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...

Kissingerian realpolitik and Yewa Hubris

The irrational ignorance and political flaccidity of the Yewarists have put them on a democratic cross road of uncertainty. Yes, they may puff and huff, kiss and gnash their teeth at my sweeping observation, but the political interpretation of their preparedness cannot be more apt...

Iborinitis (2)

A band of stupid, senseless, brain-dead local urchins had to engage the state police in hand-to-hand combat to defend a man who stole their destiny and pauperised their future. Political education among our poor is still low in Nigeria...

Abia: Kidnapping Amidst Political Uncertainty

The season of anomie in Abia State came full circle on Sunday with the abduction of five journalists from Lagos led by the state council chairman of the Nigerian Union of journalists, Wahab Oba...

Vous Ne Savez Pas Senghor? You Don’t Know Senghor?

You would wonder aloud why can’t everyone get in line, so we can all buy the “bloody” ticket, all done within the span of one hour tops. It is bad enough we’re paying top Naira for the one way flight, please everyone remain orderly, let’s get this done in a civilized manner...

2011: Uduaghan’s Second Term Hope Dims

There are strong indications that the scenario that played out in Anambra State in 2003 when then Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju was denied a second term may happen in Delta State in 2011...

Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…

Western imperialists headed by the United States want the devil to come back and complete his evil work and experiment on Nigeria and Nigerians. The Americans who have always claimed to be our friends could not find a worthy candidate or Nigerian in a country of 150 million to lead Nigeria in 2011 except Babangida...

For PPA, Road End Beckons

The Progressive People’s Party appears to be in its last days. The founding members of the party are serially parting ways with Orji Uzor Kalu, founder of the party and chairman of its board of trustees...

Yewa and Gubernatorial Brouhaha (1)

Ogun state is in a political arm lock. The vermin called Yewa is infecting the state and convulsing the hearts and minds of other gubernatorial candidates who see Yewa’s factor as a political stumbling block to be destroyed and dismantled brick by brick...

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Why Do We Humans Die?

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Roosevelt's cabinet vs Jonathan's cabinet

Our dear President, remember how millions of our powerless fellow citizens - our widows, orphans, mentally and physically challenged, and aged pensioners - all today have no one else to look up to wipe their tears than you. Our dear President, never be misled by your eagle-eyed praise-singers...

The 2nd Senate: A Remarkable Improvement

The Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by all means and purpose is a constitutional mimic of its American counterpart because it serves no practical constitutional purpose. In short, it is a copy cat makes me look good body...

Drop the Glass

Once upon a time a university professor walked around on a stage while teaching weight and weightlessness to an auditorium filled with students...

The Dasukigate Embezzlement Mess and Our Financial Institutions

Since our anti-graft agency, Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),...

Computer Love

I have met a couple of people who met their boy/girlfriends over the internet and subsequently got married and are still happily married till this day...

A Decade of Pseudo-Democracy

It is somewhat paradoxical that our current experiment at representative government is severely deficient in its ‘representative’ component...

Is Evil the absence of God?

My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?

Never Before

Events following the authorization of political parties to hold primaries and political campaigns have been quite interesting and intriguing. One would have thought that the electioneering process would be met with the usual apathy by voters...

What is wrong with the World? The Need for a World Peace Conference

I sense a fresh inspiration  that Godlessness, lack of unity and solidarity, internationalism, arrogance and the rule  by  the ideological fanatics who appropriate to themselves “knowledge” perpetual and eternal, are some  of the factors that have resulted in the state of fear and discord world-wide...