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...

Gen. Ibrahim Babangida “Writes” Nigerians!

My 2011 presidential enterprise is on and no one will persuade me to drop the idea of ruling this great nation again as a democratically-elected President - one that is not associated with tanks and guns...

Why the Government May Be Wrong on The New ‘Minimum’ Wage

No one will dispute that our workers deserve decent wages that will guarantee social self-reproduction without recourse to moonlighting, bribery and corruption or primitive accumulation...

Rural Farmers In Nigeria: Any need for Land Reform?

The traditional land use pattern of farms, woodlots, hamlets, villages, and towns that shaped Nigeria's physical geography over the last three centuries is still evident in the landscape today...

An Apology to Wole Soyinka

Last Tuesday was the 76th birthday of Wole Soyinka, extraordinary dramatist, poet, professor of literature, renaissance man, and one of the world’s greatest humanists...

Kidnapping In South-East Nigeria: Tracking Collaborators; Tracing Hide-Outs!

The tragic assassinations of innocent Nigerians in the cause of Kidnapping have once again brought to the surface the continuing deterioration in the law and order situation in the country...

Political Zoning Trust: Credence Lacking, Bereft Of Experience

Did Obasanjo trust Atiku? Vice Versa.  If elections were held, in these times of high oil prices per Barrel, the zoning will be done by the electorate and the party. I believe in employment now...

Stealing Statesman: A Faceless option of Nigerian Politician

Since Nigerian politicians have redefined public service as an avenue for wealth acquisition, and have out of greed disingenuously compromised honor that leads to statesmanship, the Nigerian masses should rise up to the challenge by check-mating their insensitivity...

The Judiciary as Temple of Corruption

Nigeria, sadly, has not been particularly fortunate in its drive to evolve a functional democratic governance since 1999, which could deliver the oft-mentioned but elusive dividends to the people, principally because of the unspeakable greed of its political class, and the attendant impunity accentuated by a seemingly compromised and disabled judiciary...

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Remembering Ray…Again

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A Telegenic Revolution Is Not Yet Born

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It is Premature to Hail the Chief

To say the current President Bush is “great” is premature. We don’t know. We simply don’t know yet! And we cannot know until a while into the future..

Feedback And Comments To “The Illusions And Delusions Of Nigerians In Diaspora” – Author’s Reply

I do not often find myself defending any article that I write, but following the feedback and many comments that I have received after writing the article “The Illusions and Delusions of Nigerians In Diaspora”, I felt constrained to make a few further comments...

Save Nigeria’s imports-dependent economy

In this era of technological revolution, a sequel of the industrial era, Nigeria should jump on the bandwagon of promising knowledge economy that predominantly drives the development of new technologies, skills, strategies, processes, procedures and aptitudes to revive the nation’s comatose industrial sector...

An Imperfect World, Ol’ Boy

I have no challenging and troubling spots. All my life, I have worked my destiny to the bone to live a perfect lifestyle. Until…Yes, until one hot afternoon when my neighbour, as garrulous as ever, perforated the bubble of my pretences...

Exploits of Nigeria Para-Powerlifting Federation President Ezenwanne

The President of the Nigeria Para-Powerlifting Federation, Ichie Chiemeka Charles...

Letters from the Ashes

The night before Saturday morning was difficult to devour,...

Of Obafemi Awolowo and Yemi Osinbajo

Obafemi Awolowo and Yemi Osinbajo were  both  born in...

Just Like Abe Lincoln…Dr. Alex Ekwueme

Like Abe Lincoln, Ekwueme is humble, unassuming, a dedicated family man, quiet. And like Abe, Ekwueme has deeply thinking eyes and a forehead that speaks of great wisdom...