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...

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...

Orji and the Bullet that killed John Ndukuba

Gov. T.A. Orji should stop looking for only fools to be those he wants to govern. From the incessant threat to my own life, it is obvious that he does not want to govern and see wise men from or in Abia State...

Sanusi’s Suspension Is An Impeachable Offense

The national assembly should immediately begin impeachment proceedings against the current president of Nigeria, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Dr. Jonathan is culpable in the oil theft and non-remittance of revenue from crude oil by NNPC under his administration...

The Internal dialogue before the National conference

One of the things we actually need to dialogue on and change is our attitude. The attitude to our neighbour, country, religion and ethnic groups needs to change for there to be any meaningful change in Nigeria...

Between Owelle Rochas, Imo People And The Gathering Locusts

And so they gathered, like supercilious vultures, gathered around a rotting corpse. They made all the noise of that gathering. They hooted and fretted and hoisted the totem of that ritual like their lives depended on it. Yes, of course, their lives, their much vaunted but empty political lives, rest on such empty and hollow ritual...

Abia Workers Celebrate 7 Months Of No Salary

A fortnight, a lecturer with the Abia State Polytechnic called and was weeping. I thought that he had lost somebody. Although, I had not met with the caller in person, but on enquiring why he was crying, he told me that could I imagine that lecturers in the school have not been paid their salaries for seven months....

The Child, the Youth and the Country, Nigeria

When I saluted Nigeria on the occasion of her 53rd Independence celebrations last October, I was not too sure that my greeting rang out with joy and optimism. I, however, feel that an occasion like that, largely received with mixed feelings across the country...

Fashola: A quintessential leader

Fashola's enviable performance in Lagos state must have been the cynosure of all eyes as his government is being recognised by local and the international community...

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This Can’t Be Democracy

Nigeria’s independence and democracy are testaments that testify to the victory of the tenacious grimly persistent and unfaltering founding fathers of our nation...

The Ijaw Question: Military or Diplomatic Solutions?

Why would you bomb your own neighborhood? Why cause mothers and fathers the grief and anguish of burying their innocent children? Go blow up buildings in Abuja. Go blow up bridges in Lagos. Go cause environmental problems in Kaduna. Go assassinate the head of the oil companies who are safely ensconced in their palatial homes in Lagos and Port Harcourt and elsewhere. Leave our mothers and fathers and daughters and sisters and brothers alone…

Nollywood Personifies the Resilience and Ingenuity of the Nigerian, Says Sam Kargbo

Charles Taylor, former Liberian President, was very brutal and ruthless to Nigerians. He marked them out as his number one foes and acted in accordance with that hate mentality. But look at where he is today. Is it not an irony?

The End of the reign of Nebuchadnezzars in World  Politics

Two significant events have happened in the last few weeks in Nigeria, which are signs of hope; the signing by President Jonathan of the Freedom of Information Act. Secondly, the successful outing of the Green Eagles against Argentina...

The Fire This Time

The presidency of Nigeria is so highly coveted that...

The Metaphysics of Ass-Kissing

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

Simple Questions for Yoruba Monarchs

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

Nigeria Decides: Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari or Ribadu?

Never before in the history of the country has a general election generated such feverish excitement among Nigerians – at home and in the diaspora - like the 2011 April Polls...

Oyebamiji, NIWA and Blue Economy

From the track records of Munirudeen Bola Oyebamiji, his...