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...

In Gov Abiola Ajimobi, Did We Get What We Wanted?

With Ajimobi, the jury is still out. So far and so early, it appears to be a mixed bag. We have a governor who has embarked on a deliberate effort at ridding the state of Alao-Akala’s unqualified and incompetent political appointee...

Nigeria: The Cost and Curse of Biafra

When a people cultivate denial of an event, even a deeply traumatic one, they – at the very least – risk blundering into the same mistakes over and over. Nigeria continues to pay a price for its adamant refusal to take a proper inventory of its errors...

Corruption Is Good Business

Corruption is good business to the participants and those who profit from it. I am not talking about official government corruption, but also private and public sector, and even the petty corruption we encounter in our everyday life...

Pius Adesanmi: Squealers Revolt

'Hehehehe......heheheh.....who no know go know. So you no know say Abuja they monitor all you diaspora writers who write critical pieces about GEJ and his cabinet? PA is the talk of the town in Abuja now now. The man don get himself into a real professorial conundrum over his recent guest o. You no know say Professor Ibrahim Gambari go dance kokoma for im house in Canada...'

God or Nature: Who Did We Piss Off?

Offline and online, I've received volumes of messages from friends far and near inquiring about the flood that almost submerged my city and hometown, Ibadan...

Bamanga Tukur and PDP Chairmanship

Since in a participatory democracy the politician needs the political party more than the political party needs the politician, it would be difficult to imagine a vibrant democracy without competing political parties...

Nigeria at 51: Time to Re-organise a Dis-organised Society

Selfish and corrupt godfathers, inept politicians, military cabals and their cronies have taken control of leadership positions for many years...

Nigeria’s Biafran Burden

Biafra is back in the news in a big way, thanks, in large measure, to the recent death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple...

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Oba’s curse on kidnappers

What does security mean in relation to life as we know it today in Nigeria? For the most part, it means safety and freedom from worry. It is said to be the end that all men strive for, but is security a utopian goal or is it another word for rut?

Speaking Truth to Power: Generation of the Sixties Our Time Has Come!

In the past few decades in Nigeria, many of the best and brightest of a generation departed the land, including the writer of this article. We escaped and emigrated abroad on different aeroplanes...

Euphoria & Self Congratulation Over Third Term Must Wane!

When the euphoria, self-congratulatory celebrations and hoopla over the third term ends, Nigerians would have to settle down to chose a person that will be president...

Naija woman, Oyinbo man!

One of the major complaints some of my friends have about their Nigerian husbands is their unwillingness to lift a finger to help out around the house even if they both hold full time jobs.  Some of these issues are not exclusively unique to the Nigerian man. Men are men - FIRST - regardless of race!

The Nigerian Police and National Security

The rising incidences of kidnappings, assassinations, terrorism and other acts of violence across Nigeria has elicited critical questions from Nigerians bordering on the readiness of the country’s security forces to rise up to the mounting threats...

A Swamp Full of Hyenas

A Swamp Full of Dollars is a neatly compiled, carefully documented history coated in appealing prose. It is chock full of current statistics about Nigeria. This one is a keeper. And some of the data is frightening...

Oyo State is not a battle ground

Enough is enough. Our elders cannot be enemies forever as we do not want them to pass this to their sons. It is much better to make way for the coming generation as one...

Towards the Depoliticising of the Forensic Audit on NDDC

Niger Delta people will, for a long time, remain...

June and its Disappointing Tales

June, the 6th month of the year and the...

Agonies of a Global Villager

As global villagers, we can get information from and relate with people from all over the world in real time. Regardless of where we are, others get information about us too, the information they get is placed alongside with information from around the world and there lies the beginning of the agonies of the global villager...