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...

Nigeria and the Leadership Shortage

What many opulent Nigerians term as leadership is the exhibition of their exotic cars, power bikes, mansions, companies, pictures from foreign lands...

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...

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...

Iyabo Obasanjo’s Mirror

The Obasanjo who emerges in his daughter’s letter struck me as an altogether familiar figure. There are, for me, few surprises, save for the daughter’s unflinching marshaling of evidence unknown to most Nigerians in order to sustain her intrepid assessment of her father...

Gov. T.A. Orji's Love For A United Nigeria

At the Enugu State Correspondents' Chapel Press Week held on November 10, 2013, Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State raised hope of recalling the non-indigenes who were working in the state's ministry that his government blatantly sacked...

Abia abandons PDP for Progressive Peoples' Alliance

Everybody is crying in Abia State, except those cronies of the governor in government and those by the side who have ways of benefiting from the government...

Obasanjo: Deservedly, A Cruel Unmasking

If you have acquainted yourself with the political thought of Joseph Stalin, Garibaldi or Machiavelli, you may be near to unmasking the political behavior of Olusegun Obasanjo...

Why We Are Cheap

I was just curious to know two things – one, what is that tangible thing that we as Nigeria or Nigerians have ever produced that is of benefit to the world? Two, what is it that Nigeria has ever produced that has come cheap and which is affordable like those Chinese phones?

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Again, Obasanjo’s Sermon on Nigeria

Nigeria’s former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, will not stop amazing...

Nnamdi Kanu and Nigeria’s Leadership

The arrest and subsequent incarceration of Nnamdi Kanu -...

Peeking Into the Mind of President Yar’Adua

God, some maintain, made it possible for Yar’Adua and Jonathan Goodluck to be where they are today. I personally do not think that God has anything to do with the matter. What influence does God have in Nigeria? Who listens to God in Nigeria?

Prosperity, Eternity (7): Being that Faithful and Wise Steward!

When we use the unrighteous mammon the way God expects them to be used it is only then that we can be entrusted with the true riches. In other words only those who are using the unrighteous mammon faithfully on earth can be given or rewarded with the true riches in all of eternity...

Reserve Currency Cold War: Dollar vs. Yuan

Besides weakening Chinese economy, saving petrodollar which meant not to allow Saddam Hussein to carry out his threats of switching from dollar to the would be petroeuro was why Iraq was invaded in 2003. If it's not, what else would have been the explanation for such high oil prices while Iraqi oilfields which would have been pumping as high as 6 million barrels per day remained locked up?

Nigeria's 419 Constitution 3: Bakassi, Obasanjo's Sacrificial Lamb to The West

Can't you see that after unjustly incarcerating Dokubo for years, the federal government is now negotiating with him "on his own terms." What this means is that the federal government understands only the language of force...

You Were The Genesis: An Open Letter To Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

I have lost hope in the generation that controls the affairs of Nigeria. A bright future for our country therefore resides in the formation and careful upbringing of a new set of people whose eyes are ringed from infancy with the chalk of responsible governance, with the ‘ofo’ and ‘ogu’ placed in their hands...

Cyril Nri – Nigerian born star on British TV

Is there a conspiracy to put black actors and writers down?

General Olusegun Abacha

The most ardent of the critics of the Obasanjo administration have now agreed that Nigeria is worth dying for. This newfound faith in the polity is being demonstrated by those young, patriotic, energetic and highly dependable youths of the Niger Delta...

The Strong-Man Syndrome!

When the US President Barack Obama visited Ghana in...