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...

My Name Is Mallam Boko Haram!

My name is Mallam Boko Haram and I am proud to so introduce myself. I am the public enemy number one of the confused federal government of Nigeria. But I am still holding out, outsmarting the security armada unleashed on me...

Why I Won’t Write About Ibori

I’m staunchly determined not to write about the sentencing, today, of former Governor James Onanefe Ibori in a UK court. There are sound reasons not to dwell on the subject of Ibori’s troubles...

Kalu, Orji and non-performance

Instead of working hard to liberate the state from the mess it is in, speculations surround Orji that he is banking money to mobilize the people of the state for the mirage called 2015 elections...

Ibori’s many Forgeries, Guilty Plea and my Recent Silence!

That Ibori’s infamy hit rock bottom when he finally pleaded guilty to sundry thievery charges because all his forgeries at the end of the day could not pull the wool over the eyes of enlightened courts outside our clime is no longer news...

An overview of the Nigerian political mafias

I have just finished reading an interesting book called The Mafia: The First 100 Years written by two authors William Balzamo and George Carpozzi jnr. This courtesy of an intellectual friend who was kind enough to lend me this priceless novel. To be honest the ways of the mafia, ‘the men of honour’ has always intrigued me...

The increasing oil theft in Nigeria

The petroleum sector is said to be accounting for about 90% of the nation’s overall revenue in a typical fiscal year. However, crude oil theft, which is certainly not a new phenomenon in the nation’s system over time, is fast assuming a detrimental dimension and posing a real threat to the socio-economic well-being of Nigerians...

A Parable of the President’s Church

Most big Nigerian politicians encounter no law – divine or secular – they feel tempted to observe. In fact, to be a prominent politician is to be above all laws, God’s and man’s alike...

Dr Abati's Aso Rock 'Transformation'!

For a popular hitherto pro-people writer who reportedly 'solicited' for the Aso Rock employment thus deposing his predecessor Ima Niboro Dr Abati gave himself away unwittingly as an ambitious man in search of a better life...

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Nigerianizing Nigeria’s Embassies

Career badmouthers of Nigeria’s Federal Government have gone gaga over the news that a modest sum of N1.5 billion has been earmarked in the 2009 budget “to fuel generators” in Nigeria’s Embassies and Consulates abroad...

The Analogue President In Digital Wonderland

The 2023 presidential election is a make-or-mar moment through...

Bailout: Is Buhari Rewarding Profligacy?

The recent N400 billion bailout approved for the states...

Nigeria was Saved by Grace Alone

Those who live in the supernatural state, have given...

Governor Of Bayelsa Can Appoint Ambassadors?

The immunity clause in our constitution was clearly not intended to shield or protect a president, vice president, governor or deputy governor, if they engage in gross misconducts and criminalities, such as rape, armed robbery or murder!

Has Biafra Been Compromised?

I feel more Nigerian than Biafran. The shortcomings of our shared nationhood notwithstanding I posit that if we all put tribal sentiments aside and become less crime-friendly, we can build a great nation...

The Role of Civil Society and Governmental Agencies in the Fight against Corruption, Poverty and Terrorism in Africa

The governance process in Africa is reflective of the current democratic wave and to this extent; it is abundantly evident that increasingly the continent is shifting away from the pervasive trend of “bad” governance towards “good” governance...

‘Restitutio In Integrum’ In Iraq

The Iraqi war and the attendant destruction that took place will long be remembered as a war which two young Euro-American leaders prosecuted absolutely without a just cause and with little caution...

Tinubu Signs Electoral Bill Into Law — Balanced Reforms, But Public Trust Remains Elusive

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has signed into law the...

Bode George, God, and a Priest

Bode George, ex-military man and ex-chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, left Kirikiri prison last Saturday – having served a two-year sentence for corruption and earned the addition of ex-convict to his CV. From prison, Mr. George headed straight for the Cathedral Church of Christ in Marina, Lagos...