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...

Rivers without Water

It should not take the Amaechi-led government till 2025 to realize some fundamental needs of the people, like drinkable water. People are tired of carrying big rubbers of water on their heads from distances. Amaechi should avoid situations where his promises and statements no longer excite the people...

How to transform a state: a re-invention of political philosophy

The new state of political conditioning must work out diplomatic strategies to deal with non-conformists, political mal-contents, and listen to their arguments and offer superior convictions...

Before Goodluck loses goodwill

Fantastic as the idea of tenure elongation may sound, at least based on the President’s handy explanation on why he is revisiting the idea for now, the Government should gauge the prevailing mood of the followership, that the timing may be wrong...

Gov. Amaechi and Odumegwu Onwumere: The Need To Square-Up!

From whom did Nigerians of today inherit ethnic hatred? Certainly not from their forefathers. Therefore, the lack of finesse, ethnic and intra-ethnic tolerance could rightly be said to be precipitated by the modern political parameters...

Transformational leadership: The Lagos example

People do echo the common slogan at every turn in the metropolis: Fashola is working; Lagos is working. It’s, indeed, gratifying to note that most achievements being recorded by the Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN, Administration in Lagos State, are attracting the attention of well-meaning Nigerians and foreigners...

Al Mustafa's Testimonies: The Secrets of the Dead Men's Cove?

The prolonged and tortuous trial of the former Chief Security Officer, Al Mustapha, has reached a crescendo. His disclosures are at once chilly and explosive...

Anambra and the Politics of Propaganda

Last week, Governor Peter Obi of Anambra received unflattering epithets when he intruded on a rally where state workers were discussing his unpopular proposal on the implementation of the new minimum wage...

The other sides of the state of the Naira

The last time I checked the value of the of the Naira, it was very saddening to discover that it was being sold at 274 to buy 1 GBP and 165 to buy 1 USD. We all knew things could be bad, but this bad?

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Five Things Boko Haram Has Taught Us

Boko Haram is here to stay. Those who keep asking why the army is not able to "finish off" Boko Haram overnight do not understand that terrorism is a decades long problem. This is real life, not a Rambo or Chuck Norris film...

Grow Rich While You Sleep!

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Resource Allocation: The More You Work And Produce, The Less You Get (419 Constitution 2)

Why is resource allocation not based on criteria like the number or percentage of graduates compared to the population, productivity, percentage of small and medium scale enterprises, percentage of self-employed people...

The Impediments to Buhari’s Agenda: Time for Critical Assessment

In the next few months, President Buhari will be...

June 12: And the Daniel finally comes to Judgment

And from nowhere, June 12 that has assumed the...

On The Osun Forensic Controversy

What is happening with the forensic question in Osun State currently shows that this country needs to make haste to sanitize both the electoral process and the judiciary or else we are walking straight into the ways of Kenya...

The Sign

Why should relationship calamity stop us from loving? We cannot say because we have made wrong choices historically we won’t love. If we continue to do things that some people did that resulted in their demise, why should we not love simply because we or other people have done it in the past and it did not turn out well...

Uwaila Omozuwa: Rape And Murder So Gruesome!

“One life taken in cold blood is as gruesome...

Third Term Still Possible for Obasanjo

For over a year now, Obasanjo knew he was going to seek a third term in office. He knew it; yet he did not prepare the country for such an eventuality until it was too late and in the process gave his enemies and critics the time and the chance to organize against him...

The Tempest: Colonial Encounters and Gendered Readings

Since most contemporary receptions of The Tempest from Lamming to Skura are politicised one should attempt to locate them within the Colonial/Post-Colonial dialectics in order to properly apprehend traditional criticism.