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...

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

Whether the world would take Gov. Orji seriously in the future is left for the world. But the fact remains that he has disappointed the trust the people once had for him...

The Nigerian Factor

By the formula of wear and tear, by the coefficients of nature and universality, all things can't be equal...

Nigeria: Where Cometh Our Help? (2)

Our nation is blessed with great men and women scattered all over the world and across all endeavors. These individuals are in medicine and astronomy, aeronautics engineering and space science, business and Law, sports and politics, and they are making Nigeria proud...

Vanilla Ice-cream Corruption and the Inevitable Banana Peel Exit with Drums

Long live corruption!!! Without stealing state funds, how can a coterie of poorly educated, morally bankrupt compatriots fly private jets, live in mansions...

Gov. T.A. Orji Makes History On How Not To Spend Abia Money

The City Reporters freshly surprised us with another dishonorable feat that Gov. Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State has achieved...

Ali Baba And The Forty Thieves – Oshiomhole's Response To Obj's 18-Page Letter To President Goodluck Jonathan

Was it not this same Oshiomhole the OBJ administration gave the Nigerian Labour "Slush Fund" a sovereign fund meant to cushion the effect of striking workers...

Before it REALLY is Too Late

Some Nigerians with a sense of history and enough patriotic blood in their veins have tried to remind our power-drunk political leaders that at this rate, we may be inadvertently inviting the military to truncate our democracy.  Rather than heed their advice, our leaders put their blinders on as if merely wishing away coups is enough to prevent one...

Obasanjo, Jonathan, the Message and the Messenger

There is little doubt that the recent letter by former President Olusegun Obasanjo to the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan has greatly rattled the president, his men and his supporters. The letter did nothing to mask the angst of Obasanjo who was at his sanctimonious best, as he reeled out a long litany of the misdeeds of Jonathan...

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The Ruler-for-Life Syndrome in the Third World and the Danger of a Protracted Conflict in Libya (2)

The purpose of this write up is to briefly explore the ruler-for-life syndrome among leaders of Third World countries and the issue of whether NATO’s military intervention in the Libyan civil war is contributing to the elongation of the conflict rather than shortening it...

Tobi Amusan: The Legend Nigeria Doesn’t Deserve, But Desperately Needs

In a country drowning in political scandals, corruption, and...

Africa and the Pestilence of Imported Gods (3)

How can a society hand over its head on a platter to a conqueror because he asked for it? How can a people yield their gods to be decapitated or burnt at the conqueror’s fires simply because the conqueror just showed up, knocked on the door and politely asked for that?

Africa is Leaving Nigeria Behind!

With mouth agape, a friend of mine, on a first visit to Ghana, narrated how efficient the country works and how far behind we have been left as a nation. On another occasion, he was with a top Ghanaian player in the Nigerian private sector and the story was how perfectly efficient sectors that fumble and wobble in Nigeria work so well in Ghana...

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...

Tragedy Without Majesty

President Barack Obama recently described Libya as a "mess"...

Amaechi’s Sanitation Decision The Frustration Of Residents

Majority of the Rivers masses are today laughing at people like Ige, who saw the Ikoku spare parts market as the only place where poor sanitary condition was in Port Harcourt, and shut it...

The Nigerian Educational System –A Deceitful View

In Nigeria, the educational sector is similar to the flat wheel on which were sequential images of students going to school, studying for JAMB, NECO, WAEC and degree exams. When examinations were conducted, the students were “seen” to pass their exams. But in reality, the students do not pass...

ERA Removes Nnimmo Bassey, Appoints New Board

The Environmental Rights Action, ERA & Friends of the...

Africa – A Continent on the Chopping Block

Africa has had very tragic intercourse with the world...