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...

ASUU Strike and its detrimental effect on our national economy

Despite the poor research and innovation capability of our present set of universities, incessant strike will continue to jeopardize the little research they are undertaking...

Corruption In Nigeria

In view of the penchant of most people in elective offices and sensitive positions in our public offices to amass wealth and the huge amounts of money usually involved in such official corruption and scam, caution should always be exercised in appointing heads of anti-graft agencies...

Ghost workers, pensioners as economic fleece

For decades now, Nigeria as a sovereign nation has been battling with the disturbing issue of phantom names on Government personnel payroll and in pensions audit results...

Muzzling the Advisory List

Corruption in Nigeria has become so widespread with its depleting effect on the economic development of the country that insistence on legalism in the war against it may at times be counterproductive...

Nigeria: Let our economic patriotism begin

After listening to Mr. President's budget speech, I couldn't control my happiness because it was as if the President had just read my mind. Here are some of the things I've been thinking...

The True State Of Rivers Roads

Good governance is good. It is only achieved when a leader makes up his mind with good intentions to lead. The people will be beneficiaries. They will always wish such a leader the best...

The Amaechi Scolding Of NDDC

What is happening in Rivers State in terms of development is wonderful. When you go around some of the work sites, what you see is the hand of Satan is at work...

Abia’s Waver On Rivers Indigenes

The Abia State Government recently said that its tribal work policy was not intended for Rivers State indigenes. This was after it banned the civil servants who are not from the state...

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Doctors: Nigerians In America’s Most Sought After Single Species?

Doctors are Nigerians In America's most eligible and sought after species. All the girls want to marry them and all the guys want to be them...

Amupitan and his Dance of Shame

From afar or a reasonable distance, the Independent National...

Death and Sex: The Forbidden Topics

Aside of death, sex is another matter Africans don't like talking about. But you see sex is everywhere. One way or the other, once or a thousand times in one's lifetime, we'll all engage in it...

Nigerian Democracy is Dead!

It is time to view Nigeria as it really is. Far from demonstrating any robust gains from our democracy, we have, on the contrary, reaped broken hope, stalled vision, economic disarray, empty rhetoric and comatose nation building projects...

How The Niger Delta People Can Get Their Freedom From a Terrorist Country Like Nigeria: A Simple but Effective Guide (2)

Foreign workers with their wallets full of dollars often lure the very beautiful Niger Delta girls into prostitution. Unfortunately, many, due to their disastrous economic conditions, have fallen for the bait...

Re-Igniting: Saturday Night Out Conversations

You may never know where you’re headed, but you can certainly cling to your dreams. Reality can be depressing and depression is not for happy people. The right size ego coupled with the right amount of self importance is all one needs to bring everything into perspective...

Conquerors of the poor

A base philosophy of life is an important driver. What we have now is that which says, ‘steal before others get to it, cheat before you get cheated and that money buys you everything including the death of those you do not agree with’. We need structural change in Nigeria, something a revolution may not even deliver...

Use GMO for Electricity and Gas, not Food

In my days in secondary school, one of my...

How the Petroleum Industry Reinforces Blackout in Nigeria

The following are incontrovertible facts about the Nigerian electricity sector: there is either no or epileptic electricity supply in about 90% of Nigerian homes and offices which, thus, depend on generators and spend fortunes fuelling same...

Please leave President Jonathan alone

First to set the record straight, I am not a member of President Ebele Azikiwe Goodluck Jonathan’s economic, social or political ideas or polices, neither do I agree to most of his administration’s plans for the country...