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...

The (Aborted) Meeting of the Igbo Political Forum

The recent blocking of a planned meeting of the Igbo Political Forum (IPF), which was to take place at the Banquet Hall of Hotel Concorde, Owerri, on Monday September 27, 2010, has generated headlines, editorials and condemnations...

Nigeria at 50 – Confusion, Tears, Sorrow and Blood

While the nation was still enthralled by the gory details of security inertia and paralysis occasioned by the state of lawlessness in Abia state, Nigerians were again woken to another rude shock. This time, it was the twin bombing at Abuja...

Ekiti Beckons to the Judiciary for Justice

For the umpteenth time, the good people of Ekiti State await the judiciary to give them desired justice in the electoral disputation over the 2007 governorship election...

The Absurdity of Being 50

When a community is tagged underdeveloped, it is the human beings who populate such community that are being described. It is against this background that it becomes imperative to sit back and evaluate the worth, the real essence and implications, the moral aura of Nigeria at 50...

Nigeria’s Dark, Bloody October

If anybody needed some dire sign that Nigeria has little to show for the first fifty years of its life, a particularly disturbing and bloody one was given last Friday...

Nigeria at 50: Independence Speech of Obafemi Awolowo

Officially, three of us - Balewa, Zik and me - were invited a few months ago to grace this golden occasion of our great nation, but we decided not to come to express our grievances on the bad state of the country....

Nigeria at 50: Independence Speech of Obafemi Awolowo

Officially, three of us - Balewa, Zik and me - were invited a few months ago to grace this golden occasion of our great nation, but we decided not to come to express our grievances on the bad state of the country....

Cheers, But Happy What?

I do feel like dragging a few things out of my diary to highlight why I, and of course, millions of Nigerians have continued to agonize as our weary beloved Nigeria has trudged on through the years...

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Of Pseudo Letter Writers and Authors

A letter is often a method or means of...

Stop the fireworks at capital market probe

The Government, again, must revive the nation’s economy by creating an enabling environment for more Nigerian businesses, particularly Small and Medium Enterprises to get listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in order to access relatively cheap funds for growth and expansion...

Check Out : Confronting Migration Issues

Lekan Fatodu affirmed on the publisher's page that Check Out magazine will liberate travellers from the old ways and chart a new path that will offer 'more than what you think you know'…

America Will Disintegrate In Ten Years: Of Glib Talkers And Massive Intelligence Failures!

Nigeria has economic, political and diplomatic ties with America, most of it at Nigeria's expense. Yet, this current American government could come out with these grossly irresponsible predictions, with its attendant implications, gratuitious insults and all, to our people and government of Nigeria and Nigeria is supposed to accept this in good faith or as a friendly act?

Just Wondering…

Why is it that in most big cities in the United States, more than thirty-percent of the cab drivers are Nigerians; and more than ten-percent of the nurses are Nigerians? What is it about nursing and cab driving that attracts Nigerians?

Encounter with Chinua Achebe: A Critique of Traditional Igbo Society

Upon my return to Lagos in February, 1974, I was commissioned by the US Embassy in Lagos to interview the author of Things Fall Apart, for publication in their magazine...

Tribute To My Peerless Pearl – Deaconess Comfort Oluremi Ajala (1952 – 2021)

'Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world...

Dear Corruption!

How are you? It’s absurd to say Hello. You...

Euphoria & Self Congratulation Over Third Term Must Wane!

When the euphoria, self-congratulatory celebrations and hoopla over the third term ends, Nigerians would have to settle down to chose a person that will be president...

Buhari and the Enemy Called Time

Last week, when he finally unveiled a partial list...