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...

Jonathan And The Wrong Question

Once again, Nigerians are caught in the trap of asking, and seeking to answer, the wrong question. This time, the question has to do with Goodluck Jonathan: Should he, or shouldn’t he, run in the forthcoming presidential election?

For Nigeria; What Have You to Contribute?

If someone were to ask what the most crippling problem of Nigeria is, we will not have a moment’s hesitation in deciding that it is infidelity and irresponsibility to the affairs of the nation...

Are Igbo Women the most educated in Nigeria?

Is it known by other Nigerians that Igbo society is a matriarchy? The men may not subscribe to that. But, are they not trying to prove it to the world?

Identified Challenges

Economically, the Niger Delta region is doomed with resources under-allocation...

Civil Service Reform In Nigeria: The British Example!

This write-up proposes to look at the recent changes in the public administration in Britain and offer some comments on and assessment of the Nigeria scenario...

Before Nwodo Commits Suicide!

As Nwodo has publicly declared his intention to lay down his precious life so that Nigerians can enjoy the dividends of democracy that has eluded us ever since the PDP came into our lives he will definitely be a hero in the event that we see changes...

Historical Perspective On The Niger Delta

The Niger Delta region is faced with a lot of developmental and environmental challenges including high level of poverty, decline in agricultural production, low level of industrial activities, environmental degradation and social conflicts...

Kidnapping: Tasks Before South East Governors

The governors of the five South-Eastern states, with prominent leaders of thought from the region in tow, cut a pitiable look when they went cap-in-hand to meet with “Big Brother Abuja”, President Goodluck Jonathan recently...

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When Advise Becomes Abuse

Some folks do not want their friends to correct them. And when the friends do, they use abuse in place of correcting the friends. We must be open to accepting correction, because any wrong that silence is used as the best option makes abuse the order of the day...

The Voice of Mutallab, the Hands of the Dead

It must be said that the complicity and guilt of the northern establishment finds comfort in the attitude of the Nigerian media and intelligentsia. The imperative of naming names and ascribing responsibility for these things to specific people and fragments of Nigerian society – where evidence abounds – has always given way to clever demission and political correctness...

Iran's Unchallenged Progress to the Nuclear Club: A Threat to World Peace

Iran has now a presence in space! She has launched her first two-stage satellite into orbit. A situation that has put the new administration in Washington on the defensive...

Bayo Onanuga: Spewing Ethnic Hatred As Weapon Against Mass Hunger

These are very dangerous days in Nigeria. “These are times...

A Treatise on the Historical, Theoretical Issues in the Middle- East Crisis

The Middle East has been a theatre of constant religious, ideological and struggles against ancient regimes...

Death and Sex: The Forbidden Topics

Aside of death, sex is another matter Africans don't like talking about. But you see sex is everywhere. One way or the other, once or a thousand times in one's lifetime, we'll all engage in it...

Black Stars Shine On A White Sky

Halle Berry…She can wear my father’s farm clothes and still look astonishing...If your wife or girlfriend caught you cheating with her in Colorado, she will give you a medal of honor. I think any man that wants to keep Halle Berry to himself is selfish and does not wish humanity well...

We are Asari Dokubo!

We from the Niger-Delta should carry this consciousness about and around us: that anytime Asari Dokubo is put in chains and locked up in a Black Maria, it is we who are also locked in a Black Maria and are in chains. I say this because there are a couple of persons in our midst who are mostly responsible for the travails of the Niger Delta...

When God Taught Me Lessons On Faith

Though God gave us mental abilities, he still expects us to seek his opinion before we take off on our tangent. And because we rely and trust he has good plans for us, a relationship with him develops and grows in intimacy as we continually depend on him...