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...

THE NIGERIAN FRONT: Mr. President and the Courage of his Convictions

The recent silence from the front has been based on one consideration, the appropriateness of providing space for the President to consider the road map we have previously published...

Changing perceptions as Nigeria’s milestone

The messages emanating from Nigeria appear mixed. On one hand, we are witnessing some positive news and on another hand, we are confronted with some serious and dangerous trends in our match towards nationhood...

Cross River model and governance in Nigeria

Given what governors have done in their respective states across the country, it has become apparent that what matters is not really how wealthy a state or by extension a nation is but how well the little resources available are managed...

What’s a Nigerian Worth?

In a sense, the debate over the minimum wage for Nigerian workers raises a more fundamental question: What’s a Nigerian worth? And since there are different kinds of Nigerians, one ought to clarify that the question, at the deepest level, has to do with the least privileged of Nigerians...

Still Nigeria Rises

Boko Haram, MEND, bombings, kidnappings, political schemings and all, can only but last a moment. Battered though Nigeria might be by all your efforts...

Comparing nigeria with developing or developed countries

That I frequently hear Nigerians, educated and exposed, make illogical excuses for Nigeria is unexplainable. This weird idea of rebuffing anybody who dares to ask why Nigeria, in spite of her natural and human endowments, is not sitting up the ladder of developed countries is first of all sycophancy of the first degree...

Amaechi’s Sanitation Decision The Frustration Of Residents

Majority of the Rivers masses are today laughing at people like Ige, who saw the Ikoku spare parts market as the only place where poor sanitary condition was in Port Harcourt, and shut it...

Let us reform or disband this NTA

NTA is an open wound that hurts millions of Nigerians within and beyond the shores of Nigeria and it needs urgent healing; there is no other way of saying it, this NTA as it stands today needs to be either thoroughly reformed or completely disbanded...

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Obasanjo, Terrorism and Nigerian Democracy

A fortnight ago in Washington D.C., just a few blocks away from the Nigerian Embassy here, a Biafran house was opened, the Biafran flag was hoisted and the Biafran national anthem was jubilantly sang by hundreds of Nigerians...

Nigeria and a better living condition: Deserved or Disservice?

Economy shapes cities. It’s dwelling pattern, transit arrangement, but for Nigeria; spending spree of our politicians and quenching the reviving spirits of our economy has deterred the trend...

Why the Government May Be Wrong on The New ‘Minimum’ Wage

No one will dispute that our workers deserve decent wages that will guarantee social self-reproduction without recourse to moonlighting, bribery and corruption or primitive accumulation...

She Gives Birth On The Road

My people! the woman is a miracle. Her hands are 'clean'. But I'm not sure what could have happened if there were no women who still wear wrapper to give the woman cover, as she lay beside the road, because many women these days loathe to wear wrapper...

Europe Enters A New Era As Ukraine Ends Russian Gas Transit To The EU

In a landmark move that signals a profound shift...

Blacks Whites: What’s the Real Deal?

Whites are racists!  Whites are naturally prejudiced!  Those white folks who act as if they like blacks are just full of it! Are you washed-out by such statements?  Do you frankly believe that White people simply don't like black people? What do Whites have against American Blacks?

Nigeria: Between The Pulpit And The Podium!

The 21st century Nigeria with many challenges may not find succour in a clueless and somber President who is only trying to prove himself and make sense of his command...

Unveiling Year 2008 Sandwich Before Yar'Adua

Just like Obasanjo resisted the parochial agenda of Afenifere, for which he was villified by his own people, Yar’Adua should and must resist and be seen to resist the parochial agenda of the Arewa tribal bigots...

Swearing in public servants by Juju

Our country still suffers a lot of poverty in the midst of plenty and it seems to me that only something as radical as the total annihilation of corrupt people can save us...

On Being ‘Foreign’- (Huh To My Accent, Love My Kinky Hair)

Just do me one little favor...don’t make any assumptions about me, and I will accord you the same respect.