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...

Revisiting Hilary Clinton's Trip to Nigeria

Why go through all the troubles to have Mrs. Clinton visit Nigeria for five hours just to make speeches affirming US support for Nigeria? Has she not done this before? What has changed since the last time she visited Nigeria?

A President and his good Intentions

Our long nightmare has just begun. But no one had any inkling that dreams will be truncated midstream. It all started in May 29, 2011; that sunny day in Eagles Square when President Goodluck Jonathan took the oath of office...

Fears and Certainties of 2015 today

For many people these are clearly uncertain times, it is the same everywhere you look in the world. In Nigeria, however, uncertainty is the norm. It is neither a temporary nor a new phenomenon. Generally, most people living in Nigeria and those dealing with Nigeria are never certain of what to expect...

Peter Odili, EFCC and the war on Corruption

In recent years, many celebrated cases handled by the EFCC have suffered a natural death. For example, the cases against bank chiefs are still pending in court because EFCC prosecutors failed to prove their cases beyond reasonable doubt or in most cases fail to bring on witnesses...

As We Await Jonathan’s 2013 Shocker

Our president, Goodluck Jonathan, is ill at ease with his perception amongst the people he rules. Some days ago, he laid the blame for his woeful performance on the press and followed it up by asserting that he has lost faith in the Nigerian press to give a fair assessment of his regime...

Inaugural Seminar On The Future Of Africa The New World Economic Order At The University Of Bradford, UK (2)

In Nigeria, innovative and constructive thinking is ignored because the Nigerian press has been inoculated with the total habit of reporting relevancies or irrelevancies as long as  these  emanate  from former leaders...

A People beyond Redemption?

Our society, like any other society consists of psychopaths and criminal. The only difference is that with Nigerians, the criminals and psychopaths seem to have been having the upper hand since the inception of this country. And inexplicably and ironically, it is the same people who are downtrodden, looted from, raped, abused and ignored by the rulers who invariably encourage, support and indeed, celebrate these criminals...

Jonathan has planted a good seed

Regardless of all the reservations or enthusiasm that a voter might have for his government, we are all bound as citizens to observe that the news that President Goodluck Jonathan has signed a performance contract with his ministers is good news...

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The Beautiful Game Is The Only Nigerian Vehicle

It’s only one vehicle bearing the legend “One Nigeria”...

Nigerian Journalist Heal Thyself!

As far as I am concerned, anybody can be corrupt whether you are a journalist or not. Everybody, even the Pope or Obama, has a price. Whether you are a lawyer, doctor, teacher, American, Pakistani or Brazilian, everyone has this innate tendency to be corrupt...

Racism Redefined: The Rest Of America Is Darkness, But For The History Of Africa

Today, we are here recording the Rebirth of pride; the Rebirth of a lost civilization; the Rebirth of superiority of Africans, even after many years of being deliberately shrouded in perceived absolute crime, ignorance, childlike innocence, and shameless rot...

High tension carnage (1)

Nigerians still live under wires of death 25 years after government pulled down thousands of homes under high tension lines...

Mitigating Plastic Pollution in Nigeria: A Call to Action

By Sandra Eguagie It appears that we have made an...

God May Be Man After All

It is not tendentious to contend that in some religious texts God is shown to have dark, human propensities such as anger, hate, prejudice, disgust, murderousness, envy, jealousy and pride. This list is not exhaustive of the negative human propensities of God as can be gleaned from some religious texts...

Femi Gbajabiamila’s Dance At The Market Square

It is difficult to argue that Nigeria is not...

Dìbò k’ó se’bẹ̀ and the raw reality of politics (2)

As Adlai Stevenson Jr. famously observed, “A hungry man...

What Boko Haram Really Wants

What does Boko Haram really want? Answers to this...

Ezenwanne Leads Nigeria To Triumph At Dubai 2023 Para-Powerlifting World Championships

The President of the Nigeria Para-Powerlifting Federation, Ichie Chiemeka Charles...