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...

Why Kalu Hasn’t Taken Fashola to Court On Deportation

It is good to live in harmony and happiness. These were the words coming from an ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, when a select of journalists approached him on his return from Zimbabwe...

Oyerinde: Between David and the Behemoths

In this land of ours if the police breach your rights, the intervention of deities cannot save you. Woe betides you therefore if the police and the lawyers take you on - your own don finish...

Wike Has Lost The Rivers Power Tussle

It is not gentlemanly the statement that was credited to Barr. Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, the junior Minister of Education on August 3, 2013, at his Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI) rally in Port Harcourt, that he will make the state ungovernable...

Nigeria does not have insecurity problems

Are we indeed vulnerable individually and collectively? For me, if I am to respond to that question, I would do so first of all by juxtaposing and contextualising the idea of ‘insecurity’ with the acts of violence unleashed on us all by the Niger Delta militants vis-à-vis that of the Boko Haram Islamic sect...

Lagos Deportations and Crisis of Citizenship

The debate over Lagos State’s deportation of some Igbo elements to Anambra State has done two things at once. One, it has underlined the shakiness of the idea of one Nigeria. Then, two, in focusing too narrowly on an ethnic explanation, the debate has obfuscated what is a much broader, and fundamental, issue...

Color of Hope

There is general uneasiness and peace of the graveyard in Nigeria. The current state of the nation is disturbing to all concerned citizens who genuinely believe in the structural giant and greatness of Nigeria among the comity of nations...

Press Statement in Defense of the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Amb. Gbenga Ashiru

Over the years, I have patiently observed with pity the regular ignorant assertions by some persons who appropriate to themselves knowledge of things they know little or nothing about in Nigerian public affairs...

Ndigbo, Kalu says Fashola has kicked Against Discipline

The deportation of Ndigbo from Gov. Babatunde Fashola’s Lagos State has generated a lot of comments and is still generating more, with the ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, threatening to go to court...

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The Alluring Narrative of Tonye Princewill (Part2)

Apart from the role he played during the first ever musical reality show for orphanages organised by Melody Shelters in collaboration with Adonis Productions, to being a major facilitator of NNENDA, Prince Tonye has nonetheless showed unwavering love to the youth...

Sanusi the ‘Ogbonge’ Whistleblower…

Most disgruntled Nigerians consider themselves quintessential whistleblowers. And there can be none who is the undisputed champion of the lot than Lamido Sanusi, the suspended commander-in-chief of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN...

Hate is No Excuse: A Cursory Review of the Trayvon Martin Case

The reason for Zimmerman’s curious acquittal is said to be hinged on self-defense. For self-defense to be admissible in a criminal case, I submit that the danger to the person claiming self-defense must be intimidating...

Brig. Gen. Solomon Giwa–Amu, 1959-2008

As I write this, it’s beginning to look like nothing makes sense and would ever make sense anymore. As I write this, it’s becoming difficult every minute to make sense of what this life is all about…

Oil Subsidy Removal: Occupy Aso Rock Now!

This must be the worst New Year that Nigerians have celebrated since the civil war ended in 1970. The ill-advised removal of oil subsidy and the attendant increase in petrol price from N65 per liter to N130 per liter clearly indicate that Nigerian leaders are severely out of touch and roundly obtuse...

“Touch Not My Anointed and Do My Prophets No Harm”, said the Lord

Because wickedness reigns in the hearts of Luciferians and agents of darkness, they have tended to act to destroy the Sons and Daughters of God, especially when they find themselves in transient political appointments...

What Obasanjo Wants From Washington

OBJ gave up Charles Taylor in a dramatic manner to warm himself into the heart of George Bush on the eve of his scheduled meeting with the latter. He then uses this opportunity to lay out his agenda for Nigeria...

Political Killings – So, Who Is Next?

How did we descend to this abyss, where our politicians are intolerant of each other and would not allow a superior argument or candidate to win?

The More You Look the less you see: Chatham House 2015

I read with diligence and unmistakable pride, Buhari’s Chatham...

National Redundancy and Expensive Political Afterthoughts

From the bothering bordering Lake Chad up north to the overflowing Atlantic Ocean in the south, it is evident that Nigeria cannot even contend with natural events; what should we expect of man-made challenges?