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...

Nigerian Youths, the reason for the Crimes

Everybody talks about the bad image that Nigeria has internationally. While I accept that this is true, what irks me is that nobody devotes time to addressing the reasons for the proliferation of crimes by Nigerians all over the world...

Ngige: A Giant Standing On Giant Shoulders @ 60

August 8 each year means a lot to Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige and his followership. This is the day the dude was born.  As a man who is seen by many as a classic in the political hemisphere of Nigeria, without doubt, Senator Ngige has fought many political battles...

Obasanjo and Babangida: Re-enforcing Peace with Joint statement

Nigeria is in a delicate trajectory point but has not reached what physicist calls an "Escape velocity" which literally means a point of no return. Not yet! Nigeria can be salvaged, even made whole again when patriots and lovers of stability vow to restore the country to her lost glory of 1970s and early 80s...

What Gov. Orji Doesn’t Know About A Chief Press Secretary

A colleague once told me that he is used to such noise. When he was writing a column for a national newspaper, a lot of people abused him each time he wrote and exposed a former governor in the South-East. One of the abusers even took a full page in another national newspaper to reply him...

Abati Vs Doyin: Who Commands Aso Rock Media High Command?

Recently, a mound of evidence emerged of dumb Dame Patience Jonathan's ugly descent into gratuitous attack on Reuben Abati over his arse-kissing type of image laundering. The unspeakably powerful wife of the president is not a woman who respects piety, formality of language and the incomparable intellectual chasm between her and Reuben Abati...

The fallacy of the Nigerian Cassava Bread

When the news first hit town a few months back that the Federal Government under the leadership of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, has a plan to  soon roll out an indigenous special  bread for the mass population of hungry Nigerians, the first thought that raced through my curious mind was that of bewilderment...

A question of honour for INEC and NBA

The honour of two apparently distinct and different bodies, INEC and the NBA, has been clearly challenged by two of their stakeholders and for everybody’s sake these two bodies cannot afford to pretend that the challenge was not thrown...

A Culture of Violence

The capacity of the Nigerian soldier for reckless display of brute and barbaric force has long been established. A typical soldier is a reflection of the arbitrariness of the military institution - swashbuckling, above-the-law and arrogant...

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Who will tame the state of insecurity in Imo State?

Obviously worried by the disturbing state of insecurity in Igboland in recent times, governors of the South East zone hurried, or as some accounts said, were “summoned”, to Aso Rock, penultimate week...

Death of Small Nigerian Businesses

Recently some traders in a certain part of Nigeria...

Buhari’s Lies: Change that Changes Nothing

President Mohammadu Buhari has turned out to be the...

When Truth Becomes Irrelevant

If the body of Christ lacks common sense and discernment to such an extent that we now tolerate and accept overt errors in the name of political correctness, how will we be able to handle the attack on doctrinal integrity? 

Still on Obama and Abortion

Women’s freedom of choice is what every being that is human should defend not only Obama or the democrats or liberals...

Nigerians will not get their Buhari

For the first time in my life I am...

For Brothers Only: I Have A Craving…

In all my brief travels to the cities of the world, particularly in Europe, and residence in North America, one prominent craving that swells through my inside and saturates my soul is a craving for the African woman...

Pastor Adeboye and the Rhetoric of Politics

I have always been fascinated by the evident but...

Reflections On Patriotism and Nigerian Unity (Part 2)

The word "Patriotism" projects a vision of billions of Chinese waving flags, or millions of Americans waving flags and singing their national anthems with nationalistic emotions. Well, don't we do the same in Nigeria, even as we profess not to be that patriotic?

IMF role in the recent fuel subsidy removal in Nigeria

No matter how the Nigerian economic team chooses to shade, equivocate or obfuscate it, the International Monetary Fund played a significant role, if not an upper hand, in the removal of fuel subsidy in poverty stricken Nigeria...