Nigeria Matters

The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

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...

Kalu's Gambian House And Ufomba’s Made-up Comment

The blog reads that Kalu's aristocratic house in Gambia is now on sale. The report went further to induce Nigerians that the house was put on sale at a ludicrous price. The hypothetical house, the report went further to say, was built four years ago...

The Explosion In Port Harcourt

Nigerians are now benefiting from propagating ethnic bias and everybody seems to be dancing in this euphoria of blood thirst by some uncouth and unscrupulous constituents...

River's Brand Image And The Competitive Struggle

It is the idea of joining unionism with politics that has swelled the nation’s security, unity and democratic lapses...

Yet another Re-branding Charade

Nigerians are once again being led on another value re-orientation campaign farce. This recent campaign urging “Nigerians to do the right thing” is coming on the heels of Dora Akunyuli’s futile attempt to re-brand a country whose warped value system is compounded by inept leaders whose stock in trade is to perpetuate corruption and injustice...

Aregbesola should mind his business

Aregbesola made the call for the establishment of a northern ministry whilst delivering a speech at a symposium on ‘Islam and Peaceful Co-existence in Contemporary Multi-Religious State’ in Abuja. In the governor’s intention, such ministry will have the task of dealing with the problems of unemployment, poverty and women affairs in the north...

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER: The Asiwaju at 60?

The fact is that it was the reversals by the courts of some gubernatorial electoral ‘victories’ of the PDP in the South West that has provided the opportunity for this respected journalist to shift his focus to the person of the ‘Asiwaju’, ’Bola Tinubu of Lagos.  I accept that he does not go as far as some to canonise him but has used a cleverer tactic of conflating and confusing the ends and means of progressive politics...

Before subsidy scam report stirs controversy

There is, arguably, no other way the current Administration in Nigeria could prove to many anxious Nigerians and members of the international world, that it really means business in tackling the endemic corruption seriously retarding the progress of the country than implementing the recommendations in the Fuel Subsidy Report...

Nigeria's invented problems and Azazi's political 'incorrectness'

Using Jubril Aminu's postulation, Boko Haram is an invented problem. It was never there but some people invented it and have allowed it to grow. While Rwanda, Angola, Mozambique have put their historical problems behind them, Nigeria is stuck with its cycle of violence waiting for 2015...

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The Virgins Of Flaming Change

I must say, after reading The Virgin of Flames that I heartily recommend it to all lovers of good literature. This book is a delightful riot of sizzling prose, robust poetry and keep-me-up-at-night issues...

The Bad Example of Zenith Bank

When the news broke some weeks ago that Zenith...

Delta’s N1trillion and Sweeping Poverty, Horrible Criminality

Since 1999 when monstrosity enthroned itself in government in Delta, the State has had about a trillion naira which in the main (some say 90 percent actually) has been mismanaged, wasted and carted away to sundry places home and abroad...

The Failure of the Colonial Legal System in Nigeria: A Rhapsodic Passacaglia on a Legal Theme

Recent unbecoming developments in the Nigerian judiciary have proved me right in my long contempt for the British Colonial legal system that was foisted on Nigeria by British colonial authorities...

Afrofest In The Park

Nadine’s enthusiasm for Africa would shame most Nigerians. We are so much into being other people that we lose all sense of identity. We would rather embrace the artificial and empty cultures imposed on us by the mass media than seek answers in our own culture, music, and arts…

Zoning of Public Office and Its National Relevance

Zoning as a concept has its pros and cons especially in a multi-composite society like Nigeria. We co-habit in a society but divided in a variety of ways...

Nigeria: A Ridiculed Mother?

Those who have been mauling, pummeling and pulverizing Nigeria, are now claiming patriotism as their excuse?

Successful People Lead The Way

A Taste Of Success by Azuh Arinze; Yes International...

Beyond Flyovers: Why Human Development Should Define Nigeria’s Progress

In the glare of ribbon-cuttings and road inaugurations, a...

Creation, True Science versus Evolution (5): The Bible and Civilisation

Science that has the Bible as compass and anchor is the science that has served the world. At the end of the day true science would have purposefully or inadvertently fallen in line with The Book to drive society positively forward...