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...

Nigeria: A Clime of the Incongruous

The Nigerian Judiciary should be reminded that it is setting a dangerous precedent.  If our justice system continues to give such miserly prison terms to these unrepentant and conscienceless rogues who have made it a habit to ravage or despoil the commonwealth of Nigerians, what is it then telling the future leaders of this country?

Only a Rented Crowd Can Be Against Kalu

It would be very absurd to use the word ‘mess’ to characterize the government in Abia, but we can use the word...

Response to Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani: In Nigeria, You're Either Somebody or Nobody

A somebody-nobody mind-set is at the root of corruption and underdevelopment in Nigeria. But this mindset is not necessarily birthed out of a househelp--family relationship. It stems from a personal selfish desire. And it is not just in Nigeria that you will find selfish people...

Nigeria Governors Forum And The Plot To Remove Amaechi

In leadership, you do not expect the leader to be championing the cause of others other than those he or she was elected to head or spearhead. In my estimation, I think Amaechi has done well in this area...

When The Dame Died!

The First Lady lying comatose and breathless must have conjured the image of home without her imposing presence, her husband and her 'rivals'; her children and above all the millions and billions stashed away, garnered through connubial corruption!

APGA: Karma Has Finally Caught-up With Victor Umeh?

Umeh reminds me of how people in our country talk about religion so much, but hurl the word Karma around nonchalantly, as if it belongs to the Traditional Believers they regard as fetish...

Government Agencies Committing Financial Murder

Until recently, public outcries that government agencies have been mismanaging the revenues they generated have been received as fallacious. And because most past legislative investigations into these allegations have ended up compromised, those carrying on this act seem to believe to have mastered how to circumvent the law...

James Okpara And His 'Bende' Politics

Silence is not always the best response to a fool, so that he or she does not continue to wallow in abject foolishness, because fools don’t find the truth behind any situation before they open their mouths and talk...

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Grave Choices Before Youngsters

In America where an individual must be licensed to perform the most basic of chores, parenting is hardly paid any attention...

Saggy Trouser Vs Erotic Cleavage

Quality kids are becoming extinct. A virgin is seen as abnormal. It is now near impossible for our daughters to cling to their virginity until that blissful night of nights on a scented matrimonial bed...

Saraki: To Your Tents, O Israel

The biblical quote, "To your tents, O Israel", is...

Prosperity, Eternity 4: Channels of Distribution

If we have been saved with the assurance that we are now sons and daughters of God, then Heaven is a promised place, and we already have a ‘passport’ to be there...

El-Rufai is Governor of the month

El-Rufai wins CGPI Governor of the Month Award…Ambode is...

Kim Jong 1l dies: the Juche ideology lives

Koreans are a great nation and a great people who, had they not been separated since the 1950's, would have been as developed as Japan, if not more...

The Voices of One

Since the world woke up to the news of the anti-government revolts in these African countries, a likely scenario in Africa’s most populous country has been a major discourse across internet forums and social media platforms among many Nigerians...

Modernity and the “Extended Family System”

If there is one institution in Nigeria and Africa that has stood the test of time, it is our traditional extended family system. It has weathered and is still weathering well programmed western spells and storms...

The Mosquitoes of Otuoke and the UN Project

In 1960, as  a junior clerk in the Accounts...

Joe Biden: The Restoration of the American Soul & a (Dis)United People

"I believe that for all our imperfections, we are...