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...

Igbos In Lagos State: My Experience

Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, identify with it, and settle in it. That compact was made the moment Nigeria became a single nation...

Gov. T.A. Orji Insults ex-Gov. Mbakwe

Many Nigerians know today that the Gov. Theodor Ahamefule Orji administration in Abia State is an expert in telling lies and in the use of propaganda to discredit opposing views...

Where is the Book File…?

At the inception of the administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, he initiated a ‘Bring Back the Book’ programme – the assumption once more was that our people had replaced the love they once had for books for love for money and the acquisition of material wealth...

Femi Fani-Kayode’s Tangled Web (Part 2)

Modern cities thrive on integration, not excluivism. If Yoruba residents in Owerri are hounded by the Imo State government I will condemn it. Lagos is not ‘no man’s land.’ Every inhabitable land on earth is owned by man...

Obasanjo and the Quest for Statesmanship

Why is our nation, home to brilliant minds, rich traditions, rich in natural and mineral resources and centuries of wisdom, culture and morality, withering in poverty while most other nations rapidly move ahead of us?

Metaphor for Olaitan Oyerinde…

Since February 14 when the National Assembly conducted a public hearing on the dastardly murder of Olaitan Oyerinde, we have not heard the outcome. And that is why we must make calls to the Inspector General of Police...

Ndigbo and Fani-Kayode’s Crass Irresponsibility

Ordinarily, one would have dismissed Fani-Kayode’s vituperations as the ranting of a sick mind because no sane person can celebrate the slaughtering of fellow human beings in their thousands as he did...

Femi Fani-Kayode’s Tangled Web (Part 1)

Fani-Kayode wrote that the Igbo introduced tribalism in Southern Nigerian politics. He capitalised on the statements of Charles Daddy Onyeama and Nnamdi Azikiwe to buttress this charge. Onyeama allegedly declared that it was only a matter of time before the Igbo dominated Nigeria and Africa...

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Going Brrrrrrh on the Creative Side of Advertising

In present times, advertising via whatever means, has gone highly cerebral while scintillatingly appealing to all the senses of already captured or potential customers...

The Ram

Skido had never bought a Ram in all his life. Each Christmas he watched with envy how his neighbours slit the throats of animals in preparation for the great feast. Such was his embarrassment at only being able to afford a mere chicken...

Bible, Science, Creation, Civilization and Eternity

Science as the study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world and society agrees with scriptures at the end of the day if thorough observation and quality experiment is carried out...

Davido and the Burden of Truth

Last Saturday, I attended the reunion party of the...

Fulani Herdsmen: A Road Not Taken

The title of this piece, “Road Not Taken” was...

Time for Nigeria to leave WTO

Confronted with stagnating domestic markets, declining absolute profits, and the need to evacuate  redundant dollars overseas, the Rockefeller-led neoliberal globalists believed it was time for global economic restructuring in a way that would break down all barriers to international trade and investment...

Nigeria: To Be Or Not To Be? (Part 2)

The question before us is should Nigeria remain as one country? Given the present fraudulent Constitution that deprives bonafide owners of the right to the use of their land,, mineral and human resources first and foremost for their own development, the best option for the south in general is to break away from the North...

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...

Global Conquest of Nigerian Literature

I can never get tired of celebrating Nigerian literature,...

Pages in Life: Mama Bookworm (2)

As a young child, constantly watching and hearing my mother's pain as she struggled with trying to raise five children from a bad marriage with little help, I learned to be quiet and somewhat withdrawn in public...