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...

Open Letter To Tonye Princewill

Beloved Prince Tonye Princewill, it might not be your greatest of needs, but it is a social and spiritual observable fact that appreciation is one of the emotional needs of mankind...

Sheila Solarin and the rest of us

Just last week we got news of the death of Mrs Sheila Solarin, wife of the late author, educationist and social activist, Dr Tai Solarin. Mrs Sheila Solarin was very much but not just the wife of her husband. In her own right, she deserves a special mention and recognition for her contribution and achievement as person...

Nigeria: Mark of the Bills

It's been 98 solid years since Nigeria, as we know it today, embarked on a 100-year marathon to...one wonders, NOwhere while never preparing for the NOWhere...

Rivers Flooding: A Mixture of Ignorance and Politics

It was Carl Sagan who said that we have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces...

Abia State’s Naive Probe

Nigeria is becoming a den of news. The Abia State Government led by Governor Theodore Orji is one of the most hit in recent times. His government is a beehive of off-beam news and he does not stomach criticism or make use of observers’ critiques...

President Goodluck Jonathan Imagined In Rain-boots and Rolled Up Sleeves!

How many flood ravaged states and communities has President Goodluck Jonathan visited since the beginning of these nationwide inundation and saturation by water?

Boko Haram's Endless 9/11: The Curse Of Malsi

Why is the world racing apace into brutality of religious Armageddon? Who will heal the resurgence of religious intolerance that is daily reconfiguring the children of the bondwoman into extremist hardliners?

Nigeria @ 52: The Agony of President Jonathan’s Heresy

Regrettably, Nigerian presidents - especially the last eight - have not been honest in their state of the nation addresses.   Their speeches are clustered around political correctness rather than providing honest and accurate information to the people...

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Princewill’s Abandoned Upland Riverine Political Mentality

Princewill is beyond the politics of ethnicities, and he has shown that. With this new twist in the political landscape in Rivers State, the Rivers State masses should not find themselves at crossroads...

An Aberrant Democracy

What exactly is democracy? Democracy (Greek: δημοκρατία dēmokratía, literally "rule...

Let’s Rig the Olympics

The Paris2024 Olympic Games cannot be forgotten in a...

Oyo Abductions And Our Illimitable Woes

We are all now in peril, and there’s no...

Nnamdi Kanu: The Path The Nigerian Government Should Thread

The buzz activated by the arrest and subsequent extradition...

Nigeria: Legitimizing Terrorism and Banditry?

Many things in life defy comprehension, rationality, or basic...

One Term: Rethinking Peter Obi’s Latest Submission

I have decided to coin the title of this...

Political Madmen and Specialists

Even at the tamest of times, Nigeria can be...

Who Advises the Nigerian President?

Very often, the impunity and impertinence with which very serious state matters are addressed in Nigeria, suggest that the political parties are not oblivious of how much they affront the voters' sensitivities...

Season of Letters: Governor Okorocha as a Case Study

As the 2015 general election draws near, we have...