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...

Before the National Dialogue Begins…

A political cultist group emerged after military rule. A man-made god reverence dominated our political space, whereby a few men dictated their subject ideas about how Nigeria must be governed...

One Term Southern Presidential Candidacy: A Norm?

What baffles me is that Obasanjo did not consider the way and manner he emerged as the Presidential Candidate of the PDP in his first term as unfortunate in view of its implication of generating animosity and rancor...

The process of governance is multi dynamic

Young Nigerians now understand that President GEJ is not above errors. The President himself has demonstrated that man is not infallible...

Imo: Wait, is this the same Okorocha we voted for in 2011?

If he had any of such titles as Major General or Lieutenant Colonel prefixed to his name, Owelle Rochas Okorocha would have failed woefully in the 2011 election...

The Application of Political Theory to Contemporary Nigerian Politics

Those who did not study the history of political theory are wading into the domain of political science and practice, half blind and half deaf...

Unkind Postures of the Boss

Some of our 'Ogas at the top' behave as if they do not need love from their 'Boys at the bottom'. They loathe showing kindness to their boys. What they see as the showing of kindness is the pittance they give to their boys...

Tonye Princewill: A Nigerian Star I Know @ 45

Barely a toddler in the Nigerian politics in 2007, Princewill was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate of the then Action Congress, AC, for the governorship of Rivers State. This came in the midst of known contenders for that position...

From Brute to Man, from man to god and from god to demi-god

The thorny, stony, pathway from brute to man, from man to god and from god to demi-god, can only be trodden with the help of incandescent light and Grace...

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Sex, Homosexuality And Us (2)

The gay movement is gradually spreading across Africa, Nigeria in particular. The general feeling is that gays are getting bolder in their quest for acceptance and integration in the Nigerian context...

Concussion (2015 film) is a Nigerian

Poser: How many Hollywood movies have been made about...

Neither Speakership nor Chairmanship, Just a Yoruba Nation

What the people need is good education, good health care, massive infrastructural development, and an environment that allows trade and industry to flourish all in a vibrant intellectual environment...

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

Grappling with the Heart of the Nigerian Matter

Politics, Economics & the Nigerian Petroleum Industry (3rd Edition)...

Save Nigeria’s imports-dependent economy

In this era of technological revolution, a sequel of the industrial era, Nigeria should jump on the bandwagon of promising knowledge economy that predominantly drives the development of new technologies, skills, strategies, processes, procedures and aptitudes to revive the nation’s comatose industrial sector...

Gas Flaring: The Need To Rescue The Environmental And Economic Degradation

The first-ever globally consistent survey commissioned by the World Bank’s Global Gas Flaring Reduction Partnership has established that the African continent’s efforts to reduce gas flaring are succeeding...

Conversation with Karen Ann King-Aribisala

Culture is a dress that people wear and you have to get beneath that dress, beneath that physicality and look at what really matters, the things that endure which we cannot see...

Before Castigating General Buhari

It will amount to a political misjudgement for Buhari to be offered the presidential ticket for 2003 without him redressing the injuries and abuses of his past military administration...

Nigeria and the Art of Going Backwards

I liked the ‘old’ national anthem, ‘Nigeria we...