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...

Should We Go And Die Just Because Of Oshiomhole?

Nigeria is not a nation – not a nation like the English or French or the Welsh. It is a geographical entity and contraption sold to the British government by the Royal Niger Company...

Delta: The Third Force to the Rescue

When in 1999 an apparently diabolical team swarmed into government in Delta State we little expected that their vicious and dreadful siege on our treasury would last for sixteen years...

About Life’s Tragedies

One thing about impartial, dead reality is that ubiquitous tragedies - feared guests you hate to have at your table - imperiously find their uncheerful, rugged routes to your life anyway. Tragedies are ostensibly mere alien stories when you are not a victim of their brutality...

Ngwa and the ‘Hosanna in the Highest’ for Gov. T.A. Orji

Ngwa people, who are much respected in not only Abia State, but to a great extent in Nigeria, are on the verge of losing their respect. Their barefaced endorsement of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji as the singular candidate of the People's Democratic Party...

Congratulations President Jonathan, You Have Just Been Re-Elected!

PDP is the worst thing that ever happened to politics in Africa. Run by greedy, crazy people who don’t care about tomorrow, they destroyed many states, especially my home state of Osun...

The Igbo Fallacy

In truth, the gruesome, senseless and depressingly cold murder of a Nigerian of Igbo fount in India, and the ceaseless profusion of crimson Hindustan xenophobic outrages towards Nigerians vivify curious ponderings, somber, sober reflections and unkind truths about the sojourning Igbo...

Gov. Amaechi and the Benefits In APC

No matter how the PDP prides and tell Nigerians and by extension the world, that these persons who left the party do not hinder the progress of the party, it is covering its face in
humiliation...

One Good Thing About Nigeria – The Love Lesson

Very few uplifting things are spoken and written about Nigeria. Even people who derive their daily bread from government speak ill about the nation. To the skeptics, everything is bad at home...

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Tasks before South-West Development Commission

There are question marks about the proliferation of ‘development...

Are the Meek Inheriting The Earth in Nigeria?

In Nigeria today, the standard that established what is good or bad has been replaced by get-rich-quick syndrome – at all cost. These days, many Christians have abandoned the "Old churches" that have failed to adjust to the new trend of posterity teachings...

Oteh vs. Hembe=Nigeria’s Loss

In Nigeria, tragedy often wears the garb of comedy. Last week’s duel featured Arunma Oteh and Herman Hembe as the principal adversaries. Ms. Oteh is the director-general of the Securities and Exchange Commission; Mr. Hembe the chairman of the House of Representatives’ committee on the capital market...

No More Delay

Sometime in November, 1996, an undergraduate University student made...

Yar’Adua’s death and debt to history

Umaru Yar’Adua’s death last week at the age of 58 was not enough, in the end, to settle the man’s debt to history. One was not surprised that the man’s passing provoked that rather predictable brand of biographical revisionism that death encourages in us...

Last last, the Peter Obi Cookie will crumble easily

Two things made the sudden rise of Peter Obi...

Ghana as Nigerians’ investments haven

It is disheartening to note that even long before the advent of the continued economic and financial meltdown, which started manifesting late 2008, and still troubles the global economy up till now, a sizeable number of Nigerian businesses apparently, had found the country’s business climate tough and unfriendly...

What Common Sense Requires

If you sample the opinions of the so-called “most enlightened” segment of the populace as to what constitutes the most formidable challenge – out of a multitude - militating against Nigeria’s development and growth, the major answer that is likely to emanate from such an enquiry is “bad leadership”...

Great achievements, ideas and innovations have eluded South East Governors

Ideas and innovations do not wait until resources are available to act. Rather they are the precursors of capital and resources...

The PMBAT Curse: A Nation Shackled to a Mythology of Bad Luck?

In ancient Greek mythology, Castor and Pollux— the celestial...