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...

The Problem with Olusegun Obasanjo

The man Olusegun Obasanjo is as complex and paradoxical as his record; here was a storied General whose famed native intelligence contrasted with his brash, dictatorial and vindictive tendencies. A man whose ability to manage large organizations, contrasted heavily with his messy private life of tens of concubines, and personal indiscipline within his home...

Nigerians: Victims of a Hijacked Democracy

No doubt Mr. President did not surround himself with some of Nigeria's best men and women. But, then, given the kind of arrangement we have in place that places not in his hands the selection of his team, should he just be blamed for having these men and women around him?

Abia: A Time Of Universal Pretense

Telling the truth is not always easy in a land that is characterised by untrustworthiness; therefore truth becomes an art of rebellion or opposition in the eyes of men and women whose only trade in stock is betrayal...

Governor Ajimobi’s Radical Reformation of Oyo NURTW

Every reasonable observer of politics in Oyo State knew that the former Chairman of the state’s chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Alhaji Lateef Akinsola, a.k.a. Tokyo, was not going to go away quietly...

We need a Nation, not Leaders or Programs

You cannot flip the pages of the hundreds of Nigeria’s newspapers, and millions of websites dedicated to analyzing the problems of Nigeria without coming away with a sense of knowing what is required. But somehow, the nation manages to elect the most unqualified and unpatriotic individuals to high offices, ensuring these common sense solutions never see the light of the day...

Corrupt, Indolent and Profligate Oyo State House of Assembly

It would have been hilarious were it not true that members of the Oyo State House of Assembly took their spouses on a junket through the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (U.S.) on tax payers’ backs...

Abia and Gov. Orji’s Incessant Affront

Some persons have the ability to learn from experience while others do not have. The latter does not make human existence unique. It is not remarkable...

CIA and Nigeria's Underdevelopment

Nations always compete fiercer than businesses compete. Doing everything to scuffle and derail potential challengers, has been the rule of the game. For nations ahead in the game, they take the battle to potential attacker's territory...

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Instigationism And Conflict Entrepreneurship

Every violent conflict has its beneficiaries. These beneficiaries are the people who hide behind iron masks to stoke the fire of violence; the secret players behind the scene; the evil hands hidden in velvet gloves waiting to pounce on any opportunity presented by war to make profit...

The Power of Ideas

The power of ideas is enormous but the power of prophecy is awesome. Those who have rigged elections or caused elections to be rigged on their behalf, the guilt shall come upon you...

How misuse of 13% Derivation Affects Isoko

I was in Gombe in November 2022 when the...

Nigeria’s transition to knowledge-based economy

Nigeria should constantly be on the necessary voyage of discovery and search for new knowledge to resolve our devastating growth and development challenges and subsequently create wealth...

Nigerian ‘Japa’ Trend And The Issue Of Brain Drain

If you are to ask the average Nigerian today...

Self-Flagellation and The Abdulmutallab Affair

The United States, Indian and Israeli top security agencies have now been fingered as conspirators in the Christmas day attempt by Umar Faruok AbdulMutallab to detonate chemical explosives aboard Delta Airlines flight 253...

The Merits of the Presidential Debates

A gymnastic political party ought to be able to field only a candidate whose breadth of knowledge covers the whole political issues of crucial interest to the state and its people...

The Paradox Of Corruption And Patriotism

To say that the country called Nigeria is a conundrum is a gross understatement. To both its people and foreigners, it is a country that is, in its extremity, baffling, frustrating, annoying and uncivilised...

Terrorism for Terrorism's Sake

It is a fact, painful as it is, that most of today’s calamities are borne out of yesterday’s inanities. What is worse is the fact that we are all in some way or the other continuously plotting tomorrow’s catastrophes...