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...

Nigeria Freedom of Information Act: How about the Immunity Clause And The EFCC Act?

In 2008, the late President Umaru Yar'Adua asked the National Assembly to use the opportunity of the impending constitution review exercise to expunge the Immunity Clause from the Nigerian Constitution...

Boko Haram and the rest of us

With the recent avalanche of bombings by Boko Haram or someone acting in their name across Northern Nigeria and right on the doorsteps of Abuja, it is time for every right-thinking Nigerian to go beyond pious hand-wringing and start thinking...

Maurice Iwu and the Sale of Nigeria’s Collective Inheritance

Professor Iwu is not alone in this drive towards the sale of Nigeria’s biodiversity to the West for personal gains. Several Nigerian scientists, researchers, students and ordinary citizens, resident and in the Diaspora, have been known to collude with Western interests in selling off the plant resources of the country...

The Nigerian Front: An Unaffordable Deficit

We of The Nigerian Front are gravely concerned about the state of our nation stemming from the current prognosis of the recently signed budget.  The budget indicates that greed continues to dominate the polity as our resources are being mismanaged...

Time for a New Anti-Corruption Manual

Those watching for clues to emerge of the tone and mettle of Goodluck Jonathan’s presidency will have the opportunity, much sooner than they expect, to take a measure of the man. In fact, there will be two early opportunities...

Is Government in Nigeria a family business?

Running the government by consensus without fiscal responsibility and accountability and robbing Peter to pay Paul is what has gotten us into the predicament we are now in...

Amaechi Can’t Choose New Cabinet Alone

Amaechi should avoid recycling the “old people” in government because newness is one tenet of democracy. Amaechi should appoint “new people” into his government, because new people bring news ideas...

There is still one more inauguration to do

People need to know their rights and how to make sure they get use those rights. People also need to learn to rely on the fruit of their labour rather than favours...

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Education in Nigeria: The Return of Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai as Minister

The return of Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai as minister of education will signal a shift and a renewed commitment to education as President Goodluck Jonathan continues to demonstrate transformational leadership and his vision for education...

The Party is over for PDP

Many have wondered about the staying power of the PDP when it is structurally and institutionally prone to suicide. I am beginning to believe those who say that the wizard behind the party was President Olusegun Obasanjo and his Aso Rock cash...

Igboho: Vindicated by reality

​Sunday Adeyemo, aka Sunday Igboho, deserves a prominent place...

Ekiti knows the President’s Promise of Electoral Reform Sounds Hollow

If the number of elections held in 2003 that has been asked to be redone is anything to go by, Maurice Iwu and his INEC are failures...

Misguided Anger: The Myopic Reasoning of the Nigerian Elite

I am not a supporter or fan of OBJ and may never be. However, I believe that a presumptive analysis of his actions is premature and lacking good judgment by those that have continued to criticize him without all the details on why he chose his cause of action...

Politics, Power and Government

Power, like an aphrodisiac, is intoxicating and addictive. Once you have had a taste of it, it becomes difficult for the ordinary person to let go...

Libya, Ghadaffi and The Fate Of A Tyrant-Leader!

Political power without the support of the people cannot endure. The Libyan strongman, Muammar Gaddafi, has carried out indiscriminate slaughter of his own people, just because they feel the game is up for him...

Corruption Without The Immunity Clause

One of the most infuriating things about politics is the effort expended by politicians, pundits and partisans to hide very simple premises under layers and layers of self-serving bull crap...

The Aches and Pains of Explaining Nigeria

One of the burdens of being a longtime commentator...

When Will Nigeria Reform its Health Care?

One cannot help but wonder when the Nigerian government will begin to reform its healthcare. This is against the backdrop that Nigeria does not seem to have a clear, concrete and comprehensive health policy...