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...

APC Should invest in public primary, secondary, and democratic education in Nigeria

Quality public primary and secondary education provides the fountain for human development and a catalyst for social and economic development in Nigeria; a nation endowed with natural and human resources finds itself politically, socially and culturally polarized...

Nigerian Politicians Defecting to Other Parties: Some Other Ethical and Legal Issues

Before any politician can justify disembarking from his party and seeking accommodation elsewhere, he must show written evidence that he has assiduously tried to correct his party’s wrong policies to no avail...

Irreverent Personality Cultism, Arrant Bigmanism Stultify National Consciousness

The grand passion of Nigeria’s under class and marginalized under-achievers is to talk familiarly with “exalted personages” and entertain them with buffoonery...

Fani-Kayode, Truth Is The Best Weapon

I have nothing against Kayode’s bid to project himself as the arch-defender of the Yoruba, whether within the Nigerian federation or as an independent entity. Self-determination is no sin and there is nothing to be ashamed of in forging a pan Yoruba nationalism...

Rebranding Our Image Issues In domestic and Foreign Policy

Nigeria has suffered and also has been abused by its rulers from the inception of nationhood. The country is like a wife who endures a continuous domestic violence from her husband with no respite...

Is Nigeria A True Fusion Or A Conned Fusion?

We appear to be growing more and more incompatible, and more and more prominently pulled apart by many overt and subterranean reasons. More people feel cheated and desecrated by principal ethnic actors who have been in control of the jugular of government and governance for seasons unending...

Nigeria’s Goebbels: Is he over-optimistic?

Nigeria’s Minister of Information and Supervising Minister of Defence speaks eloquently, with overwhelming confidence and not the cautious optimism of a diplomat...

Nigerians Yawn Over Missing Billions

Why are we so blest? What combination of factors has rendered Nigerians this apathetic, this nonchalant, this indifferent to their degraded condition? In a space where most so-called citizens exist in animal-level states, a country with no healthcare to speak of, a vast toilet of a country where millions defecate in the open...

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Fear Don Catch Ribadu

Looking back, the EFCC was created to smoke-screen Nigeria with an anti-corruption crusade, while the nation was besieged by the swooping masquerade of massive looting...

Rejoinder To Mr. Femi Olawole

Your comments on my article, "Patriotism, Dead or Alive," came to my attention only yesterday. Installing me in a group, you accuse me of "a chronic pessimism as to become pathetically blind to the emerging new Nigeria," and of not bothering to "proffer alternative leadership or management strategies..."

The Global Arms Race: Profit, Power, and Perpetual Conflict

In an increasingly polarized world marked by ongoing tensions...

Yes, INEC Has Lost The Game

It is necessary to state from the very outset that whatever difficulties INEC claims to be facing currently in the discharge of its constitutional responsibility – conduct of free, fair and credible polls – were avoidable...

Enough Is Enough Nigeria: Let’s Go There!

It's been said that it takes a drug to cure a disease, it takes failure to appreciate success, and as shown recently, it takes an ailing president, overambitious first lady and a helplessly weak vice president to invoke the anger of Nigerian youths...

Igbo Presidency: Not Now, Not Later…

Like I have wished for other ethnicities to rise to the very top political position rather than being perpetual followers, the focus of my article today is the Igbos. Rise up and solidify or shut up and continue to play your supportive roles as usual...

Yar’adua Return: Deceiving a Decent Nation!

From all indications, a few unscrupulous individuals with no interest of the country at heart have continued to hoodwink and manipulate the rest of us. We all are aware that behind all these deceit and web of lies is the issue of succession...

Why Gender Equality Is A Problem For The African Woman

I don’t subscribe to a man dominating his wife, as many men commonly do without blinking an eyelid...

The Abandoned ECOMOG 'Bastards' In Liberia

The echoes of the Liberian civil war and the ECOMOG 'sexploits' reverberated recently when it was reported that over 250,000 children were fathered by the Nigerian contingent during their sojourn in Liberia...

Buhari, Stop the Charade of War against Corruption, Please!

President Muhammadu Buhari should admit, today, not tomorrow, that...