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...

Simple questions for this new APC

Last week, our conclusion as citizens and students of politics was that the most fascinating political formation in the country at the moment is the newly formed All Peoples Congress...

Port Harcourt And The Criminal Activities!

The sudden and violent outbursts of power-mongers rowdies are often triggered by the authorities’ failing to meet their unlawful demands...

The best of Gov. T.A. Orji

Orji has refused to budge for progress. The only progress his government is making is to manufacture nasty stories against anyone who dares to pinpoint these facts...

Igbo Vs. Yoruba

Regrettably, some Nigerian commentators – specifically, Igbo and Yoruba tribal warriors - are also beginning to wreck my enjoyment of Saharareporters and other Nigerian internet-based discussion forums...

2015 Presidency: If I Were Rochas Okorocha…

From the mouth of his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, we heard that Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha is interested in contesting the 2015 presidential election...

Nigerians In Diaspora: A Catalyst For Poverty Reduction, Political And Economic Development Of Nigeria

The Nigerian Government under president Goodluck Jonathan's government appreciates the role Nigerians in Diaspora are playing in the development of the country through their expertise and remittance of money...

What APC owes Nigerians

Given that politics in Nigeria is based on and practised with no reference to ideology, very strange things can easily happen in Nigerian politics. Its actors are prone to improvising and changing their plots and paths when least a rational thinker expects it...

Governor Abiola Ajimobi and Oyo State in a Hurry

I had often heard that Oyo State was difficult to govern and Ibadan, in particular, was impossible. And I had often wished I governed the State one day….just for one day…so that I could demonstrate exactly how to govern the State...

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It Is Christ Who Died

It is the blood of Jesus and not your tithes that will set you free from Prosperity pastors, especially those of them, who collect money from robbers!

Foreign Prostitution Made In Nigeria

In Nigeria, making money has no rules of engagement as everything is thrown into the scramble for the Naira, Pound Sterling, Euro and Dollars...

SOARism-Africanism; Re-Defining Democracy In Africa

In our present political system, rhetoric and mediocrity have gained ground at the expense of true democracy...

Osun guber: Lessons from Ekiti (1)

The off-cycle election in Ekiti State, which secured the...

Why The NYSC Should Be Abolished Now

The cost of allowing the NYSC to remain far outweighs its benefits and a rapid, dramatic rule driven by the intent to create a model for future leaders, augmented with a requirement that qualifications and fairness be used in hiring our new graduates will perhaps set a portal towards a balanced approach to eradicating corruption at some levels...

What manner of representation is this?

Can any Nigerian among the many who are daily buffeted by sundry poor service providers ever walk into the office of any parliamentarian anywhere in the country and get heard and helped in any way? Do most Nigerians even know the constituency offices of their so-called representatives?

The Niger Delta and Nigeria

Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, especially with the Niger Delta and all the issues surrounding it. Things are degenerating very fast in this region and only sincere, focused, impartial and committed leaders will be able to defuse these problems, or else there will be no North, South, Niger Delta or indeed, Nigeria for anybody to call their own...

Paul Adujie and the EFCC List: Making a Mockery of Justice

It was wrong - wrong in law and wrong in basic decency - for the EFCC to release a list of allegedly corrupt officials and then imply that the listed are guilty. If the EFCC has the evidence, let them go to Court...

Osamuyia Aikpitanhi: Matters Arising

Does it really matter much whatever the late Osamuyia had done to warrant such violent eviction from the Spanish space?

Ambassador John Campbell’s Doomsday Prophecy

Reading Mr Campbell’s essay, you can’t help but sympathise with Mr. Segun Aganga, Nigeria’s new Minister of Trade and Investment as his job has just been made much more challenging as he begins a mighty task of convincing foreign investors to come to Nigeria...