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...

Will Sanusi Keep Talking?

A recent report shows that the Nigerian economy is amongst the top ten growing economies for the year 2010; but what matters to the common Nigerian is basically the affordability of goods and services, availability of jobs and his ability to eat three square meals a day....

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...

Nigeria: Path to a New Beginning

Nations are  not exactly run like business enterprise or interest specific organizations. Yet, strategy that are employ by business/organization to ensure success and growth could be applied to  government at all level to ensure overall improvement and  efficiency...

Nigeria may be ‘fragile’, Not a failed State!

Political violence has by and large been a part of the nation’s political lexicon for a very long time. In a sense, therefore, one could say that it is all part of the process, that indeed in our effort towards creating a fully functioning system of democracy, it is quite natural for us to come to terms with such realities...

What manner of representation is this?

Can any Nigerian among the many who are daily buffeted by sundry poor service providers ever walk into the office of any parliamentarian anywhere in the country and get heard and helped in any way? Do most Nigerians even know the constituency offices of their so-called representatives?

My Nigeria and my social responsibility

Patriotism may indeed be the last refuge of Nigerian people. But despite that, it is never a wise thing to question a person’s integrity only because he or she does not agree with the accuser...

Atiku’s drumbeaters the sound of their talking drum

While Atiku may be rejoicing now for the way he scaled the Northern Political Leaders' Forum screening, he should as well be remembering the days he narrowly escaped the PDP’s waiver magnet during the period he defected from the Action Congress...

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Ademakinwa: What’s left of life?

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Lamentations of a Writer

Somebody should have told me way back that I'll someday carry burdens like Atlas of ancient Greece which no one can help offload from my heart. For if I had known, I would have played out the worst-case scenario in my mind...

There May Be Trouble Ahead

There may be trouble ahead, but we should still be hopeful and optimistic for Yar’Adua’s new government...

Saving Nigeria from economic delusion

News that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank have classified African economies as recording fast growth and could become growth drivers for the entire globe hit the air waves last week to the delight of many Africans...

My World Without Women!

A man's best friend is actually a woman even when he denies and refuses to admit. As loyal friends, they would not dump you even after they marry and would make you become their husband's friend so they can keep you forever as a friend...

Welcome to Sociocracy: Against AK-47 Democracy in Nigeria

It is the Western man and not the African...

Education in Nigeria: Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai and the “Education Roadmap”

Can Minister Rufai’s four areas of reform be the catalyst to help revamp and redirect education in Nigeria? Can Minister Rufai overcome the problem of policy implementation?

What If Obama Nominated A Black Woman To The US Supreme Court?

As a matter of diversity and demographics which truly reflects America, it is well past time when an African American woman arrives at the hallowed halls of the US Supreme Court...

Ndigbo: As 2019 Beckons

For Ndigbo, another chance beckons in 2019. Yes, in...