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...

Rebranding Nigeria: Why Dora ‘Absconded’!

Nigeria needs rebranding, no doubt. Indeed it is long overdue. And this was why many of us seemed to have jumped at the choice of Dora and consoled ourselves because of her success at NAFDAC. This was also why it was comforting that Dora was quick on the draw about it...

Do We Need Any Constitutional Role for Traditional Rulers?

Around the 27th of December 2010, the news media reported the promise by President Goodluck Jonathan to send a Bill to the National Assembly for the purpose of enshrining in the Constitution some role(s) for Nigerian traditional rulers. The debate over the propriety or otherwise of such a constitutional provision has been raging in Nigeria...

Great Ogboru: When Greatness Beckons!

Chief Ogboru was alleged to be the civilian who bank-rolled the military operation and when the effort failed spectacularly he beat a quick escape using the famous 'NADECO route' like the articulate Lt. Col Tony Nyiam and Major Saliba Mukoro implicated in the failed coup bid. Today these gentlemen are all alive...

Atiku’s Desperation to Resume Misrule

Obasanjo and Atiku ruined the most prosperous years of our nationhood. They knew NOTHING about governance but MUCH about misgovernance. They squandered what a man like Obafemi Awolowo would have used to put Nigeria ahead of the Asian tigers and Brazil...

Jonathan Goodluck and PDP Presidential Primaries: Issues and the Probable Outcome

Card carrying and non-card carrying members of the PDP are aware of how Jonathan’s ambition has created serious cracks within the rank and file in the PDP, therefore, based on the factor of political risk, it may be argued that the probability is on the high side that most party delegates and stakeholders will work against the emergence of Jonathan as the PDP presidential flag bearer...

Jonathan Goodluck and PDP Presidential Primaries: Issues and the Probable Outcome

Card carrying and non-card carrying members of the PDP are aware of how Jonathan’s ambition has created serious cracks within the rank and file in the PDP, therefore, based on the factor of political risk, it may be argued that the probability is on the high side that most party delegates and stakeholders will work against the emergence of Jonathan as the PDP presidential flag bearer...

Popular Myths and Misconceptions about Nigeria

Up until very recently, some of the myths Nigerians wallowed in included the idea that Nigerians had nothing to do with international terrorism. Abdul Mutallab’s 2009 christmas day stunt jettisoned such myth, putting Nigeria on the terror list with full flare...

A Chronicle of Goodluck Jonathan’s Misdemeanours

Deciding which presidential candidate to support in 2011 has been an almost impossible task for non partisan citizens like me who greatly loath Nigeria’s version of politics...

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Combating the Energy Crisis in Nigeria: The Way Forward

Energy plays an important role in the Nigerian economy especially due to its crude oil dependence. For this reason, setbacks in its production has had immense national impact...

Wanted for Nigeria: Good Leaders with Sacrificial Mien!

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The God of Obasanjo and Fani-Kayode Versus God of Nigeria

In this article, I shall attempt to add my voice to his patriotic vociferation and make my own dialectic analysis on Femi Fani-Kayode, President Obasanjo and the God both of them claim to serve...

Who Is Happy To Be Black?

If Black people have never been and are still not good enough in this 21st century to construct their own roads, airports, presidential villas, etc., or even to imagine exploring their own mineral resources, when will they ever be?

INEC in the Eye of the Storm Again! The Curious Case of Prof. Amupitan’s CV

When Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) was nominated by...

Making Lagos Work

There is no doubt that development and the needed leadership that should have transformed Lagos into a functional city comparable to some of the best cities in the world took flight with the forced exit of the civilian administration in 1983...

Anambra State Election Verdict: Now that the Truth has been revealed…

To every thesis there is an antithesis and to this a synthesis. However, truth is a never dying process. The truth is that there was no election in Nigeria in 2003 and there won’t be one come 2007...

No Reason To Be Poor

Indians and Chinese have been regarded as the 4th and 5th largest ethnic groups in Nigeria after Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba. You need to see how those guys flock into Nigeria on daily basis to explore the windows of opportunities that abound in Nigeria...

Christians and the Born-Again Phenomenon

My generation was born, grew up, and came of age at a time when Nigeria was not this disordered. It was a time when poverty was not this rampant and entrenched. It was a time when religion and spirituality was not overly commercialized...

Thoughts on the Nigerian Mentality: Combative Mode

Can my enemy or my former enemy ever be right? Can he posses a smidgen of truth? The answer to this question might well reside on whether we are able to reboot and let go of our corrosive state of injury...