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 Jonathan We Know – A response to the antics of Reuben Abati

These are indeed precarious times for Reuben Abati. And like any sinking man, desperate to hold on to a fast dwindling job, Dr Abati has resorted to desperate measures. The flurry of articles from him in recent times speaks volumes about his desperation...

When Advise Becomes Abuse

Some folks do not want their friends to correct them. And when the friends do, they use abuse in place of correcting the friends. We must be open to accepting correction, because any wrong that silence is used as the best option makes abuse the order of the day...

Orji And Abia's Revenue Robbers

Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has a pass in speechifying. He is talented in holding his audience for hours in praise of himself and miserable minutes used in talking about where Abia State is heading...

Alhaji

Nigerians!  We are very good at our usual copy, copy.  We can’t wait to follow, follow.  We love honour and adulation but we are never prepared to put in the commensurate hard work.  Shortcuts and arbitrariness is our thing.  When and how did Mrs Fashola become a Dame?

Please leave President Jonathan alone

First to set the record straight, I am not a member of President Ebele Azikiwe Goodluck Jonathan’s economic, social or political ideas or polices, neither do I agree to most of his administration’s plans for the country...

David Iyofor: A Diplomatic Chief Press Secretary

David Iyofor was once the Senior Special Adviser to Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State on Media matters, and later the Head of Media and Publicity for Amaechi’s re-election campaign, since the inception of his administration...

Orji, A Governor In the Diaspora

Abia people have severally carried coffins in Abia State to show their anger over a government that has not met with their heart's desire. Some of them have expressed their anger over non-payment of their salary...

Abia And The Agents Of Distraction

There is a theory that Governor T.A Orji of Abia State and his aides have introduced and want the general public to buy. It is a dangerous and malicious theory of hatred and brigandage...

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Sanitizing the Electoral Process in Nigeria (1)

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Curbing this systemic disintegration

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The Era of Disclosures: Nothing is hidden under the Sun

The changing nature of Nigerian politics now opens the door into disclosures of matters that were hidden in the closet of time...