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...

Defining Fundamentalism

With  the current and past political challenges in Nigeria, a more Nigerian model of terrorism has gained prominence in our political, economic and social dynamics...

How Will Jega Handle Touts and Hooligans?

Politicians across the nation are planning, political underdogs are panting, and law abiding citizens of Nigeria are panicking as we drive towards 2011...

Restoring confidence in Nigerian youth

The utter disbelief among a greater number of the Nigerian youth regarding what is in store for them in the Nigerian project, and of course, their future has culminated in all sorts of social disruption...

INEC, Adequate Time and Credible 2011 Elections in Nigeria

President Goodluck Jonathan has promised Nigerians free, fair and credible general elections by next year. I believe he means business...

Death Of Our Big Men

Nigerian leaders and big men dying on us is no news. In the days of the second republic, many governors affected by the Muhammadu Buhari putsch lost their lives just before or after their prison experiences...

How to be a Deputy Governor

Why any politician would aspire or accept to be a worthless “spare tyre” deputy governor or any type of second-in-command at all in this warped democracy is one question I have always pondered on having observed with depression the plight of those politicians...

The Bridge to Nowhere (1)

When aspiring or incumbent politician’s seasonally turn to the occasional political stunts or grandstanding or gimmickry, it is almost an afterthought, no matter what...

Ensuring Peace In Jos

To achieve peace in Jos, all stakeholders must be brought on board, not just a handful of political dumb-nuts. Bringing all stakeholders together must be done without any concession to ethnic, religious, political and economic affiliation...

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The Demons and Ghosts In the Villa

Dr Reuben Abati was reportedly arrested last week by...

Baroness Amos, I Thought You Were Better Than This!

I do not believe you are entitled to deny the real fact that the main challenge facing the Black race is to build our own successful societies...

PDP vs. PDP: Tale of MDD-MRD and 2007

The third term agenda of the current administration has indeed ruffled some distinguished feathers across the nation. From civil society to human rights activist and to some journalists, the congregation has risen in unison to condemn the personification of politics and its attempt to change our lives through the backdoor by the Obasanjo administration and his cronies...

Leadership Peculiarities: Glimpses From Kenya And Nigeria

African rulers have a way of building with their right hand and destroying with their left hand...

One Nigeria: To Be or Not To Be? (Part 6)

Today, only the North is ready to spill blood or go on another 'killing rampage' in order to keep Nigeria one. This is more than enough evidence to support the claim that the North can not sustain itself and relies completely on the resources of the South to survive...

Early Warning Signals to The Nigerian Opposition

The present altercation over the registration of the All Progressives Congress should alert the opposition in Nigeria of the type and nature of what to expect as the ruling PDP grapples to extend its rule in 2015...

Insider, Outsider: A Meditation on life in America

Life can be unkind here, sometimes. So it is everywhere else in the world, you may say. But in America, it is especially. We come here, compared to other places, dreaming of possibility. “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses…,” the statue of liberty, beckons.    Then we face reality...

Nigeria: From Egypt to Egypt?

Those who are familiar with the history of the...

Saturday’s Governorship Elections In Nigeria And The Credibility Of The Electoral Commission

As the November 11, 2023, governorship elections in Imo,...

Constitutional Amendment, Not Sovereign National Conference, Is Pathway To A Reformed Polity (2)

Contrary to popular thought, there is in fact no new 1999 Constitution. What we have is the re-adoption of the 1979 Constitution...