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's 2011 Elections: Free but NOT fair!

The 2011 elections have come and gone. Winners and losers have been declared-and members of the Judiciary are pungently salivating. The president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has already offered a verdict...

Zoning of Public Office and Its National Relevance

Zoning as a concept has its pros and cons especially in a multi-composite society like Nigeria. We co-habit in a society but divided in a variety of ways...

Ndi'Igbo, Looking For Good luck

It is palpable today that the South-East zone of Nigeria is looking for its good luck in the political equation of President Goodluck Jonathan...

The Nigerian Front: A Government of All Talents

Since the call from ‘The Nigerian Front’ to the organs of government and to Nigerian electorate, the Presidency has moved to reduce the excessive monetary allowances, which the members of the National Assembly voted for themselves...

The Igbo in the GEJ Dispensation

There are times when an angry but wise man realizes that he is responsible, either by omission or commission, for the pains being inflicted on him by his adversary...

What President-Elect Goodluck Jonathan Needs

The Aboki guy that sells suya in my neighborhood had a better legal understanding than the lawmakers with the world’s highest wages...

Princewill’s Choice in Jonathan: Retrospection on Zoning before 2011 Elections

Apart from being a crowned prince of the Amachree dynasty in the Kalabari Kingdom of Rivers State and also the 'new face of Rivers politics', as many people describe him as, Prince Tonye Princewill describes himself as a 'bridge builder'...

David-West: From Virology To Writing

From what David-West has been writing, it is no news that it didn’t take him sixty years to discover that he had a talent for writing and could not give it up...

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Kwara: Mr Saraki Out, Ms Saraki In?

When a few years ago the former Governor of Kwara State, Mohammed Lawal, died in a foreign hospital after a 'protracted illness', tongues started wagging as whether his death was of normal natural cause or caused by other factors chiefly human...

Federalism, Six Regions Political Structure and Development

There is no doubt that in Belgore Committee we expect to see fireworks in the form of display of brilliance, or in the form of impressive display of grammar, and, in the sorry form of angry outburst. But given the caliber of people we have there we hope to see minimal display of the last form of fireworks...

Abia And The Agents Of Distraction

There is a theory that Governor T.A Orji of Abia State and his aides have introduced and want the general public to buy. It is a dangerous and malicious theory of hatred and brigandage...

Big Brother Africa 2 Scandal

Reality Shows are all the rage right now….I find them boring and totally pointless…

Remembering My Time with Okot p’Bitek at Great Ife

Okot p’Bitek, the great Ugandan poet, author of Song...

2009 World Aids Day: Nigeria’s Journey So Far

There are uncertainties and extensive inter-collegial disagreements over the first HIV/AIDS case in Nigeria but the fact remains that the virus is here, and is eating deep into our nation, way beyond what our governments are aware of...

Revisiting Hilary Clinton's Trip to Nigeria

Why go through all the troubles to have Mrs. Clinton visit Nigeria for five hours just to make speeches affirming US support for Nigeria? Has she not done this before? What has changed since the last time she visited Nigeria?

Thought Pyramid Art Center Opens In Benin With Modern Art Designs To Fascinate Tourists

By Ifeayinwa Onyenweli A modern private Museum, “The Thought Pyramid...

Senator Muhammadu Adamu Aliero, The Rising Profile of An Achiever

This is our toast, the toast of a long lasting covenant, the covenant of love and peace, that the Kebbi people shall remain united and that their leaders will strive to change their stations...

Dicey Loops

As the world was celebrating the 'downfall' of the 'monster' of Baghdad, the news came that the invasion was a superfluous venture...like killing a fly with a sledgehammer...