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...

Partial Press Freedom Threatens Democracy

Many newsmen have been detained in Nigeria by the authorities without trial, or any judicial or legal authorisation followed...

Political Stargazers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria

There are professional politicians in Nigeria, whose morbid preoccupation is with how to become President.  This alluring obsession with power is insatiable and ill-defined...

The Era of Disclosures: Nothing is hidden under the Sun

The changing nature of Nigerian politics now opens the door into disclosures of matters that were hidden in the closet of time...

German Company flaws Abia State Government on Waste management Project

There was an announcement made by the Abia State Government in July 2012. It told the world that it would partner with a German company on waste management project in the state...

Treason Charge Against Uwazuruike and co. Is Hokum

It is horrendous how the Federal Government okays amnesty for a terrorist group such as Boko Haram, even by going on its knees to beg...

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...

Ngala Eight-Eight

I’ve lived in America for more than twenty years. It’s a society that automatically views the caning of children as a form of abuse, bordering on torture. Make no mistake: I thoroughly enjoyed my youthful indiscretions, but didn’t find it funny when it came time to pay the price by being caned...

Scintillators of Primitive Politics: Nigerian Ruling Class Chalantry and Our Marginalized Under-Class

I start with our marginalized under-class.  They are those who did not have the benefit of enlightenment in their youth...

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I thank God for Esther, ADC Plane Crash Survivor

It is not often that one happens to personally know the survivor of an accident not to talk of the survivor of a deadly plane crash...

Managerial Problem Of The UN

Washington has allowed issues irrelevant to American commitment to the UN to intrude. The US must pay its debts just like any other nation. Congress must immediately stop hectoring the UN...

Governors’ Quest To Sack Ringim

The problem is not with Ringim, but with the Nigerian system. If a critical and proper analysis of the police under Ringim is taken, we would be shocked to the marrow that Ringim could not be directly held responsible for the woes of the country....

When the going gets TOO TOUGH!

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going”...

Our Poor Economy: The Need To Chart A New Course

Unfortunately not many Nigerians believe the economic conditions are much better now than they were before Obasanjo's emergence in the political scene in 1999...

Death of Small Nigerian Businesses

Recently some traders in a certain part of Nigeria...

NYSC: National Youth Service Corps or National Youth Slaughtering Corps?

It goes without saying, however, that due to matters arising, the time has come for us to go back to the drawing board with an eraser and wipe out certain programmes, schemes, etc., which have outlived their usefulness or at least have been rendered moot by certain happenings in certain quarters...

Celebrities on “The Princess Halliday Show”

One of the most important television shows in the world is kicking off on DSTV this February. It is an Empower Africa Initiative show...

Selling the Nigerian Politician

Ever since President Goodluck Jonathan announced to his friends on Facebook that he was going to seek nomination of his party to run for president, the battle seemed to have been also transferred online. The missing link, however, remains the way many of the politicians who joined the social media bandwagon use such platforms to engage the voters...

Between Abati’s Curious Ghost Stories and Goodluck Jonathan’s Fairy Tales

When I saw Reuben Abati, former Special Adviser to...