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...

EFCC vs. Kalu: Looking Beyond Slander, but Truth…

The EFCC made Kalu a culprit whereas no court has said so, which is against the Nigerian judicial notion which says that a suspect remains innocent till convicted by any court of competent jurisdiction...

Charles Taylor, Boko Haram, And The Fire This Time

The same day that the murderer of Monrovia was convicted at The Hague, Nigerians awoke to yet another attack by the dreaded Boko Haram. This time, the group targeted a building in Kaduna that houses three of Nigeria’s major newspapers...

'ThisDay', Nduka Obaigbena And His Powerful Friends!

Just last week Thursday bombs went off in 'ThisDay' offices in Kaduna and Abuja claiming lives and registering other casualties. Boko Haram, the dreaded bomb-wielding terrorist organization terrorising the north claimed responsibility...

Amaechi’s Economic Environment

Rivers State today knows peace, even when people say that corruption is like a sport among the Nigerian political mobsters in public offices and that Nigeria will never know any peace until the right people are voted into office...

Boko Haram’s threat to The Presidency

Toeing the line of the Senate’s latest resolution that Nigeria has had enough of Boko Haram’s unsettling and destructive activities in the country since 2009, the Government urgently needs to shore up its security intelligence apparatus in an attempt to crush this comparatively new evil confronting the nation...

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...

Edwin Clark versus Nigeria

Part of the significant changes that came with the emergence of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in Nigerian national discourse are the metamorphosis of and the new role assumed by Chief Edwin Kiagbodo Clarke...

Fuel Subsidy Monsters Unmasked; Time For Action

Last week, President Goodluck Jonathan and his economic team finally ran out of excuses for inaction on the massive swindle of Nigeria by some crooked fuel marketers and their bureaucratic enablers...

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The Foreigners Are To Be Blamed

The accusation in the statement attributed to Gana often provides refuge for the illiterates amongst us; the type of people that perpetrated the catastrophic destructions in Kaduna are as guilty as Gana who unknowingly is inciting Nigerians against Foreigners...

Mr. President Negotiate with Boko Haram

Why did the Americans agree to this unusual swap of prisoners, even in the face of their very harsh criticism of the way we have handled the kidnapping of 230 girls in Chibok by the Boko Haram?

Is Obasanjo The Most Distinguished Egba Son?

General Obasanjo left office in 1979, not “voluntarily,” but at the nudging of the “Northern Power House.” They had just lost one of their own and they wanted back in power. So, they encouraged him to leave in order to “fulfill the promise” made by the late General Murtala Mohammed to hand over power to elected civilians in 1979...

The Coward who Sold a Nation

Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, Nigeria’s self-proclaimed “Evil Genius,” has finally...

A-Z of Delta State Sorry Story!

Ibori was an avowed disciple of Abacha. He was one of the Abacha boys in that dark age of our national life. That has been said already. But we make haste to say here: like Abacha, like Ibori!

I Beg Your Pardon

How does one begin to understand the psyche of beggars? Not your usual street beggars who due to no fault of theirs have to brave the elements in search of their daily bread. I’m talking about your uniformed or corporate beggars...

Trying Tinubu

As a founding member of NADECO, Tinubu was forced into exile in 1994, only to return to the country after Abacha kicked the bucket in mid 1998.  Like the rest of us, the man has his baggage.  In fact, he has his aplenty...

Nigeria: Preventing Tomorrow’s War

From religious fundamentalist groups rising up against the state and its institutions, ethnic militias adopting arcane methods of their own in questioning the legitimacy of the Nigeria State, an increasing number of kidnapping and assassination cartels, over ambitious politicians who prefer settling political scores extra-judicially, increase in youth restiveness, to other potentially destabilizing acts of violence, Nigeria has become a theatre of war...

A Path Choked With Weeds

The average Nigerian lusts for easy wealth and society no longer questions the source of such wealth, rather flaunting such ill gotten wealth is the eulogized in glossy magazines...

Ground-breaking and Commissioning– A Wasteful Phenomenon and Culture

“Ground-breaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first...