...

Excogitative Deconstruction of the Discourse Dynamics of the Controverted Non-Interest Banking and the Islamicizing Controversy Issues

Approbatory and disapprobative voices have trailed the Central Bank of Nigeria’s decision to implement Non-Interest Islamic Banking in the country, a package whose initiative, framework, process leading to its formation and approval in principle date back to the reign of Sanusi’s predecessor...

Africa's Day In Calgary (3)

Poor kid, probably thinking Africa is on another planet and you guys must have travelled in a space ship to get here…in my days as a child, all we knew about Africa were the animals…

Perspective On The Fight Against Corruption In Nigeria

By Innocent Edemhanria Corruption is a major problem in Nigeria...

Christmas Bombings: A Nation Courting Death

Last Sunday, Nigeria made another bloody bid for global infamy as bombs detonated in churches in Abuja and elsewhere in the country. At the time of this writing, the death toll stood at more than twenty-five, and was expected to rise. That’s a staggering loss of live...

Africa and the World: Responding to Paul Adujie

Our leaders have poor judgment and make bad decisions: they go around the world with their heads bowed currying favors; they go from one corner of the world to the other, with cap in hand, begging for financial crumbs. Africa has been a collection of beggar nation states right from the early years of political independence...

Who is Afraid of the National Conference?

Regardless of the political insinuations from all quarters about the need or call for National Conference, the reality of the season dictates that Nigerians must come together  to discuss and re-determine the status of Nigerian nation...

Maurice Iwu and the Sale of Nigeria’s Collective Inheritance

Professor Iwu is not alone in this drive towards the sale of Nigeria’s biodiversity to the West for personal gains. Several Nigerian scientists, researchers, students and ordinary citizens, resident and in the Diaspora, have been known to collude with Western interests in selling off the plant resources of the country...