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...

End Kid Prostitution

Please, let people not find pleasure in turning teenage children into prostitutes. Be it straight prostitution, lesbianism or homosexuality...

Roosevelt's cabinet vs Jonathan's cabinet

Our dear President, remember how millions of our powerless fellow citizens - our widows, orphans, mentally and physically challenged, and aged pensioners - all today have no one else to look up to wipe their tears than you. Our dear President, never be misled by your eagle-eyed praise-singers...

Blame! Blame! Blame! Blame Someone Else! – A Nigerian Political Pastime

Politicians, especially the Nigerian species, are an intriguing and confounding breed. I like to hope and think of them as a breed that will soon become extinct, like the dinosaurs...

Satan has relocated to Jos

I write this article with a heavy heart because, like anyone who grew up in Plateau State in those seemingly ancient days when it was a model of peace and multi-ethnic concord, I am at a loss for words...

Andy Uba, Boko Haram, and Electoral Reform

Last week, Senate President David Mark achieved a new grade in cynicism when he announced Andy Uba as chairman of the Senate Committee on the Independent National Electoral Commission. Andy Uba overseeing INEC? It would be hilarious if it weren’t so ghastly!

Jonathan: how to look bad naked

So, Jonathan’s first 100 days in office has come and gone.  Lamentably, you’ll have to agree, the man cuts the picture of a passionless and reluctant President.  He has also managed to remind us all that a snake cannot give birth to a tadpole...

This State is shaky

There is a worrisome disconnect between the state of affairs in the country and the attitude of those in charge of such affairs that needs to be pondered upon...

A Wikileaked Nation

Most Nigerians have always known that their country is a mess. Now, thanks to a series of astonishing revelations by Wikileaks, we have a clearer sense of how troubled, and troubling, is the misadventure called Nigeria...

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The world of literature has been corrupted by those journalists who revel in scandals, grinning from ear to ear and reveling in obscenities. They deliver marital offenders to the executioners, in circumstances of utmost humiliation and sadism...

Africa: Five Hundred Years to Progress

One need not dig deep into the mind of White Americans and their European counterparts to know what they think of Africans. You know it, and I know it, too...people incapable of a common task and unable to solve complicated tasks...

Immune In Legislative Impunity

It beggars belief that our elected representatives at the...

Now I get it! Most Americans don’t get it

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The Judiciary as Temple of Corruption

Nigeria, sadly, has not been particularly fortunate in its drive to evolve a functional democratic governance since 1999, which could deliver the oft-mentioned but elusive dividends to the people, principally because of the unspeakable greed of its political class, and the attendant impunity accentuated by a seemingly compromised and disabled judiciary...

Broadening Opportunities of Government Funding of the Informal Sector

We begin by appreciating the Federal Government for the...

God's Rights, Women's Rights, Human and Democratic Rights

Traditionally speaking and otherwise, God can never change. However, some Devil-incarnates like this woman are changing Godly rules for their undefined Human Rights and Democratic Rights...

Remembering Anthony Enahoro

It is a settled fact that Anthony Eromosele Enahoro...

Gov. T.A. Orji Makes History On How Not To Spend Abia Money

The City Reporters freshly surprised us with another dishonorable feat that Gov. Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State has achieved...

What Manner of Senate

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