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...

Transforming Ibadan – A Case-study in Resistance To Change

It amuses me to hear people asking the Government of Oyo State to provide alternatives to people whose illegal structures are being demolished. Why should the government be responsible for providing alternatives, when the Government never allocated these land or shops to them in the first place?

Abia State and the Governance of a Little Mind

In any organised environment, it behooves the government to be concerned with the good affairs of its citizens, but Orji-led government sees this as the last principle of a sustainable development. The government has continued to build hope without anything to show for it...

Orji’s Unfounded Incessant Attack On Kalu

The more some of us want peace to be restored in Abia State among all the politicians in the state, the more some uncouth rabble-rousers are throwing stone; some are throwing sand, or even both...

Rivers: From Demolition To Deduction

In a town hall meeting with Rivers community in Abuja on the 5th November, 2012, Governor Chibuike Amaechi-led Government of Rivers State reportedly announced that it has ordered two helicopters...

Dr. Okonjo-Iweala is Nigeria's greatest link not weakest

It was an interesting and engaging article - Ngozi Iweala: Nigeria's weakest link -   written by one Sonala Olumhense. It was not that the piece was illuminating the encumbrances in the affairs of Nigeria’s contemporary democratic dispensation that made it compelling but for the acute misunderstanding on the role and achievements of Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...

The Many Sins of Governor Rochas Okorocha

Owelle Rochas Okorocha, the Governor of Imo State has sinned. You might chuckle that all have sinned and so what’s the big deal? But his own sins are unforgiveable. They are mortal sins and no redeeming grace can remedy him...

Ndigbo Must Be Wise In 2015

It is pertinent that people should embrace the selfless campaign of Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, the immediate  past governor of Abia State, for Igbo presidency in 2015...

A Good Name Is an Invaluable Possession

Our names represent who we are and we become known by our name to all who associate with us throughout our short lives in the world, with our reputation or the opinion generally held of us always inextricably linked to our name...

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Policing ourselves: imagine that!

I wonder why we need to be policed all the time, why voluntary compliance is so lacking. Self-discipline has been thrown out the window, and we need the brutal arms of uniformed men to coerce compliance out...

When Did Wike Become God? – The Impunity Of A Power-Drunk Minister

Nyesom Wike, Nigeria’s Minister of the Federal Capital Territory...

Rejoinder to: Maurice Iwu and the Sale of Nigeria's Collective Inheritance

As you are well aware many things have been written about me in both local and international press as part of an elaborate hate campaign, most of which are sponsored falsehood aimed at destroying my reputation...

Revisiting Nigeria’s political trajectory

The political formation, which eventually secured Nigeria’s independence, was...

Imo 2015: Martin Agbaso and his regrets

Much of the elder Agbaso's worry today is not about the circumstances that led to the reprehensible ouster of his brother as deputy governor, but the belief that the present crop of leadership in the state is not doing enough to assuage the fester in road infrastructure, education, health, water and recreation...

State Assemblies, Impeachment Plots and the Boomerang Effects

The heavy defeat suffered by the ruling party, PDP...

The Nigerian Jobseeker Pays for Every Job Application

Sadly, Nigerian employers have turned their recruitment exercises into income-generating ventures. In all, poor jobseekers pay for every job application, with no assurance that the most qualified or exceptional will secure the job!