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...

Transformation Whammy: Who Will Unravel This Occult?

The romanticisation of Jonathan’s shoeless past and the ongoing spin on his underclass and underdog antecedents have continued to engender a kind of sympathetic solidarity in the consciousness of many Nigerians. But beyond the overkill, we have the unconvinced advocates of pessimism who see Jonathan as a fraud...

Mr. President, On Managing Sexual Violence in Nigeria

In reality, the Federal Ministry of Justice should have its Office of Public Prosecution fully developed with a functioning Sex Crimes Unit working closely with establishments like the Nigeria Police, Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development, Youth Development and other related agencies...

Caught in a Web of Circumstance

There are no people I disrespect like people, who, as a result of greed, whitemail or consent, allow other people or institutions in the service of the Luciferian hierarchy to desecrate their divinity...

Nigeria: From zombie military to zombie democracy

The political and economic ruins the military left behind when handing over to civilians still have their ripple effects on the country even more than a decade after the soldiers left the scene. The poor state of our democratic culture is demonstrating that...

Mixed Signals of Cracks in the Citadel

During the ill-conceived deregulation fiasco in Nigeria, a new English word came into regular use. The word “palliatives” gained currency as a password to future prosperity...

Mr. President, In a Democratic Nigeria, the Parading of Suspects is wrong

At the time of this writing Nigeria is yet to be legally known as a Police state, as such the parading of suspects in criminal or civil matters in front of the public or the media is not only a sign of instant indictment, direct forfeiture of one’s human rights but a clear message that the paraded individual does not have any constitutional rights at all...

Rising employees’ pension frauds

Probity and accountability in civil and public service ought to be the hallmark of a truly transforming nation as Nigeria. All stakeholders in pension management and administration should realise that the issue of pension is never a trivial one to be handled haphazardly...

A Man Worth Less Than A Chicken

In the illogical, absurd creed that reigns in Nigeria, a man’s life is worth wasting over N30! That, in a nutshell, is a picture of how much an average Nigerian’s life is worth in the eyes of agents of the Nigerian state...

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Prof Bart Nnaji: A Fellow Sportsman in Enugu Governorship Race

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The God Delusion And The Irrational Basis Of Religion: Reflections of a former Skeptic

Our modern lifestyle of perpetual cycle of activities and noise has been a major deterrent to encountering God in the quietness of our soul...

St. Valentine: Between Valerie and Valentine

St. Valentine's Day occasion has not only meant the celebration of carnal love but death and blood has been drawn and associated with the 'Valentinic' love day…

Boosting Brand Nigeria With The Golden Eaglets Win

Brand Nigeria received the biggest boost it could ever receive in its quest to put some shine on its already globally battered image  when the Under-17 football team, the Golden Eaglets, beat Spain in the finals of the FIFA Under-17 World Championship in South Korea...

Africa and the Pestilence of Imported Gods (2)

How can a society hand over its head on a platter to a conqueror because he asked for it? How can a people yield their gods to be decapitated or burnt at the conqueror’s fires simply because the conqueror just showed up, knocked on the door and politely asked for that?

Sanwo-Olu and the pursuit of a social market economy (2)

Section 25 of the Nigerian Constitution is explicit on...

We Must Be Really Scared Now!

Please don’t get me wrong, I am not going to let Nigeria kill me. I am just sad and scared because idiots are getting away with murder, literarily. I am scared because I might die outside Nigeria, with my family scattered all over the world...

Unstoppable Ngozi Wahala

It’s not for nothing that she is fondly referred...

Is It Ladoja Or Akala? Quo Vadis?

Nigeria is riding on the back of a tiger right now and the country might, in the fullness of time, end up in the stomach of that tiger if care is not taken. I think we are in trouble now...

Grand Ofala of Igwe (Sir) Raphael N. Offor of Omogho

Igwe (Sir) Raphael N. Offor, KSM, JP, AMB. P...