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...

Is Governor Peter Obi's APGA losing grip of Anambra State?

APGA's poor showing on the recent Nigerian elections may be due lack of strategic planning and absence of Dim Ikemba Ojukwu...

Two Governors and Many Missing Opportunities

In the absence of clear and complete explanation and indeed justification of any government action, people are left with no alternative but to speculate. Consequently, a lot of possible reasons and opinions are going around regarding the actions of the Governors...

Ibadan: Romancing the one-term jinx

Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, the outgoing Governor of Oyo State is a disturbed man. His valorous stand off to the imperial conceit of Ibadan social, intellectual and traditional elite is truly Ogbomoshonian in its breathtaking performance...

Rochas Okorocha; The Man And His Mandate!

For some days now, we were recipients of the much acclaimed, generally well deserved, received and respected news that Owelle Rochas Okorocha will be helming the government of Imo State...

The Nigerian Front: The Preamble

Every generation is often presented with opportunities to offer definition, scope and direction to its nation.  This extends to the construction of defining values, the anchoring of the nation’s progress and creating an all-inclusive space for its development...

A New Day in Nigeria and End of Election Malpractices

Nigeria is the economic powerhouse of West Africa and the giant of Africa. Nigeria as a nation and as a people can no longer afford to shy away from their collective destiny of greatness...

Befitting Nigerian National Honors, As NYSC Members Die On National Duty

Nigeria's human refinements index must be measured and re-calibrated by how Nigerians and Nigeria take care of the poor, the most under-privileged and how we honor our dead...

The South East in the Jonathan era

Basking in the euphoria of the massive votes the region gave to President Goodluck Jonathan during the April 16 presidential election, some members of the National Assembly from the zone started clamouring for positions in the name of the zone...

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Respect and Abuse!

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Women and Security: A Call for Feminist Leadership in Nigeria

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African Men And The Culture Of Many Women

I know American men who, despite being married, admire other women and some of them do date other women outside marriage. So that is not an African thing. That is a man thing...

‘We Must Get The Nigeria Project Right’ – Pat Utomi

‘Prof. Utomi stands heads and shoulders taller than all the candidates who are currently jostling for Nigeria’s top job, in terms of integrity, character and intellectual assets’

Fixing Murtala Mohammed “Air-Nightmare”

Nothing best exemplifies the state of Nigeria’s leadership than the dilapidating state of the gateway to the nation, the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja. An airport that sits strategically as not only a possible gateway to Nigeria, but West Africa as well as the rest of the World...

A question of honour for INEC and NBA

The honour of two apparently distinct and different bodies, INEC and the NBA, has been clearly challenged by two of their stakeholders and for everybody’s sake these two bodies cannot afford to pretend that the challenge was not thrown...

Africa: Five Hundred Years to Progress

One need not dig deep into the mind of White Americans and their European counterparts to know what they think of Africans. You know it, and I know it, too...people incapable of a common task and unable to solve complicated tasks...

Men Are Like Cars

Men are like cars.  Some days you wake up, enter your car and just drive off. On other days, you cannot help but wonder the point of having a car…