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...

Ijaw Agitation So Far

The Niger Delta crisis is essentially a governance of crisis, for almost six decades the Ijaw - amongst other ethnic groups in the region - have mobilized within to seek redress...

Jonathan’s Radicalism or Bloody Revolution? (1)

Amazing how the issue of zoning or not produced gra gra and brouhaha and even exposed our democracy to a far more savage form of political, cabal and social polarization under our watch...

Nigeria Assets And Liability

A critical analysis of the country, Nigeria, would show a country with an immense opportunity and priceless assets but also an equally dysfunctional society...

Does The Rule Of Law Still Exist?

So many things have happened in Nigeria that are so unimaginable, to think of it will drain the tears in one's eye. I feel pity for Nigerians because we have suffered too much in the hands of these cabal...

Why Late President Umaru Musa Yar' Adua Deserves A Post Humous Award

The antecedent of democracy saw the change Nigeria has always clamoured for in the days of Umaru Musa Yar' Adua as president...

Jonathan’s Pledge to the N20 Billion Red Cross Appeal Fund

If we take the disaster in Haiti that occurred early this year as a natural disaster, what are we going to take the incessant killings of human beings and the destruction of their hard earned property in Jos...

Puny Men, Vendors of Impunity

Bankole appears to be an expert in matters of pugilism. Last June, he presided over a session of the House that degenerated into an all-out brawl. That shoving, clawing, knuckle-throwing and clothe-tearing spectacle has since become a top draw on youtube...

Nigeria’s Readiness For 2011 Elections

Nigeria's crucial moments; her golden anniversary slated for October 1st, 2010 and the 2011 general election scheduled for April 2011 are making international headlines...

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Fuel Price Hike: Nigerians Cannot Be the Only Ones Paying the Price (2)

The latest increase in the pump price of petrol...

Going Back Home

Bruce Warioba is my actual name. I had to change it to Warris when I arrived England in the sixties. I was black and I didn’t want to add to the trouble by telling them a name they would not understand thereby relegating me totally...

Money Laundering and Public Accountability

The elitist practice of acquisition of homes abroad has become the norm among politicians in spite of the law against it and the devalued Naira cost.  It would not matter if the person was independently wealthy and not a public servant in Nigeria...

Nigeria: From zombie military to zombie democracy

The political and economic ruins the military left behind when handing over to civilians still have their ripple effects on the country even more than a decade after the soldiers left the scene. The poor state of our democratic culture is demonstrating that...

Oshodi: Mud And Muck, After Rain

Don’t allow your wife to take what rightly belongs to you to another man. Come and pick up an envelope…

2015: ‘Person’ of the Year!

The year 2015 has gone down in history as...

Boko Haram: Something Is Not Right

In the early hours of April 14 2014, Boko...

The Dalai Lama and the New South Africa: Today and in Hindsight

Given the circumstances that surrounded the birth of the new South Africa, many had expected that issues of especially liberty, would shape and dictate the trajectory of South Africa's foreign policy...

Aburi: The “Sovereign National Conference” That Got Away

By failing to implement the Aburi decisions, Nigeria missed a golden opportunity to find a constitutional arrangement acceptable to all of its constituent parts...

NYSC: National Youth Service Corps or National Youth Slaughtering Corps?

It goes without saying, however, that due to matters arising, the time has come for us to go back to the drawing board with an eraser and wipe out certain programmes, schemes, etc., which have outlived their usefulness or at least have been rendered moot by certain happenings in certain quarters...