Nigeria Matters

Throwing one’s hat into the political ring in Nigeria is akin to wandering into the coven of witches and wizards. Anything can happen. People disappear. Ghosts appear to cast votes. …

Not long ago, Osun State Government launched a feedback platform to further bridge the gap between policy implementation and the experiential realities of the residents of the state. The website, …

The rumour mill has been raucously agog with an amalgam of assertions and insinuations that Mr. Godwin Emefiele, the incumbent Governor of Nigeria’s apex financial institution, the Central Bank of …

It is crucial to state from the very beginning that Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo is a man of destiny. He did not hide it from anybody that he wanted to …

“I am a product of gifted INSULTS. “- BAT “Hate speech is a specie of TERRORISM” – PYO Our crowd-pleasing ace Afro-Juju music maestro, Chief Sunday Adeniyi, popularly known as …

Many Nigerians will gladly sell themselves to travel out of Nigeria for keeps. Back in time, there were plenteous noises against the capturing of Nigerians – and sundry Africans – …

It is 52 long years since the much-ballyhooed end of the Nigeria-Biafra war, yet nobody from the losing end of the war has served as the president of the country. …

Democracy and the African chief are mortal enemies. The chief in Africa sees himself as a permanent fixture who must never be disturbed by such matters as elections that democracy …

“As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us.” –Winston Churchill The Osun APC Governorship Primary, won …

Evidently, the strategic engagement tour, recently embarked upon by Governor Gboyega Oyetola, to all the Local Governments Areas (LGAs) in Osun State, was a veritable look-back mechanism, which afforded him …

The season of jostling to become Nigeria’s next president is on, and many strange characters are already calling themselves front-runners. All shapes of hats have been thrown into the political …

“When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.” — Calpurnia in Julius Caesar. What will you be remembered for when you …

Of a truth, Nigeria’s major predicament is that those who occupy the driver’s seat in her public administration have masked their interest to appear as if it is the public …

Part 1 HERE In part 1 of this series which received a lot of accolades as well as attention from different sections of the society and even beyond, it was …

          The Nigeria political landscape is undergoing the farming season since the last electoral victory of President Muhammadu Buhari over Atiku, now we are once again in the harvest season and …

“Fairness does not mean everyone gets the same. Fairness means everyone gets what they need”- Rick Riordan As a political commentator and concerned democrat, l am indeed constrained to make …