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...

Darkness In Ndigbo’s Political Sight

Ndigbo and their areas play a very innermost role geographically in Nigeria’s affairs, no matter the political shift of this fact to any region of the country to own the ownership of commerce and industry...

Volunteers In Nigeria Where Art Thou?

Despite the upsurge of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism and fanaticism in Nigeria, there is dearth of volunteerism in Nigeria. Volunteerism is profoundly absent and yet, Nigerians are said to be the most religious?

Does Jonathan Deserve a Second term?

The clandestine and often veiled reference to the politics of a second term beyond 2015, involving the interest and the re-election of the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, which have often been dismissed as a distraction by the President and his aides is characteristically breaking out in the open.  Will the President contest a second term in 2015?

Flooding In Nigeria is a National Security Emergency; It Is Time Deploy the Army, Navy, Air Force

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday October 9, 2012 announced plans by the federal government of Nigeria to respond to the current ravages of floods throughout Nigeria...

Jungle Justice, the Most Salient Sign of a Dysfunctional System: A Comparative Analysis of the Bakassi Boys and Aluu Community

Jungle justice has been defined as when a population, precisely an irate mob, takes it into their hands to execute punishment on alleged offenders of a heinous crime. The alleged culprit is hardly ever given the right to a fair hearing and the opportunity to defend himself before the sentence of death by burning and torture is handed down...

Viemudu Igho (1919-2012): Typically Nigerian, Distinctively British!

Why are we here, and where must we need go after now? The story of Pa Viemudu Igho tells it a little. And a great account as this should start from cradle...

You Can Weep Beloved Country: The Murder of the Aluu Four

Even as those four young men were being bludgeoned to death and burnt, elsewhere in Port Harcourt, the rains had started. Gently at first; then it started pouring. Then as twitter was on fire on Sunday the 7th of October, 2012 with campaigns for justice for the murdered boys, the skies over Port Harcourt caved in again...

Nigeria At 52: Indeed, This House Has Fallen

Fifty two years after what is largely described as our flag independence, Nigeria lies wrecked and hobbled. A country that breathed much hope and inspiration fifty two years ago is today a sad and regrettable instance of what a nation should not be...

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Oodua Republic: To Be Or Not To Be?

Fellow brothers and sisters, it's very important for us to understand that Nigeria is a 'trap' that was set up by the British in order to make us independent and hold back our economic and cultural development...

Long Standing Illogicalities In Nigerian Politics

Since 1960, in the Federal Republic of Nigeria, it...

The Master Dribblers Of Nigerian Politics

Obasanjo and Babangida are two of a kind with minor differences in the way and manner they operate. They are both master dribblers, but their football is Nigeria and her people...

Welcome to Germany?

Some Nigerians who travelled to Europe in the hope of greener pastures are stuck there because the castles they built in the air have come crashing down on them...

Oyo Abductions And Our Illimitable Woes

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

Ekiti 2026: Continuity, Reality and Comfort Zone

June 20, 2026, is the date appointed by the...

The Problem with Fixing Nigeria: How to if we really try

There is this natural tendency to despair in the rot called Nigeria even when one lives in this paradise of misgovernance in fits and bursts. However, despair is exactly what the rulers of Nigeria want us to feel...

The Murder of Oluwatoyin Olusesan

I read with utmost disgust, the detailed news reports of the gruesome and needless murder of one Ms. Oluwatoyin Olusesan...

Israeli Politics: The Return of Benjamin Netanyahu?

Benjamin Netanyahu could become the next Prime Minister of Israel for the second time...

Weeping Sentiments on Sale of Edo Library & Agric Ministry

I was dismayed when l read about the outright...