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...

Missing – Why Is Our Money Always Missing?

As far as public money is concerned in Nigeria, the word MISSING has taken on a whole new sinister meaning. Every day, it is one massive amount (usually in billions, soon to graduate into trillions) of money missing from the coffers of one government ministry/department/agency or the other...

2015: Kalu, Jonathan, Abia people and the reassurance

Judging by the mind-blowing degree of support the people have shown to Kalu, he in return pledged his conviction that the elections of 2015 in the state will be free of rigging and any iota of intimidations or harassment of the electorates...

Okay, Here Are Some Answers

I’m often taken aback when some of my Nigerian readers respond to my column by noting a failure to offer solutions. These fairly frequent responses are stated as complaints. It’s as if everything would turn out just fine, the country’s myriad crises would evaporate, once I stipulated what the solutions ought to be...

The Evil That Men Do…Does Not Mean Anything in Nigeria

Most of our rulers (and the followers), probably due to some warped and debased genetic aberration do not seem to have any sense, understanding and appreciation of the difference between Right and Wrong; between Good and Evil...

We are Boko Haram

As the Boko Haram “intifada” continues to transmogrify in monstrosity; upping the ante in barbarism and savagery, more Nigerians, undoubtedly, will be martyred. This is not a prognosis of doom, but a cringing deduction from the exegesis of the terror group. However, this article does not broach Boko Haram’s future killing statistics...

Impact of Cultural Changes in Nigeria Politics

The new breed of rogue politicians exploited the goodness and kindness of Nigerians, and ran the country like ‘moolue bus’. They consolidated their grip on the power and resources of the country, and introduced a scare tactics to force a compromise on our integrity...

A National Insult Rejected

How did we quickly forget that Abacha’s looting of public funds from the vaults of the Central Bank of Nigeria was a patriotic act? Or that he gave his cronies licenses to import toxic fuel into Nigeria because he so fiercely loved Nigerians and fervently desired their development?

As We Await Jega’s Imperfect Elections In 2015

I don’t know what was probably on the mind of Attahiru Jega, the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) recently when he warned Nigerians not to expect a perfect election from his INEC in 2015...

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Nigeria Delta Crisis and United States’ Energy Crisis

Bush's measures might not make much of a dent in oil imports.With the crisis in Venezuela, the war in Iraq and the limitations put on the capacity of OPEC to meet any additional supply; there is a major energy crisis in the United State...

Who Needs Nigeria?

The eyes with which I see the world, which makes me approachable or amiable or dignified or capable is not Nigerian. I get that from my vicinity. From that view, we can be better friends than we currently are...

Black Women and White Men and the Question of Marriage (2)

It is unlikely anyone knows for sure the number of successful or promising Black men who are dating, or are married to White women. All we know is that the number is large; we also know that in some communities, dating or being married to a White woman is considered desirable...

Open Letter To Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello

Let me state from the outset that I do not intend to contend the veracity of the issues you raised in your letter.  But I intend to provide the appropriate contexts which you deliberately left out...

10 Reasons Why the APC Will Win Oyo Gubernatorial Race

I was a proud witness and participant in the...

Ekiti Re-Run: Hanging to a Void or Hunting for a Voice?

What an historic opportunity we in Nigeria have wasted. With our British legacy of parliamentary democracy, we could have been different, a model and beacon for the rest of the third world...

Humanitarian Security Management: Need for Paradigm Shift

This discourse interrogates the current humanitarian security management systems...

Sack This “diplomatic” Boxer

The specter of physical and emotional spousal abuse is, sad to say, a much-hushed scandal in our society. It would be bad enough if the perpetrators were only ignorant peasants...

Comparing Diasporas: Asians, Jews, Irish and Nigerians

Why Do Diasporas Exist?
How Are Diasporas Beneficial to Homelands?
How Fare Nigeria, Compared with other Homelands?
What Can Diaspora Nigerians Learn from other "matured" Diasporas?

Mr. Jonathan Feels Our Pain

President Goodluck Jonathan, who is leading the charge to deepen Nigeria’s poverty index by removing the so-called fuel subsidy, appears bent on playing a Clinton. He is anxious to sell Nigerians on the idea that he feels their pain...