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...

NYSC: National Youth Service Corps or National Youth Slaughtering Corps?

It goes without saying, however, that due to matters arising, the time has come for us to go back to the drawing board with an eraser and wipe out certain programmes, schemes, etc., which have outlived their usefulness or at least have been rendered moot by certain happenings in certain quarters...

Amaechi, “Economytortion” and “Sextortion”

There is a revolution going on in the last two Centuries in Nigeria. This is not about the Industrial Revolution or any of its kind, but a Revolution instigated by certain women in our society against the men...

Buhari: When 2015 Comes!

Nigeria in the 21st century needs a strong leader, a benevolent dictator if you don't mind, who will knock sense into the senseless federal arrangement that is killing its inhabitants. We desperately need a morally-upright President who is incorruptible and intrepid to knock corruptible elements out of the system...

Who Will Speak For Kalu?

Nigerians have seen the slapdash manner the accused persons in the pensioners fund scam, the fuel subsidy henchman bribery scandal and the aviation fund diversion, amongst others, are being handled...

Our dishonorable legislators: Was Obasanjo right?

To be honest, I was never a fan of Chief Obasanjo in and out of office, but I might again change my posture if what is currently brewing at the lower house is found to be true at the end of the day...

Tackling Unemployment In Rivers

Governor Chibuike Amaechi might mean well in his Rivers State-led government. This could be the reason why the government is often praised for some laudable achievement. But before one could go to Eleme Junction and return, those projects the government is praised for have dilapidated...

Onwuliri, Ike Abugu: In The Afterglow of Earthly Life

It is just natural that news of such fatal crash as the ill fated Dana airline crash in Lagos some days ago elicits a momentary wave of shock and curiosity among Nigerians. Thereafter, and almost immediately, the shock tapers off leaving close relatives, friends and associates of the victims to bear the sad memories...

An Apologetic Presidency

The perceived cluelessness of the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s administration is about as old news as Ex-President Obasanjo’s assertion that the nation’s politicians are crooks. It was patently obvious that from the very first day GEJ stood close enough to power, he lacked the very gusto and presence of mind to lead a nation this complex, complicated and tasking...

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Speaking Truth to Power: Nigeria and the Casual Truth

A few weeks have now elapsed since Yar'Adua's arrival in Nigeria in the dead of the night and yet no credible sightings of him are available to anyone.  Nigeria and the world are left in the dark, fed with rumours for crumbs...

Corrupt People Cannot/Do not Make Good Leaders!

This statement by the late great Madiba, Nelson Mandela,...

An Open Letter to Acting President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan

Mr. President, you may have one year in office, but you can have such a hell of a year that you leave indelible marks on the pages of history...

One too many death…

Many Nigerians, due to the killing of some corp members who were deployed as adhoc staff of INEC in the 2011 general elections, have been clamoring for the scrapping of the NYSC scheme...

Just a Pant

Most blood transfused in our various clinics are gotten from paid donors and families of patients in need of blood. What does this say of us as citizens of this nation? We love money, and we are collectively selfish!

Insecurity in the Country – Motivational Factors, Effects and Remedies

If history is anything to go by, the human...

Long Standing Illogicalities In Nigerian Politics

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

Oni, BAO and the mathematics of alignment

The recent realignment in the UK - where figures...

How AMCON saved our banks from global financial fiasco (I)

Having borrowed heavily to meet shortfalls in government tax revenue and bloated social spending, it came to the point the US economy could no longer continue to attract foreign money to finance government deficits without raising interest rates...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 5)

My advice to the Niger Delta militants is that they should state clearly that they don't believe any more in one Nigeria, and want to opt out. They should make it clear to the North...