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...

‘Joy of the Senate’: Does Jonathan sanction Rigging?

Emordi is like a student expelled from a school for worst of crimes, and who we all would agree without question cannot, in the very next breath, be contracted by the principal to advise him on student matters...

How To Develop Abia State

Recently, Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State, while inducting 18 commissioners that will help him man the affairs of the state, charged them to submit their blueprint within 14 days...

President Jonathan and Juju Heritage of Cursing

President Goodluck Jonathan's invocation of curses on his appointed ministers may look like falling into our primordial and juju heritage, but the action has proved a sound point. "May your road be rough. May you have hard time this year. May you have plenty of troubles", are the curses hurled on his ministers to prepare them for the murderous task ahead...

Further and Better Assessment of Transformation in Nigeria 2

In the grammar of Nigerian politics, things are easier said than done. The declaration by this administration that it proposes to transform Nigeria tacitly implies that past Nigerian governments had failed to seriously confront political, economic and social development challenges in our country...

Ambassador John Campbell’s Doomsday Prophecy

Reading Mr Campbell’s essay, you can’t help but sympathise with Mr. Segun Aganga, Nigeria’s new Minister of Trade and Investment as his job has just been made much more challenging as he begins a mighty task of convincing foreign investors to come to Nigeria...

My Solution to the Boko Haram Menace

We started down this ignoble, cowardly course by negotiating with the criminals that hijacked the legitimate cause of the Niger-Delta people by blowing up oil infrastructure, blackmailing, kidnapping, raping, maiming, and killing...

The Heck About Amaechi’s Public House Experience

One knows that Amaechi was telling his rather ugly tales to prove a point that his early life was not rosy and cozy and that today his life has changed astronomically...

Our Continued Disunity

I wonder how long we are going to continue this disunity. Many lives are lost as a result of our inability to become united as one people, yet we still have an ethnic and tribalistic outlook...

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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...

The 1960 Collective: No to Mohammed Abubakar!

The 1960 Collective Welcomes the Removal of Hafiz Ringim, but Condemns the Appointment of Mohammed Abubakar as Acting Inspector General of Police in Nigeria...

Who will bell the NDDC Cat?

On 28th October 2019, the Nigeria Television Authority, NTA,...

The Youth and the Nigerian Society

In recent times, our once respectful, disciplined and hardworking youths have earned some uncomplimentary remarks in a society that has rubbed them of the better part of their lives, with little or nothing to show for it...

And ‘Obama’ Died

On Xmas day, I play host to Labi, Quadri, Samson, Ahmed and Farooq. Each sailed away from my kitchen to the dining table with a steaming plate of rice, chicken and a glass of chilled palm wine...

The Farmer Who Queried God

God of harvest, why have you forsaken me? And made my days of labor to be in vain?

June 17 Is Achebe Day Because Of ‘Things Fall Apart’

On Tuesday, June 17, 1958, Things Fall Apart was...

Power Must Shift to the North!

Let us make it categorically clear to the exponent of power shift to the North that the people of the Niger-Delta as well as other stakeholders in this country were not consulted when that so-called 'gentleman's arrangement' was brokered and agreed upon...

Still on the Security Situation in the Country

It is disheartening that our lamentation on the security...

Herdsmen, Actions and Consequences

Last week, alleged herdsmen armed with rapid-fire guns and...