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...

Abeg, somebody should tell Jonathan…

Until a fatal combination of cirrhosis of the liver and excess Viagra did the lunatic Abacha in, between November 1993 and June 1998 everyone knew their place in Nigeria.  All our noisemaking warmongers kept well quiet...

Security Needfulness: Nigerians Live In Place Of Their Livelihood!

The dawn of transmuted politics in Nigeria has encouraged strange dimensions of conflict:  violence and ethnic tension stage-managed by the Boko Haram sect...

How Nigeria will develop!

We live in an age of science and technology. Nigeria can be powerful and advanced, only if it will become scientifically advanced and technically well-developed...

Abatimania: All Hail Abuja Spin Doctor!

Let it be said that Abuja overpowering witchcraft has a bewitching power to trim and tone up the firestorm and libertarian courage of Reuben Abati and render him totally useless, voiceless and faceless like our dear Ebenezer Babatope. Whoever underrates Abuja digs his own...

Getting Nigeria on Track!

Keeping in mind that the increasingly well-informed public will only vote for parties that truly defend their interests, we hope that political parties, be they old or brand new, only strive for the interests of the people through democratic means...

Minimum Wage Brouhaha, Salary Payment Punch-ups

If governance is all about tackling and surmounting daunting challenges on entirely sacrificial note with huge results, you will need the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and David Ben-Gurion. Those beautiful ones are not yet born in Nigeria...

Princewill’s Decision So Far So Good

Princewill’s decision and love for the state riled the leadership of AC at the national level by his insistence that his decision was hinged on the need to bring change to the state...

Rivers’ Poverty Enhancement Programme

The government should always reach an understanding and operational guidelines with the people in all its endeavours instead of operating largely without recourse to set rules...

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Nigeria: Inflation as tool to erode the foreign debt

The greatest threat and the major contributory factor in the undermining of a given economy and its currency is inflation...

Regulate unemployment and poverty, not Social media

Sometime in 2014, and prior to the 2015 General...

Listening to Boko Haram

What do you have against education, after all Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna himself, started Ahmadu Bello University cleverly named after him? He did not miss a beat and responded immediately: “That fellow was misguided..."

The United Nations and Contemporary World Society: Kuomi Duka!

I will certainly drink a glassful of ale if and when Nigeria becomes a member of the United Nations Security Council in no distant future...

Humphrey Nwosu And His Jaded Market

It is debatable whether the troika of Babangida, Buhari and Abdulsalami Abubakar would insult us with the recent suggestion of Abacha saintlihood were Obasanjo not the woeful failure he was in the last eight years...

A Governor’s Credentials as Serial Wrecker

The month of May ended without any credit alerts...

When The People Say Enough Is Enough

In recent weeks, the world was reminded of a...

Impact of Cultural Changes in Nigeria Politics

The new breed of rogue politicians exploited the goodness and kindness of Nigerians, and ran the country like ‘moolue bus’. They consolidated their grip on the power and resources of the country, and introduced a scare tactics to force a compromise on our integrity...

Unforgettable

The Life and Music of I. K. Dairo, Rex Jim Lawson and their protege, Wale Glorious and Orlando Owoh...

Five Big Problems I Have With Nigerian “Pastors”

(1). A woman called her cousin in a neighboring...