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...

Abia and Gov. Orji’s Social and Economic life

There is no need for a microscope to know that definitely, so many things are wrong with Gov. Orji and his government. And unless these perceived wrongs are corrected, Abia State will continue to exist at the non-performing level...

Who is Afraid of the National Conference (II)

Politicians are schemers. Their effective involvement or participation in any deliberation or legislation depends on the “benefit” they expect as an individual or the anticipated benefits to their constituency. In Nigeria’s situation, the reason is more of the former than the later...

Gov. T.A. Orji’s reforms of Deception

Whatever the government calls development is not development in the real sense of the word. Gov. T.A. Orji is bent on developing his friends and cronies without acquiring immeasurable values for Abia State. The state is today a beehive of charlatans and security agents...

A City in the Grip of Criminals

It is midday already, and there are stabbing reports of robbery attacks at different locations in the city. One knifing report says a group of shoppers were leisurely dispossessed of their belongings at a shopping plaza...

Empowerment Meets Militancy: Commissioner, TV Host and Four Germans Held Hostage

I tried to find out from the protesting militants the reason behind the anger. I am ashamed to write that they said they were angry that after the training, the government did not pay them for "wasting" three months learning. As the destruction and riot continued, the Empowerment Support Initiative and the NDDC sent a negotiating team who even went as far as offering the irate youths fifty thousand Naira each...

Nigeria: Where Cometh Our Help? (1)

When the future of a nation is left swathed up in warts in the hands of platoons of tomfoolery and retrogrades, a double-edged sword of endemic and pandemic automatically become the results, and the entire citizenry feel the effect of the quotidian lancination that did not emerge in paroxysm...

Mandela’s Legacy: Nigeria’s Pride

Population and size being the two greatest factors which conferred on her a leadership role, in addition to her ever growing cache of resources resulting from the oil boom, Nigeria threw her support behind the liberation efforts of South Africa which would ultimately end in Nelson Mandela’s release...

The Intellectual Content of Nigerian Politics

By intellectual content, I mean that fulcrum where one finds and interlocks philosophical, legal, political and sundry ideas that assist humans to form the synthesis for solving societal problems...

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Gov. Amaechi and PDP’s Visible Regret

From the look of things, it does not require the help of a soothsayer to tell the world that the People's Democratic Party, PDP, has been regretting and also fighting already lost wars...

Governing For The Good Of The People: President Yar’adua’s Challenge

It will come as no surprise, I think, to the president, that increasing numbers of Nigerians, out of bitter experience, have over time become mistrustful of their governments and their ability to govern for their good...

Meeting A Hero

Dreams do come true. And no one has it happened to more than me. Here I was standing in a room packed full of seasoned diplomats, reputable public servants and private business owners awaiting the arrival of my hero...

Electricity: Cessation of Compulsory Bill Payment after Disconnection

The news about the directive or rather order by...

The British Church: Strategies for addressing the dichotomy between White and Black

This paper makes an attempt to explore solutions to some questions facing the British churches operating in a climate of different and diverse cultures?  It explores whether division into separate churches is a way forward to address the differences and diversities? 

Open Letter To President Goodluck Jonathan

We were probably most democratic in pre-October 1960 under the British Colony when the people were more in participation with the national integration. Soon after that, our journey has been in the valleys of various non-democracies, all of course installed in our name...

Exposing the “Ember Month” Scam: A Call for True Christian Living

In many Nigerian churches, a pattern emerges like clockwork...

For the Avoidance of Doubt: Time and Tide wait for No one

During the weekly review of Nigerian affairs by the...

Minimum Wage Brouhaha, Salary Payment Punch-ups

If governance is all about tackling and surmounting daunting challenges on entirely sacrificial note with huge results, you will need the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and David Ben-Gurion. Those beautiful ones are not yet born in Nigeria...

The Future of Igbos Under Delta State (Anioma) Presidency

There are many ways through which unbridled unity can be achieved among the Igbo through the creation of a sense of oneness. Arguments from both sides of the divide should be greatly scrutinized and attended to...