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...

Nyanya: We Better Wake Up Or Die Where We Lie

I do not know what to say or write here that will make sense. In other terrorism-infested climes, an attack like the one at Nyanya will not be taken lying low...

More Pastors May Die At Igbo Funerals

Whatever the sons of late Pa Oji Okoko are saying, the in-thing is that they disappointed their father in death no matter who they said was it that persuaded them against his wish that Christian burial should not be conducted for him...

Imo 2015: Martin Agbaso and his regrets

Much of the elder Agbaso's worry today is not about the circumstances that led to the reprehensible ouster of his brother as deputy governor, but the belief that the present crop of leadership in the state is not doing enough to assuage the fester in road infrastructure, education, health, water and recreation...

Yes, Mr. President, review the activities of CP, Abia State

It was supposedly in the words of Kalu that some policemen in Abia State are likely to be breaching the rights of individuals by arresting some journalists, thereby abusing their fundamental human rights...

Abba Moro and the War on the Poor

Mr. Moro, Nigeria’s Minister of the Interior, is sitting pretty precisely because the Nigerian state has scant regard for Nigerians wounded by the festering sore of poverty. That sentence actually puts a gloss on the reality...

Before Fulani Herdsmen Kill All Of Us

Over 150 people were reportedly killed recently by Fulani herdsmen in an attack on three villages of Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwan Gata and Chenshyi, in Kaduna State...

How much money does a man need?

Why tackle only the tip of an iceberg and leave the base to rot? For as long as the “political detractors” of the likes of Adeyemi Ikuforiji remain un-arrested and un-molested, our society has no moral right to prosecute or embarrass Ikuforiji any longer.

The Example of Lateef Jakande

I’m not able to swear that Mr. Jakande did not take a single overseas trip, but the odds are that he didn’t. At any rate, if he traveled out of Nigeria during his governorship, he did it rather sparingly...

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Exodus and the Reality of Diaspora

The terrible price of perceived failure and imminent rejection by family and friends back home will not persuade our Ade, Emeka and Nosa to return home just like that…

Prosperity, Eternity (16): Admonition concerning Disorderliness Busybodies

The pages in this series are for all Christians because all Christians can give and they all should give. By implication therefore the pages discourage both disorderliness and the abuse of the liberality of the Church caused by busy bodies...

Nigeria: Still An Abandoned Project

Please, could somebody just walk across to President Olusegun Obasanjo's cozy castle in Aso Rock and ask him how he felt when he saw the report that the two survivors of  the December 10 crash of the Sosoliso Flight 1145 in Port Harcourt were flown to South Africa  for medical treatment?

Ibusa Union, London Branch: Problems and Prospect 2

I believe that the influence and discipline in the advanced democracy we live in, coupled with education, enlightenment and interactions with far sighted positive thinkers, should be enough to help bleach away the attitude problems of our people...

Simple Questions for Yoruba Monarchs

The presidential campaign team of the PDP and their...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 6)

Some militant groups, unfortunately, are making some tactical mistakes by releasing kidnapped foreign oil workers. This is a very serious blunder on their part! The militants, instead of releasing kidnapped or captured foreign oil workers, should step up their kidnapping...

Locating the Real Enemies of Nigeria

There is an age long presumption in Nigeria’s political...

Prosperity, Eternity (10 ): Brotherly Love, Spirit’s Unction and Life for Evermore!

We are individually called unto Holiness. That is our individual identity that we must keep and grow in. Its taproot must be firm in the Cross of Calvary where we are saved and where all graces flow to keep us through this dark world of sin...

Long Lost Sister

I had always known that I had a half-brother, Papa’s first child by his German girlfriend in his college days. Papa never spoke of him...

The Banana Skins Called Ibori, Etteh And Odili

The problem is not so much that the government is winning the war against corruption, but the impression that the war itself is not being fought with sincerity of purpose, the right tools and resources or seriousness...