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...

Security, Religion and Citizenship: Unresolved National issues

When critical national issues threatening our fragile federation unity is discussed, emotions and partisan outburst overpower and configure the response and outcome to the issue...

Nigeria's Governors' Forum Election Saga: Echoes Of A Morally Bankrupt Political Entity

Ordinarily, who becomes the chairperson of a non-statutory organization like the Nigerian Governors' Forum should not evoke any public commentaries because it does not confer on who becomes the Chairperson any usufructuary benefits...

A Case For Canceling The 2015 Elections

Once again, Nigeria has entered an awful, familiar season. The country’s air is rent with talk of power. Not electric power, no; we’re talking raw political power! And the general elections of 2015 seem to have concentrated the mind of every politician in Nigeria...

President Jonathan’s Legacy: A Lesson For Posterity

In the area of corruption, this administration has become the most corrupt and inept leadership since the military era. Many professional political praise singers are quick to argue that the president alone cannot tackle corruption...

Encounter with Chinua Achebe: A Critique of Traditional Igbo Society

Upon my return to Lagos in February, 1974, I was commissioned by the US Embassy in Lagos to interview the author of Things Fall Apart, for publication in their magazine...

Where the rain began to beat us

I do not completely agree that the cause of the  Nigerian predicament is corruption. Corruption, I agree is a problem in this country, but it is just a symptom of a larger problem...

In Achebe's company 'the prison walls fell down'

In the couple of months following his death up to his burial, the world has risen in unison to celebrate Chinua Achebe as a man universally acclaimed to be the father of modern African literature and as the man who used literature to bring Africa to the world...

A Stiff Sentence for a Pickpocket Con Man

Had the notion occurred to, and the possibility existed for, Kelvin Ighodalo to have sought the counsel of a Careers’ Adviser prior to embarking upon his chosen career, for which he is now to spend an extended period behind bars; he might have been counselled to pursue a career path in Nigerian politics...

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The Chinese Bamboo Tree: A Lesson in Perseverance, Patience and Persistence

In life, there will be challenging times. You can work on your dreams for weeks, months and even years with no visible signs of progress and then, all of a sudden, things take off. People who patiently toil towards their dreams and goals, building strong character while overcoming adversity and challenge, grow the strong internal structure to handle success when it eventually comes...

The Average Nigerian And God

The average Nigerian does not know God! The God that he knows is the God of his belly. The God that serves him and not the God that he serves. The insular, parochial and partial God! The God of his “open doors” and “breakthroughs.” The God that strangles his enemies for him...

“Igbo Rising” Soars From The Stable Of Gerald Eze

The debut album, “Igbo Rising”, by the phenomenal Gerald...

Of Border Closure and Custom Officials

I followed the posts on borders and the Custom...

Prosperity, Eternity (17): In all our Dealings and Giving, think Jerusalem, Israel!

We can only say here: May we extend the breast of our consolation today to Israel; may we have a bosom for Jerusalem now, and her own ever flourishing breast of consolation shall be ours throughout eternity...

Strange Things Have Happened In Nigeria

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998...

The Social Revolution Of Nigeria (2)

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Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of SAYLC-UK: A Noble Cause

Let’s pass it on to our children. “The great...

The Familiar Road of Damnation

Protest is all the rage in Nigeria today. Democracy allows...