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...

Someone Please Call 9-1-1

Last Saturday, I was listening to a radio programme on BCOS Ibadan. Towards the tail end of the live radio show, a listener called in, calling on rescue workers to come to the aid of an accident victim who was hit and ran over along a major road in Ibadan. The accident occurred about 12 hours before the caller called in...

An “Ibori-tized” Nation

Last week was simply terrible for former Governor James Onanefe Ibori and his wife, Theresa Nkoyo Ibori. In a London court, an enterprising, no-nonsense Crown prosecutor put Mrs. Ibori through a grueling cross-examination. Theresa Ibori is being tried in London for aiding and abetting her husband’s money laundering during the eight years he presided over the affairs of Delta State...

Timipre Sylva, enough of insult on non-Bayelsans

It is very sad that some public office holders in Nigeria can do anything to stay in office. This is what we have observed the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information and Strategy is doing...

Asari: When a non-Nigerian wants to upturn Nigeria?

Alhaji Mujihad Dokubo-Asari is at it again! He has been making comments that are capable of upturning the fragile peace and stability that exist not only in Rivers State, but in the country...

Of Nigerian Democracy, Governance And Profligacy

But we are going to pay Gowon, Shagari, Obasanjo, Babangida, Buhari, Abdulsalaam, and even Shonekan and their families, awesome pensions for life. And what about the families of Tafawa-Balewa, Aguiyi-Ironsi, Abacha and Umar Yar 'Adua? Are they going to get their late fathers' pensions too? 

The Need For The Electoral Crimes Commission

The truth is that when someone stole an election and benefited from its fruits without any sanctions extended to him after he was caught, others are encouraged and emboldened to do even worse in order to have the 'key' to the state treasury...

PDP's web of double-standards the vehicle riding against Nwodo

The event that saw to the emergence of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as the Peoples Democratic Party's national chairman was a two-horse race between him and the former National Vice Chairman, Mr. Chukwu Ozichukwu...

Policing ourselves: imagine that!

I wonder why we need to be policed all the time, why voluntary compliance is so lacking. Self-discipline has been thrown out the window, and we need the brutal arms of uniformed men to coerce compliance out...

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The Northern mob is senseless and filled with nothing but atavistic madness and insatiable blood lust. Once it is set loose it will not stop...

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Cutting Corners on Civil Liberties

Behaving true to his military credentials, dictatorial tendencies and inability to accept defeat as a gentleman and statesman and just move on, President Obasanjo has orchestrated the greatest assault on freedom and democracy in the past one week...

Battle over who controls the naira power

Appreciating his immense efforts in leapfrogging our financial sector will give Sanusi the courage to bring more revolutionary changes to our banking industry as his ongoing cashless policy is no longer catching up with the West but fast beating them in the race they started before us...

“A Poisoned Chalice? Bianca Ojukwu’s Appointment Sparks Outrage Amid Igbo Struggle for Political Justice”

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s recent appointment of Bianca Ojukwu...

What An Obama Presidency Should (And Might) Look Like

The immediate priorities of the new administration should be stemming the tide of economic troubles caused by the bad decisions and indecisions of the past eight years...

El’Rufai and his intellectual Boko Haramism

Going by the dexterity and zest with which Mallam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai awkwardly throws his weight against the government and, most times, the personality of President Goodluck Jonathan, one cannot but agree that there is a cult of ignorance in Nigeria, especially since this Boko Haram madness deepened in Jonathan's government...

Selfie of Fuel Scarcity

Factually and sadly, the ongoing fuel scarcity is turning...

The Tempest: Colonial Encounters and Gendered Readings (2)

Since most contemporary receptions of The Tempest from Lamming to Skura are politicised one should attempt to locate them within the Colonial/Post-Colonial dialectics in order to properly apprehend traditional criticism.