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...

Betrayers

Persons have oftentimes been betrayed by those that they held in high esteem. Relationships between friends, wives and husbands, parents and children have always been battered on the altar of betrayal...

Nigeria will NOT emerge stronger – a rejoinder to an address by Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola

I feel constrained to join issues with you on the fallacies contained in your address to the 38th Annual Conference of the United States National Conference of Black Mayors in June 2012 in the United States...

Too easy to blame just Jonathan

With his recent declaration intent to change the name of University of Lagos in honor of the winner of June 12 1993 presidential elections, Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has again confirmed what many of us of think of him and his administration: he is leading an error-prone presidency...

Bayelsa: Between Sylva And Gold!

During the Ibori saga in London I had decided to refrain deliberately from commenting on the fortunate outcome of the Ibori kleptocracy because while happy with the development as it concerned his indictment I was angry with the obnoxious system back home that produced Ibori...

The Flight of reason and descent of anarchy in Lagos State

I am convinced that when Fashola and his cohort embarked on the ill-advised decision to summarily sack the almost entire medical workforce in Lagos State, little did they give any consideration to the possible snowball effects of such an irrational decision...

President Jonathan and His Dishonouring Honour

Few hours before this year’s Democracy Day speech was aired, I had a discussion with an erudite scholar on the successes of this administration after a year in office with special reference given to the deserving, or otherwise, of another year – talk less of a second term. The discussion became a debate, but we both agreed on the fact that this president's approval rating is at an all time low...

In Pursuit of Better Governance

When a collectivity of people decide to come together and live together under the umbrella of one government, such decision is a contract. It is aimed at promoting their inalienable pleasure seeking right among others. The people trade their trust with the expectation that such government will promote the people’s integrity and welfare, defend it against internal and external aggression or invasion, and be characteristically altruistic...

BUHARI: The Ego Has Landed

Nigeria is never in short supply of enablers.  They are scattered all over the nation, but most of them reside in the southern part of the country.  A disproportionate number of them are from the South-East.  One or two are from Edo State.  A gaggle can be found in the South-West...

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JAMB and Continuous Extortion

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is the...

Addressing the gender stereotype in Nigeria’s political sphere

Since 1999, when Nigeria returned to democratic governance following...

The Cable Thief

One day, late January, I came home and noticed my front door was unlocked. Another day, mid-February, I came home from work and noticed my back door was unlocked. A week later, I woke up in the middle of the night.  I thought I heard someone in the house...

The Power of Images and the Symbol on the Nigeria Vision 2020 Web Site

I visited the web site for Nigeria Vision 2020 today and was shocked at the image that stared back at me - the eye of a Caucasian person!

Dialogue with a Random Republican ‘Christian’

“For my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge.”...

The Olusegun Obasanjo We Know!

We know the Ota farmer as a vindictive man who hatched good and bad schemes with equal nasty determination. Recently, he paid an unscheduled visit to the Comrade Governor of Edo State and told reporters in Benin City that he was just passing by...

Reflections on Naira-for-Crude

The Naira-for-Crude initiative has ignited a profound debate in...

“You Are An Idiot” In A Democracy?

While I am in total agreement that the president’s language is an embarrassment to the nation for which he ought to apologise, one is much more concerned about what his words and attitudes portends for democracy in Nigeria...

Karen Igho: Africa's Most Beloved

Big Brother Africa season six has come and gone. It was the first time in the history of the show that two housemates were crowned winners - Karen and Wendall. But the fact that there were two winners was not the best part of the show...

Basic Principles that Guarantee the Success of Your Online Business

These basic principles of online business are the bedrock on which a successful online business is built...