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...

Edo South Plead For Federal Government Presence

Over the years leaders of the Edo South stocks have emerged; we have Charles Idahosa, Osazee Ize-Iyamu, Prof. Edun Akenzua, as well as others too numerous to mention. These Sons and Daughters of the realm have carved a niche for themselves...

Kalu and the Season of Partnership

The partnership with Toro-Atlantic Global Limited caused a ceremony in Dubai that attracted the eyes of the crème de la crème in business the world over...

Some Insights into Democracy and How it can work in Nigeria

So much drama is unfolding in Nigerian political arena today, and the big players seem to care less about the people or the identity of the people they are governing. Otherwise, how best can anyone define the power play or the movement of a political class from PDP to APC?

Why Gov. T.A. Orji Is After Critics

The question among many Abia people is whether Governor T.A. Orji has built a new capital city in the state, except Umuahia...

Police brutality and democracy! Whither Nigeria

I am deeply troubled by the current pattern that our civilian democracy is trending in Nigeria.  It is frightening and if not curtailed, will metamorphose into a cancerous worm that will envelope the entire fabric of the society...

Nigeria’s New MINTED Hope

Again and again, experts, foreign and home-bred, have foretold that Nigeria was on the cusp of becoming a stupendous economic miracle. With each new prediction, many Nigerians, especially those who presume to be “leaders,” would go into a tizzy of celebration, as if the word potential was interchangeable with reality, as if promise were the equal of performance...

Looking at the Nigerian Society from both sides: Still on the National Dialogue

The Southern part of Nigeria is dominated by people who studied in Britain, speak fine English, but are short of the political philosophy evinced in nation-building...

Rescuing Delta: The Drift from Ogboru to Igbuzor

For now, may we say that the disenchantment of the people about Ogboru is not mono-causal.  We have said it well enough previously that Ogboru’s repeated failure in getting it right in the end each time the people give him the mandate has had incurably dampening effect on them...

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Kanu Agabi’s Bad Verse On Lagos

So many Nigerians, especially Lagosians, were miffed by the recent statement attributed to one of Obasanjo’s choice minions, Kanu Agabi that Lagos is an evil state…

Papacy, the Occults, America and New World Order

Until the anti-Christ comes the Papacy remains the worst institution and the most anti-Christian outfit in history...

Jobs for the youths or fraud by another name?

This appears to be the first time, in any part of the world, where a government, at whatever level, would require candidates applying for its jobs in the public service to part with some money for its jobs...

Uniben Campus Killing Exposes Deadly Collision Of Cultism, Fraud, And Security Failure

Fresh fears over insecurity, cult-linked violence, and the growing...

By-Products of Infidelity

Can infidelity go out of fashion? Having sex with...

Media in politics: The Tinubu example

“The world is a complex place, and the influence...

Nigeria’s Sea Of Poverty And Her “Prosperous” Government!

Nigerians are being subjected to emotional labour by this government. Day by day we narrate dark-figured crimes. The manner in which we are exposing our inability to prioritize and solve more crucial problems first is crazy...

Fake Intellectuals, Useless Patriots

Politics in Nigeria is like war because it is the most lucrative job in Nigeria. It is not impossible to see a man that made some moderate money from, say business, become stupendously rich once he's elected into political office...

Insecurity: Beyond the Resort to Primitivism

When the US-based Fund for Peace in collaboration with Foreign Policy magazine released the 2009 Failed States Index, last year, the ranking of Nigeria as the 15th most failed nation in the world, out of the 177 countries surveyed, did not, understandably, go down well with the country’s political elite...

The Future of the Developing World In 2050

Africa has become a jam-packed place for the West to dump its dangerous ammunitions. The West has also found an ugly trade in toxic waste in Africa...