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, knowledge economy and Vision 20:2020

With the unsettling, rife social tensions resulting from biting poverty, youth unemployment, hunger, inflation, power failure, insecurity of lives and property and social dislocations across the land, the Federal Government urgently needs to dialogue with the ASUU leadership...

A Vote For Removing (Political) Subsidies

Greed and callousness seem to be at the heart of the crusade to hike the price of fuel products. The argument has been made, at the state and national levels, that fuel subsidies guzzle resources that should be invested to provide absent, much needed infrastructure. This argument would have a measure of traction in a political space run by serious-minded, visionary leaders..

Fixing Murtala Mohammed “Air-Nightmare”

Nothing best exemplifies the state of Nigeria’s leadership than the dilapidating state of the gateway to the nation, the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja. An airport that sits strategically as not only a possible gateway to Nigeria, but West Africa as well as the rest of the World...

The Criminalization of Same Sex Marriage

Nigerian senate has just passed a bill outlawing same-sex marriage as well as banning public displays of affection between homosexual couples. Approval of the bill, which still must be voted on by the House of Representatives and signed by the President, stipulates a 14-year jail term...

Princewill's Path To Media Greatness

Prince Tonye Princewill's congratulatory letter to The Management of the Rivers State Newspapers Corporation on its 40th anniversary of the publication of The Tide Newspapers, made a good read...

Amaechi, The End Matters Most

Rivers State is falling into serious environmental chaos, even though the residents are calm and peace loving...

What Happened to the Uwais Panel Reports?

Nigeria is a nation run on the erratic brainwave of those that have succeeded in cornering state power. Here, the attention span of both the leaders and the led is mercifully short. No importance is attached to details...

Ojukwu: A Titan Who Won’t Die

In life, Ojukwu was at once a spellbinding presence and approachable; he was both charismatic and truly larger than life. One measure of Ojukwu’s stature as a historical figure is that, among those who knew him – or merely knew of him – it’s extremely difficult to meet many who can honestly say they were indifferent to him...

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London Marathon

I ran for ages and got very angry at the first sign. One mile. Only? With all this sweat and thirst? 25 miles to go. God help us…

Expectant mothers in Nigeria prefer religious homes to hospitals

The indisputable fact that Nigeria is a religious country...

Israel And Nigeria: The Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko (Conclusion)

Over the past few weeks I have been revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984.  This is the concluding part of the series…

A Man’s Response to “What Does It Mean To Be a Nigerian Woman in America?”

There is the tendency amongst some Africans to think that African culture is backward and primitive and all that...

Jonathan Disgraced Nigerians by Meeting Hollande in Paris over Chibok Girls and Boko Haram

What is really going on in Nigeria for God's sake?! Is this the useless giant of Africa that we all make noise or brag about? A giant of Africa that has zero influence and whose president is not even capable of doing very simple things like inviting his colleagues from neighbouring countries to Abuja, the capital of his country...

Lessons for Pat Utomi from Oshiomole

It will be with great regret that I will be giving you tomorrow's news today; Newsflash: Pat Utomi loses in Moonslide in the April Nigeria Presidential Election...

Pavlovian Affairs: The Quest for Mans’ Mind and Life Imitating Art

Very often the media has worked ‘hand in glove’ with politicians, governments, big businesses and religious organisations to shape the thinking of their intended audiences. These special interest groups, without exception, are driven by a desire to dominate the collective mindset of mankind in their quest for untrammelled power...

Can You Tame A Wild And Crazy Class?

This is my story concerning how I managed the wildest and craziest class in my school. I must let you in on it that my methods were a little crazy too...

ACF Hijacked, Unnecessarily Rattled!

What is Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) up to? Why allow itself to be hijacked, and lately so? Is this to give Atiku Abubarkar some relevance after his atrocious and loutish outing and brutal defeat? Or, is it something beyond that?

Foundations of Misrule in Nigeria

Every tyrant is a megalomaniac. Tyranny is nothing but a political manifestation of psychosis. That is a fact that remains indisputable. I have never known a tyrant, stripped of the paraphernalia of power clothing his madness, who has not acquitted himself as a grovelling coward...