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...

Who cleanses Nigeria’s ‘House of Dregs’?

It is highly disappointing, and irresponsible of some NASS members with a clear mandate to make good laws for the socio-economic and political well-being of Nigerians while carrying out other legitimate oversight functions...

Diesel Power: How Otedola Brought Down the House of Lawan

Diesel Otedola is the kind of Homo erectus we love to adulate, glorify and celebrate in our classrooms, business discussions, the Internet, homes and even in the midst of enlightened, robust discourse. This tall, young, dark, handsome man is among Nigeria’s wealthiest 100. From childhood, the Nigerian society has bred into his bones its own belief in social and political mobility. He has been taught that wealth attracts positive attention, universal respect, unmerited privileges, consideration, affection, friendship and congratulation from the president...

My Neighbour is the Thief

This article is not one of those usual gripes currently associated with discussions about the problems of Nigeria. The truth of the matter is that the current narrative discourse on the trouble with Nigeria, as Chinua Achebe made the characteristic title of his 1983 monograph, has become sickening, disgusting, nauseating, downright annoying and full of rubbish talk...

Governor Peter Obi and El Rufai: In Defense of Anambra Integrity

Nasir El Rufai, in his most recent article on Peter Obi and Anambra State, did not provide us with credible references or scholarly sources that validate the statistics he utilized. However, it was not difficult to find out his source which is the National Bureau of Statistics...

Economic Integration and the South-West

Blind patriotism aside, Nigeria can rightfully be described as a country that is richly blessed in poverty, miserable in abundance, and saturated in wants. As a people, we have had our share of intellectually barren, politically ignorant and pugnacious leaders who emerged from, or forced themselves on us as a direct consequence of prolonged military misrule and dictatorship in the country...

Lawless Money Mongers

Nigerians are divided by the hocus-pocus Farouk Lawan and Femi Otedola-led bribery episode the two-of-a-kind are playing without any show of shame...

Demystifying the Gun In 'Naija'!

The 'Ajegunle soldier' in Lagos, Daddy Showkey, one of the most popular musicians in Nigeria, some weeks ago, survived yet another attempt on his life. According to the Edo-born weird talent he was in a filling station in Lagos trying to buy fuel when suddenly two men riding a motorbike accosted him and shot him at close range!

EFCC and the Federal Government Reforms

What the Federal Government is perhaps oblivious of is that the image of Nigeria and Nigerians is incessantly battered outside the shores of this country by the EFCC...

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Before The Nightfall

We as a people have had it long and tough. A decision must be made now:  Decision to take our country back from the hands of its slaughterers; fight a good fight; use our vote as our weapon and make good use of it; vote out the useless and vote in the useful...

In Sickness in Health: A President, a Nation a Constitution

It is no secret that the president of our federal republic currently endures a difficult personal trial of his own in the form of a severe body ailment. The treatment of which, has often necessitated his hospitalisation abroad...

Agunsoye: Tribute to the deity at 69

Last weekend, the Elegboro of Ijebu-Jesa, His Royal Majesty,...

The Flip Side of the Cicero Murder

Who is Bola Ige, Why was he killed, Who could have killed him and What does this portend for security and Democracy in Nigeria?

Plateau: The Fire Next Time

Now that a new National Security Adviser has been appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan, one hopes that things might improve for the better. Mallam Sambo Dasuki, a gentleman from appearance, should go ahead and engage the terrorists as he opts for "dialogue" but one belongs to the side of the hawks, that is, those in full support of a military solution...

Diego Maradona: A Wild Child of Argentina

DIEGO MARADONA: October 30, 1960 --November 25, 2020 The ambiguities...

 Of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and Ibrahim Babangida

There are some interesting coincidences between Spain and Nigeria...

Order and stability: a case for Nigeria’s youth

Change is inevitable! The trouble however is that, most...

“We are Now in Charge!”

A lot of things can happen if all workers in Africa’s community of conscience begin to labor in a way that would make President Obama understand the need to focus, for once in five hundred years, on Africans and not Africa...

State of the Nation and a Credible 2011 Elections: Matters Arising

In a recent interview which Goodluck Jonathan granted the Cable News Network, he confirmed the much speculated news that he might be heading for the running mate’s ticket of the presidential ticket bearer of the PDP...