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...

Today is the Future of the Nigerian Children

The children who are subjected to carry their family responsibilities today, without doubt, have a bleak future. Many are hidden from public view because of the harsh situations they work in...

Go Away, Ms Farida

In the course of life, there are certain things you don’t want to remember.  Really, truly, certain era are best forgotten.  Some names and people you don’t want to remember.  So I think it is the height of insensitivity for Mrs Farida Waziri to inflict herself on our consciousness again...

The Voodoo Man from Tahiti: Against Political Evil-doings in Nigeria

It is very disturbing that in the last two months, Nigerian politics has been full of “sound and fury” signifying stalled governance, near bankruptcy, proliferation of new political parties opposed to the ruling party...

Times Are Changing

Sometimes, it appears the easiest thing to do is to give up on Nigeria.  But that might be the cowardly way to go.  We shouldn’t do that just yet.  So we should grab on to any cheery news that comes down the pike...

Why the North is playing pranks with the presidency…

This is a product of my friendly Facebook spat with my oga. Recently, somebody posted on facebook that our president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had stormed out of a meeting with his political papa, Otunba OBJ...

Gani Fawehinmi: Our Icon Of Inspiration

I am dwarfed to write on Late Chief Gani Oyesola Fawehinmi SAM, SAN. Chief Gani who died exactly four years ago...

Gov. Amaechi Won’t Die

One of the ways to live is to be diligent. We live for something and, most times, die for something. But fear is worse than death...

We are Danbaba Suntai…

If anybody had told me that we would be playing a broken record of the antecedents of the unfortunate demise of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua so soon, I would not have believed it. But here we are...

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Yar’Adua, Our Puppet President: A Response to Reuben Abati

If Obasanjo or his cronies were to plan a military coup today with his scions in the barracks, and notifies Yar’Adua by cable, my bet is that Yar’Adua will simply sit and await the execution of such coup...

In Gov Abiola Ajimobi, Did We Get What We Wanted?

With Ajimobi, the jury is still out. So far and so early, it appears to be a mixed bag. We have a governor who has embarked on a deliberate effort at ridding the state of Alao-Akala’s unqualified and incompetent political appointee...

Oil Gas Industry Activity and the Niger Delta Environment: The Role of Environmental Law

Practically all stages and operations of oil & gas exploration and production are accompanied by undesirable discharges of solid, liquid and gaseous wastes. They include many hundreds of individual hazardous compounds...

The Urgency of an Emergency

I was out of town last Saturday when a...

Tinubu: Address Present Economic Depression In Nigeria

By Abiola Daisy Igaga & Bartholomew Okuodo Since the swearing...

The Real World Nigerians Live In

Sometimes I imagine myself as an alien; a being...

Biafra: The Future Is Now!

Last week some misguided Arewa youths in Kaduna issued...

American Thanksgiving: A Reflection for Nigeria

The best way to predict the future is to...

When Power Corrupts: The Tumultuous Tale of Alex Mascot Ikwecheg

In a viral incident that has gripped the nation,...

‘Restitutio In Integrum’ In Iraq

The Iraqi war and the attendant destruction that took place will long be remembered as a war which two young Euro-American leaders prosecuted absolutely without a just cause and with little caution...