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...

FAO Abiola Family

As we mark yet another June 12, there are some simple but important considerations that we, the people of Nigeria within and beyond the borders of the country need to continue to seriously make. Ordinarily, considerations and discussions about a Nigerian June 12 should be general and amongst citizens and scholars on civics and sovereignty of nations...

A Flying Coffin on Black Sunday

Frankly, I used to think I was a strong-hearted person until Monday, June 4, when I began sieving through tons of photographs of the Dana plane crash of Sunday, June 3, 2012 on the Internet. I didn’t know when tears began to stream from my eyes...

Kalu, EFCC And The Re-branding Project

The EFCC is bloated everyday with the hard earned name of Kalu brought to disrepute. The EFCC always uses wide coverage by the media to impress Nigerians while molesting Kalu. Today, many Nigerians are not impressed...

Crisis of a Wealthy Nation

The man-made ugly events in Nigeria in the last few weeks are strong signals that all is not well with the country. Concisely, the situations in the country needs urgent surgical care but unfortunately, the country's history is very repetitious and sooner or later, it will be business as usual...

Beyond distribution of free textbooks

The fresh decision of the Federal Government of Nigeria to distribute textbooks and other instructional materials to students in public schools and colleges across the country could not have come at a much better time than now, at least against the backdrop of the wobbly fortunes of the all-important education industry in Nigeria in recent times...

The Trouble with Nigeria

For too long, our country has been training people who only know how to keep the routine going; people who can answer questions but don’t know how to ask questions; people who are experts in maintaining what has been handed on to them without adding any value; people who can fulfill goals but don’t know how to set them...

An Air of Error: Prevention, Response Deterrence

Air crashes in Nigeria are like coming of age ceremonies, where the attendees air their closets, stride their wares, get immolated and conclude the lessons of the day by wrapping up and behaving like it never happened. After the Dana disaster that has claimed the lives of tens of our fellow citizens, if history were to repeat itself we can guarantee nothing will come of it...

BOMB, Formerly Known As University Of Maiduguri

Thankfully, things are a lot calmer; let us look again at the re-christening of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) a bit more dispassionately.  President Jonathan, in a recent broadcast, directed that UNILAG would henceforth be known as Moshood Abiola University...

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God Is Not Formless But Real!!!

The oneness and orderliness of the universe, amply demonstrated by the structural and functional unity of its component planets, stars and galaxies, render polytheism absolutely illogical and untenable. It is absolutely improbable that one god created the day while another created the night...

Nigeria vs. Argentina: A True Test Of Faith

Is a good football match on Sunday morning enough reason to skip church?

When The Dame Died!

The First Lady lying comatose and breathless must have conjured the image of home without her imposing presence, her husband and her 'rivals'; her children and above all the millions and billions stashed away, garnered through connubial corruption!

Ruth leaves her Root for the Root of Jesse 1: Steadfastness and Vision!

When both Ruth and Orpah left Moab with Naomi for Canaan, little did Ruth know that hers was an eternal step with God she was taking, whilst Orpah couldn’t see that she was returning to eternal damnation...

Yuletide: Unique Season, Unique Reason!

The Christmas season was upon us for weeks running...

Why Iwu Failed

Everyone now knows that Iwu and his INEC were simply unprepared or unwilling to take Nigerians beyond the usual sad, discomforting stories that had attended past elections in the country...

Obi, Rule Anambra!

The love of democracy and justice had given us the hope that Peter Obi would stamp his authority and wrest power from the evil clutches and return the state to the path of accelerated progress. But it seems that he does not have the requisite nerve and verve to rule Anambra...

Critical Review of Some Assertions by Dr Tamunoemi David-West (1)

There is no such entity as Kalabari Kingdom; and there has not been such that has ever existed since the death in 1770 of King Kalagbaaa, the master and owner of Amakiri...

Nigeria: The High Cost Of Neglect

Why is Nigeria incapable of purchasing the requisite equipment for attending to emergencies like the recent plane crash? Why would a whole nation put all its hope in a private company called Julius Berger? Why is this country perennially helpless in virtually everything? Is there any person at all somewhere planning and directing the usually bungled affairs of this failed state?

When Slaves Celebrate Their Chains: Delta’s Day of Shame In Asaba!

Today, history was made in Asaba — not one...