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...

No Tears For PDP

PDP, that party that flatters itself as the biggest party in Africa, is strapped to a death bed. It is hit with a serious ailment. It is ravaged by schism and implosion from within...

Spineless GEJ Learnt Nothing from Brutish OBJ: What a Shame!

No matter what you thought of Olusegun Obasanjo’s leadership of the country and the PDP, you almost wished that OBJ was back in charge; for he had a strong spine. I cannot imagine ANY governor walking out on OBJ...

She Gives Birth On The Road

My people! the woman is a miracle. Her hands are 'clean'. But I'm not sure what could have happened if there were no women who still wear wrapper to give the woman cover, as she lay beside the road, because many women these days loathe to wear wrapper...

From Kano with Love

Democracy includes the maintenance and the nurturing of effective State structures and organs in an efficient and fair manner.  Democracy involves listening to your people and acting in everyone’s behalf.  That is, the leadership must be accountable to the people, and human rights must be respected...

VOP or VIP?

No one gives a hoot what new party springs up. Nigerians’ minds are already made up that a new party is just like a new church or mosque springing up next door where the principal is after one and only one thing-MONEY!

Femi Fani-Kayode May Be Right!

In the blind rage to throw FFN under the bus, in front of the train, and later into the River Niger, all of us have conveniently forgotten to address the more salient points he made...

Only Gov. T.A. Orji Will Vote For Jonathan In 2015

Some persons resort to exhibiting the trait of madness in whatever thing they do and have the philosophy that there is freedom and safety in madness...

Kalu, T.A. Orji and the MASSOB Curse

What our people have come to endure in Gov. Orji’s government are multiple taxations, intimidation by security agents and gross dilapidated infrastructure that cut across all the areas in the state...

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Nigeria Governors Forum And The Plot To Remove Amaechi

In leadership, you do not expect the leader to be championing the cause of others other than those he or she was elected to head or spearhead. In my estimation, I think Amaechi has done well in this area...

'ThisDay', Nduka Obaigbena And His Powerful Friends!

Just last week Thursday bombs went off in 'ThisDay' offices in Kaduna and Abuja claiming lives and registering other casualties. Boko Haram, the dreaded bomb-wielding terrorist organization terrorising the north claimed responsibility...

The US Immigration Debate

Because of what America is and because of what America offers, there may never be a fail-safe or perfect immigration policy...

I Believe Atiku!

A lot of us hardly took Atiku seriously even when he apologized to the nation for assisting President Obasanjo put us through some very harrowing reformatory experiences...

THISDAY, Lawrence Summers, and the Future of Africa

Obaigbena and his editors, in their infinite wisdom, have concluded that two representatives of American market fundamentalism are in the most auspicious position to perorate on “the challenges of Nigeria’s policy and market environment”. If we are lucky, the two Americans may even “proffer solutions” to our market challenges...

Do You Ever Wonder…

Some readers are pissed at the eclecticism of my essays. Others are perturbed at my analysis and conclusion. A few others think I have taken to the quicksand. For me, most things are neither black nor white...

Africans Must Stand Up To Be Counted Or Africans Will Not Count In America

The United States government attaches a value of $400 billion dollars in federal dollars and political representation for the benefit of all residents of the United States. This can be lost or diminished through apathy, undercount and ignorance...

Governor Kalu of Abia State Should Shut Up!

Governor Kalu of Abia State is the PDP enfant terrible! He often speaks before he thinks! It has become a common practice among some Nigerians to behave like Governor Kalu. While hiding under the immunity clause of our constitution, they break our laws...

Yes, INEC Has Lost The Game

It is necessary to state from the very outset that whatever difficulties INEC claims to be facing currently in the discharge of its constitutional responsibility – conduct of free, fair and credible polls – were avoidable...

Be a Part of History

About 100 years ago, the Spanish flu wiped out...