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...

'Ochichi Nchigbu' In Abia State

Abia State in south-east Nigeria is known as "God's Own State" with Umuahia as the capital city. The Executive Governor is one 'Ochendo' Theodore Ahamefule Orji who made some history by becoming the first man to be 'elected' Governor while on the EFCC detention facility in Lagos for corruption charges...

There Will Be No Revolution In Nigeria: Iwa Lanwo Iwa

Those who have been calling for revolution in Nigeria do not mean well for Nigeria. Some are disgruntled elements who are not well-placed any more in the scheme of things and so are unhappy about their irrelevance...

The Slave-Master In Uyo

When you compare Jerome Cahuzac with the profligate Governor of Akwa Ibom state, for example, you are likely going to come out with what is wrong with us as a nation: leadership ineptitude! The squandermania we are witnessing in Uyo and its environs by Godswill Akpabio must bring out the indignation in every patriot...

The favour Godswill Akpabio did us all

If we want to be honest then we cannot but admit that Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, is not the only leading political figure in Nigeria indictable for manipulating electoral process in his party and in the country...

The Leadership Newspaper Vs. Reuben Abati

These days, I get easily angered by events happening in Nigeria. But probably nothing has riled me more than the latest garbage that emanated from the warped orifice of Reuben Abati, GEJ’s special adviser on media and publicity...

Our Clueless President…

I first saw that irresponsible phrase on Facebook after those bokoharamic bombs began to fall on churches in the North. Our people were aghast at the seeming inability of the ‘government’ to do something about the very well organised arrangement by very well placed persons to give the dog a bad name and hang it...

The Apotheos-ification of Nigerian Leaders and Political Elites

A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and, at times god-like public image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise. A cult of personality is similar to hero worship...

My Farm, your country

About two or three weeks ago, one court in one oyinbo country gave judgement against four Nigerian farmers in the Niger-Delta. Their farms, their only sources of livelihood were destroyed from the oil spills from the activities of Shell, a multinational crude oil prospecting company...

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Celebrating The Nigerian Political Amazons

The women in Nigerian politics have come a long way.  Theirs has been a very thorny and torturous journey through a very narrow and murky path in the nation’s political jungle...

Obama’s Victory and British Immigration

Barack Obama’s victory scored a rebuke on the cultural foundations of our own immigration policy. Here immigration is seen as a means of bringing people as fillers for vacancies of jobs we don’t do...

Daunting state of education in Northern Nigeria

By Isah Aliyu Chiroma “Education is the passport to the...

Death of Edo State Procurement Law 2020?

Section 10 of the Edo State Public Procurement Law...

Obasanjo and the Consciousness of Guilt

"Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a...

My Dear Nigerians, Ebola is Here, Do Not Trivialize This

There is a tendency in this country called Nigeria for us to trivialize everything. When a serious issue comes up and gets widespread attention, instead of attaching the importance that it demands to it, we look for a way to turn it into a joke...

Still On Odi And The Mad Dog Syndrome

6 years down the line, the evil handiwork of beastly soldiers has now begun to manifest in the large numbers of fatherless children in Odi who were sired when their innocent mothers were savagely raped and beaten repeatedly into submission by the mad dogs...

Goodluck Jonathan: The Emerging Profile

Come to think of it: who is afraid of Goodluck Jonathan? Who is afraid of the Vice President acting as or becoming the President of Nigeria? Who? Why?

Diplomatic Faux Pas

Some diplomatic observers informed me that when the Nigerian Foreign Minister, Chief Ojo Maduekwe, visited Washington, sometime ago, he was not received by the US Secretary of State, but by a lesser official. According to the doctrine of reciprocity, the Nigerian Foreign Minister “was not disposed to receive” the US Secretary of State at the airport in Abuja...

Adegboyega Oyetola: Reflections on leadership and legacy

"And reckon (people) by the number of years, so...