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...

Nigeria: A Giant to Emulate

Nigeria, through its government, is trying very hard to deal ruthlessly with the social menace of corruption, particularly since 1999...

The misadventure of a Good Luck called Jonathan

If OBJ had a conscience, now would be the time for him to bury his face in shame. This is due to his role and schemes in navigating President Jonathan to the corridor of power...

Nigeria: The Road to Failure

Like many of the failed or failing states, elections in Nigeria do not provide a just and veritable platform for its teeming masses to change an abysmally bad system of governance...

Lawless vs. the Federal Republic of Nigeria

Since 1960, our Federal Republic has been injured very often by criminal conducts. Lawlessness has been rife, lawlessness has been on the rise and the serpents of illusion have crawled around the nation...

Town Crier in the city of the deaf – Power must change hands!

Just when I was thinking of expressing comradeship with the courageous men and women in Lagos State who were planning to continue the street protests that greeted the removal of petroleum subsidy in Nigeria, I was abruptly brought to a great sadness by the scale of human and material destruction that characterized Boko Haram attacks on the ancient city of Kano...

It is very annoying…

Our budgeting system in both the federal and state levels have become a joke. It is skewed heavily towards recurrent expenditures to sustain the exuberant and extravagant lifestyle of our leaders; their madness...

National Strike: Our Inconsistencies

After one week of mass protest, the “irreversible and irreducible” federal government has balked; the voice of the people which was misunderstood but not taken for granted has impacted the right notes with Mr. President...

“Occupy Nigeria”! Monday Morning, What If?

What if Southern Christians insisted on protecting their Southern “Moderate” Muslims and Protested together?

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The Eagle Nest Book Club of Ama Ijele Theatre

On July 3, the award-winning poet, Amu Nnadi, was...

Owa Obokun: Heritage, Reality, Aspiration (1)

The illustrious 42-year reign of Oba (Dr.) Gabriel Adekunle...

Further and Better Assessment of Transformation in Nigeria 2

In the grammar of Nigerian politics, things are easier said than done. The declaration by this administration that it proposes to transform Nigeria tacitly implies that past Nigerian governments had failed to seriously confront political, economic and social development challenges in our country...

ABUJA: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria? (2)

Abuja as a capital is an ideal place for the North in all sense of the word. They figured out that if another civil war starts, a military Head of state from the North would have more than enough time at his disposal to quickly relocate to a military base in Kaduna or any other city in the North...

OBJ Deserves To be called “Father of Modern Nigeria”

Who else deserves the honor of being the architect, creator and master mind of this country of ours. A country where anything goes: a country where "modern" policemen depend on harassing the collective psyche of ordinary citizens...

Food waste threatens the Environment

Almost everybody is crying of hunger in this country in recent times. Hardly is anyone thinking about the quantity of food that is being wasted everyday. This practice is becoming a threat to the environment...

Instancing How Nigerians Have Been Agonizing, Traumatizing and Duping One Another

Oh boy! Na village you still dey.... No hope for you oh because if you think sey e go better like that, you no go ever make ‘em for life. I just say make I ring you oh, because as I don dey for paradise now, he no good make sense make I no say hallo to you my padi...

Ebenezer Obey: I Had My Share Of Drinking And Womanizing

"Nigeria’s future is bright...The country will be better. Good days are ahead. I will just want the government to take care of the Niger Delta people. It pleases God to put the oil in their region. So let them enjoy the wealth from that oil..." - Ebenezer Obey

What’s Your Age Got To Do With Your Participation In Politics?

A lot of the governorship aspirants fall within the forty or forty something range. I hope you realize what this means in terms of the kind of parentage and the kind of opportunities that these politicians were exposed to as children...

More Pastors May Die At Igbo Funerals

Whatever the sons of late Pa Oji Okoko are saying, the in-thing is that they disappointed their father in death no matter who they said was it that persuaded them against his wish that Christian burial should not be conducted for him...