Nigeria Matters

Oyebanji: The countdown starts!

At exactly 1:34 pm on Friday, October 16, 2026, Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji (BAO) took the Oath of Allegiance as Governor of Ekiti State for...

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...

Oil: Diversification And Economic Development

We may not develop and diversify our economy if we continue to rely on oil as the mainstay of our economy and source of foreign exchange. We need to diversify our economy if we hope to ever grow...

2011: Life under a Weakened Presidency

To say the current Presidency is embattled will be a glaring understatement. Isn’t the tell tale signs of a beleaguered Presidency evident in this breakneck and frenzied race to the 2011 elections?

Can Northern Governors Stop Jonathan?

Without admitting it publicly, the greatest problem Northerners in the ruling People’s Democratic Party have in wrestling the 2011 presidential ticket of the party from President Goodluck Jonathan is the absence of a formidable aspirant that can win votes across the country...

Honours In Our National Pantheon: A Case For Chukwuma Nzeogwu And Emmanuel Ifeajuna

Emmanuel Ifeajuna is one of the most unfairly maligned Nigerians I have read about. Even among his fellow Igbo, uninformed ones swallow the propaganda that he was at the heart of efforts to destroy Biafra...

Atiku’s Wavering Presidential Ambition

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who formally declared on August 15, 2010 for his 2011 presidential ambition on the platform of the People's Democratic Party is facing uncertainties in the party...

Ibrahim Babangida: Presidential Candidate Or Fugitive From Justice?

Common Sense should have told Ibrahim Babangida, head of the illegal Military junta that ruled Nigeria 1985-1993, that his current image-laundering exercise in the guise of Presidential Contest is no solution to his problem with Nigerians...

Speaking Truth to Power: Who Say We Tire? Nigeria at 50!

Many have suggested, including I, that perhaps our national deliverance will come from those residing in Diaspora, however, my recent experience does not bare this out...

Lekki-Epe Expressway Toll Palaver– government versus people

The raging controversy over the erection and collection of tolls on the yet-to-be completed Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos State, Nigeria is a classic example of the consequences of dearth of communication between the government and the governed...

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My Countrymen Lie On A Bed Of Nails

The Niger-Delta. My Niger-Delta. Why has it been difficult for me to jump in the fray for as long as the conflict in that area has lasted? Am I immune to the devastating effects that oil exploration and the debilitating effects that poverty has on the disposition of the aforesaid region?

Gov. Orji, Partnering Governance With Lies

The Abia State Government-led by Governor Theodore Orji, without equivocation, sees lies as the best policy to replace good governance with...

Unacceptable Levels

Dioxin is potentially carcinogenic and is toxic to the immune and reproductive systems. It has been linked to endometriosis and lower sperm counts for men. It also breaks down the immune system.

Before Government Forecloses the Education of Poor Nigerians

There is no free education anywhere in Nigeria. The only governments that provided free education in Nigeria were the Action Group and Unity Party of Nigeria administrations of the former Western Region during the First and Second Republics...

Who sings to Mothers of the Damilola Taylors of the World?

Who sings the songs of consolation to millions of unknown mothers whose Children are plucked off the face of the earth, who slump and die daily...

The normalization of impunity

Last week, a twelve-person jury at the Southwark Crown Court in London convicted two Nigerian women on charges of facilitating extensive money laundering activities by former Governor James Onanefe Ibori of Delta State...

The Questions Governor Adeleke Has Refused to Answer

By Olusola Iyiade In the theatre of power, silence is...

On The Rape Of The Rule Of Law In Ogun State House Of Assembly

The September 6, 2010 impeachment of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker of Ogun State House of Assembly and suspension of 15 members of the House, including the impeached Speaker, by only nine (9) members of the 26-member House is another attempt at disparaging Nigeria`s efforts at enthroning constitutionalism...

It’s time to choose candidates – Princewill

Fresh after returning from the national convention of the...

Are Diaspora Nigerians Ashamed of Nigeria? Pt 2

After landing, we were not allowed to leave the plane for 4 hours. Passengers argued that we were being treated with neglect because the flight was from Africa and full of Nigerians…