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...

GEJ’s National Dialogue for Self-Preservation?

Human experience indicates that whenever you see an old dog discover a new trick, one should ask good questions. Hence, the national skepticism that has greeted the discovery of national conference religion by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan...

Gov. T.A. Orji and the Budget of Hopelessness

Governance ought to be a complete public business, not a complete personal business. Our people would have suggested to the governor that borrowing is part of governance, but only when it is done reasonably...

Gov. Okorocha, forgive T.A. Orji

Governor Okorocha, it is my firm belief that you have forgiven Gov. Orji, because he operates like a hypnotized person. I’ve told you of how he is quarreling with everybody he has had political or social differences with...

The Problem with Nigeria (2)

Look around and you might notice the disgraceful sight of various ethnic social cultural groups parading themselves as serving the interest of their tribes and people...

The Problem with Nigeria

I love my country no be small. But, I have, just like many other citizens of this great giant of Africa, long been aware that there are some problems confronting this beloved nation...

Abia: A Land of Agberos

We have read or heard about the different relocations of peoples in Abia State that mainly comprise traders from one point to another. But what we were not told was how many of the traders could not get accommodations in the places they were transferred to...

Bursary won’t save Gov. T.A Orji

A state that would pay bursary to Abia students across the country is the one that was in 2012 unable to pay the six percent and 15 percent increase in pension, which most states in the
country have effected...

Sovereign National Conference: Misguided Approach

It is well over 50 years since the rein of government passed fully to Nigerians and I am still amazed that some people in different quarters still believe that we need to discuss or convene a conference to solve or discuss the national question. Ultimately, the question has already started...

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Nigeria at 50: Independence Speech of Obafemi Awolowo

Officially, three of us - Balewa, Zik and me - were invited a few months ago to grace this golden occasion of our great nation, but we decided not to come to express our grievances on the bad state of the country....

Irreverent Personality Cultism, Arrant Bigmanism Stultify National Consciousness

The grand passion of Nigeria’s under class and marginalized under-achievers is to talk familiarly with “exalted personages” and entertain them with buffoonery...

Being an African in America Circa 2014

I am a Nigerian who has been living in...

Galala, Alanta are Echoes Of ‘Suffration’ In Ajegunle

There are allegations that some ghetto soldiers who fought so gallantly to highlight the plight of the ghetto in their songs seem to abandon it just as soon as the big bucks start rolling in...

When African Social Movements Go Global

In this brief article, I address how the model of sociopolitical resistance adopted by the social movements associated with the World Social Forum operates within the African continent. By operating under the umbrella of the World Social Forum, social movements become visible and intelligible within a global context...

Implications of Bad Leadership and the Collapse of Global Oil on Nigeria’s Economy

Since the discovery of oil in the South-South region...

Uniting Nigerian children to fight climate change

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has shown a well deserved approbation: He was vigilant in seeing the importance of children beyond their believed exclusive assignments of classroom and domestic chores...

Remembering Ken Saro-Wiwa @ 82

Kenule Beeson Saro-Wiwa, famously known as Ken Saro-Wiwa, would...

Nigeria: The Task Ahead

History is such a powerful tool in many ways...

Hurdles Before ‘President’ Dele Momodu

Dele Momodu is befuddled with glamour, paparazzi and flashing lights that he might not fathom the darkness that has covered most parts of the nation. The glitz of showbiz could also make it impossible for him to conjure up ways of tackling the looming dim that spells doom for Nigeria...