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...

Abia Needs, Bad Governance Media Tour

The Good Governance Media Tour under the leadership of Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, has come to Abia State and gone, but the dust raised is yet to settle...

Killers of Abia State and Kalu’s sparkling Politics

Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State, is not a controversial man, but due to his larger-than-life personality in Nigeria and around the world, people associate controversy with him...

On Yet Another Encounter With The SSS

True to my suspicion, the immigration officer took one look at my passport, asked me to hold on, and then whispered to an agent of the SSS. Soon, I was ushered to a seat just behind the immigration kiosks and asked to wait...

'Hammering' and 'Hummering' Nigeriana

Nigeria, from few indications, is improving indeed economically and socially. But politically she is trapped still in a vicious cycle of godfatherism and mediocrity, especially at the federal level with a sitting President whose incompetence and cluelessness ring a bell!

Same Shade; Imagined Differences

Sometime ago, a friend of mine was working as a security head of an institution whose security apparatus also secures the immediate community where the institution is domiciled. For whatever reasons, my friend decided that the bread suppliers who supply bread to the local shops had to be giving him some free loaves of bread...

On Ohaneze’s Festering Leadership Crisis

Once again, Ohaneze, the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization is enmeshed in crisis. It is ravaged by schism and the pangs of division are threatening its already fledgling commitment to give direction to the storm-tossed Igbo nation...

Abia: Posterity May Find It Very Hard To Forgive Gov. Orji

The latest ranting by Governor Theodore Orji’s aides in the media is dishonourable. They have thrown decorum into the dust bin just as their principal has thrown a gemstone such as the position of a governor away and chosen to be a gainsayer...

Quarter Past Time For Nigeria

In several levels, it’s bad news that Mr. Jonathan’s handlers have their sights set on 2015, deny it as they may. Give the devil his due: the PDP has no equal in the department of power grab. It’s a party that desires power for the sake of power...

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Detroit in Bankruptcy: What and who killed Capitalism?

If the Minister of Finance was quoted correctly, salaries may be hard to come by sooner than later and that will not be a pleasant story for our feral and marginalized under-class...

The Last Man Standing

Libya is in crises. Saif al-Islam Ghaddafi is about his business - the obedient son of a sit tight dictator – defending his nation's honor and right to sovereignty. Out of the blue reports and as yet unproven, allege that Saif Ghaddafi plagiarized some parts of his doctoral thesis without attribution...

World Forestry Congress XV for Korea organises social media reporters group

Activities leading to a successful World Forestry Congress, WFC,...

On The Budget Impasse In Anambra

For the umpteenth time, Anambra State is embroiled in a man-made crisis, staged to arrest the peace and progress of the state. Predictably, the provocateurs of the present crisis are the same as the ones that have spent a great chunk of their active time sowing dread, confusion and disorder in Anambra...

Plane Crashes, Corruption and the National Security of Nigeria

Once in a while, a plane will crash somewhere in the world. This was exactly what happened in Nigeria on Sunday, September 17, 2006, when a military plane crashed. As much as one endeavors to rationalize that the plane crash was an unfortunate incident, there is a tempting desire to probe more...

Periscoping the Nigerian Mentality

Nobody is willing to stand tall and question the source of the wealth of the overnight money-bags who are now being heralded. The demise of the traditional policing system is not helpful either...

Education: Southwest Nigeria has lost its edge!

The purported ranking of states by the West African...

Powerless: Nigeria’s Unending Struggle with Electricity

Available records show that the first public electricity generation...

Africans and the White House: Friends, Partners or Fools

When a typical African Head of State or Head of Government come to the US, a low-level officer from the State Department receives him or her. The White House doesn’t even consider African countries partners. We do not fall within America’s strategic interest...

The Importance of Functional Education

The importance of functional education to national life cannot...