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...

53 Years of Leadership Failures?

Nigeria has experienced 53 years of leadership failures. This is evident in the huge external debt, high rate of inflation, high level of poverty, bad monetary policy, high government spending, lack of fiscal discipline, increasing national debt, low foreign exchange reserve, high level of unemployment, stagnant income growth, high budget deficit and bad exchange rate among others...

A Look at Nigerian States’ Slogans

Some States have adopted somewhat desperate slogans for their number plates. Nassarawa is ‘Home of Solid Minerals’, but so what? The minerals are mostly mined by individuals who never make any returns to the Federal Government. Their resources are almost irrelevant to the rest of the country.

Why Is A Nation So Rich So Poor?

I am highlighting this news brew in case you missed it while bustling about in your business. I will bullet the points so you don’t forget easily...

Nigeria! My Nigeria at 53

Our problem started right from the time Nigeria was set free. Going by all records and accounts, Nigeria no doubt had well-meaning and intelligent politicians then but the virile seeds of discord were not absent. Tribalism and nepotism bared their fangs...

Anambra 2013: Ngige Stands Taller Than The Rest

The political ante in Anambra State is gradually inching to a climax with the fast approaching governorship election in the state coming up on November 16. The battle to elect who succeeds Governor Peter Obi is picking tempo as candidates emerge for the slug fest from diverse political parties...

2015 Presidential Election Outcome: A Threat To Nigeria’s Unity In Diversity

Our democracy is being tested. It consistently undergoes constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions. In the process, ideas battles with ideal...

The Colour of Dilemma: Dilemma of Colour

Dilemmas come in different shapes and magnitude; yet some are simply ridiculous and difficult to understand...

These Pugilist-leaders

The scuffle which was reported on September 17th 2013 to have occurred in Nigeria’s House of Representatives is a mark the that (dis)honournable members are showcasing their incompetence...

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Pledge To Nigera My Country

Does this mean I have lost hope in Nigeria? God forbid! Then why are my mad? I am mad at the present directionless, disjointed system and its operators; mad at the pseudo, largely contested entity called the Nigerian state, together with its equally artificial copy-cat institutions that are as weak as they are cosmetic...

Nigeria's Dangerously Rising Foreign Investment

Given how long-term growth prospects and macroeconomic sustainability are interwoven, securing the financial sector's soundness in the economy should never happen in isolation...

A Call on the British Prime Minister

I have chosen to write you as a result of the anarchy that was unleashed by many students who were protesting the planned increase in fees for college and university students in Britain...

Understanding Youth Conflict and Sustainable Initiative Model (3)

Conflict is one of the major concerns not only in any given continent, it also affects the international community as well. Conflict is simply the absence of peace, and the successive introduction of diversified sense of humor of people within the context of a community or society...

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...

Post Consolidation: How Safe Are Nigerian Banks?

No bank or nation really stands alone. So whenever a bank fails, there is concern that it may pull other banks down with it or reduce the confidence so essential to the banking industry...

How Affordable Is Justice To The Common Man?

It is said that if you close your eyes because you do not want to see evil, that good would also pass by unnoticed by you...

Nigeria is in Total Darkness

The total darkness experienced by the passengers inbound Nigeria...

Gov. T.A. Orji operates a cult-like government

Whenever I want to leave Gov. Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State alone in order to see if he will change the compass of his stranded way of governing that once glorious state of ours, something in me tells me that if others and I do, the governor will continue to live in a fool's paradise...

To The Nigerian Banks, PENCOM Co.

PENCOM does not engage in malpractices, but they have to understand that when one waits for three years and two months to receive his life-sustaining emoluments, he is justified to call on man and God...