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...

Amaechi His Sycophants

Amaechi seems to love blind eyes, by way of his exhibited habits, loving the rhythms of the sycophantic praises, forgetting the fact that no leader has ever lived in the Government House forever...

Nigeria’s disunity: Buhari’s detribalization!

Struggling for Nigeria unity, it is necessary to combat firmly the fabricators and abettors of division. It is dishonest towards the integrity of Nigeria ethics for anyone to claim  injustice out of prejudice on differed dialect, culture and background...

Goodluck Jonathan and the burden of Utopia

The President has been universally commended for the sublime, rarefied success of giving Nigerians a free, fair and credible election. It is a heroic feat befitting a true hero of our democratic dispensation...

Jonathan’s Sweeping Victory MUST translate to Wholesale Performance

Jonathan must roll out in governance as he did in his electioneering. He and his team must work themselves inside-out in such a way that performance corresponds with the hope and expectations of the people, which hope and expectation is captured in the sweeping mandate they gave him...

Short changing the Ndigbo: Victims and Perpetrators

When it comes to pain and joy, no one is different. Like the rest of the country, the people of the southeastern part of Nigeria need politics to deliver good governance that will facilitate the creation of safe neighborhoods, good roads, decent schools, efficient health system and of course stable electric supply...

Ohakim’s Parting Address to Incoming Governors

One of the bright spots in Nigeria’s recent series of elections was the exclamatory decisiveness with which the voters in Imo State defeated Mis-governor Ikedi Ohakim...

An Open Letter from Awo, Balewa and Zik to President G. E. A. Jonathan

n behalf of all Nigerians in heaven, we are using this forum to congratulate you for winning the recently concluded general elections that will usher you in as an elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 29th of May...

Farewell to OGD

OGD made history of which one dreams through his natural ability to unify a disparage humanity of intelligent, proud, articulating, educated and sophisticated people of Ogun state...

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Terrorism: The Need To Delist Nigeria!

It's nonsense that the Obama regime is trying to turn the clock back to the Cold War era. America's move is seen as an intention to bully Nigeria's diplomatic mission into giving up its tougher stance on international peace mission...

The Impossible Death Of Zik Of Africa

The news broke like tropical thunderclap: Zik of Africa...

Still Bearing Daddy’s Surname Even After Marriage?

My colleague says no matter the political and historical and economic value that his sweetheart's name may bring to his life, he would not allow his wife to keep her daddy's name...

Developing Nigeria’s Economy: The New Challenges Of Industry Policy-Making

Through industrialization, developing nations aspire to achieve higher economic growth, and to eventually attain developed nation status. Yet, it remains doubtful whether the approach of industrial policy-making in developing countries has indeed been successful in transforming their economies...

The Turning Points of Life

If you desire an improvement in the future, you have to set in motion today the circumstances that could bring it about…

Offerings are for the Poor, not for your Pastor

For my people are destroyed from lack of knowledge....

The Nigerian Bingos and President Buhari

My friend, Dr. Lekky Okotete posted the below on...

Key transparency and accountability initiatives in Edo state

Nigeria has a national anti-corruption strategy which is currently...

CNN's Post-Elections Lamentations

In the next four years, America has to revise its international relations strategies to accommodate peaceful co-existence. The administration may wish to tone down "tough talk", which may please hawkish hegemonic people...

Song of Alamieyeseigha: If We Don’t Speak Up…

For our brother Governor Diepreye Solomon Peter Alamieyeseigha, go, go serve our sentence, we are all thieves! When you return our rusting guns will boom a thousand times for the homecoming of a good son of the soil. Go well, great thief. We shall miss you each time we take a lunch break from the hard work of looting our mothers’ treasures!