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...

Chris Okotie On His Dream For Nigeria

The occasion was Okotie’s presidential declaration for the 2011 election on the platform of the Fresh Democratic Party. If he goes ahead to run for the 2011 election, it will be his third attempt since the advent of the fourth republic...

Jonathan’s Liver Problem: How Severe?

In colloquial Nigerian lexicons, ‘liver’ could be used to describe confidence, assurance, strength and boldness. Hence when someone says “you don’t have liver” he or she is subjecting your self confidence to question...

The Great Nigerian Delusion

The Nigerian Project, whose 50th anniversary would be elaborately celebrated soon, never ceases to puzzle. Unfortunately, for so long, Nigerians have not been able to come off this jigsaw, of sorts...

Igboland: When Did Things Really Begin To Fall Apart?

That the level of insecurity in Igboland has reached unacceptable level is no longer news. In virtually all parts of the South East, daily reports of kidnapping, armed robberies and ritual murders have morphed from the gory to the macabre...

Jonathan Parties Hard while Nigeria Burns

Can someone spell out disconnected? Here the nation is in the throes of a nationwide doctors’ strike and the best and most imaginative program our president can come up with in quick succession was how to party with ten billion Naira in London?

High tension carnage (3)

It is hazardous to live under high tension transmission lines. Research has proved it accounts for reduced sperm count in the workers who regularly service the line, that fewer children are born to high tension wire workers compared to other people...

This Can’t Be Democracy

Nigeria’s independence and democracy are testaments that testify to the victory of the tenacious grimly persistent and unfaltering founding fathers of our nation...

High tension carnage (1)

Nigerians still live under wires of death 25 years after government pulled down thousands of homes under high tension lines...

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The God of Obasanjo and Fani-Kayode Versus God of Nigeria

In this article, I shall attempt to add my voice to his patriotic vociferation and make my own dialectic analysis on Femi Fani-Kayode, President Obasanjo and the God both of them claim to serve...

A Critical Appraisal of Contemporary Nigerian Politics: Foreign Assistance; Arrant Descent into Antiquated Rivalries

When a foreign friend chooses your enemy for you, you lose control. There are contemporary cases to learn from...

Challenges of Higher Education in Nigeria

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One Country, Two Presidents

Nigeria is about the only country I know in the world where things are done illegally and a majority of the citizens keep mum. Almost everyone accept illegality as a norm...

Leon Sullivan Summits and Opportunism

There is no doubt that when the African-American, Reverend Leon H. Sullivan dreamt up the idea of African Summits, he did so with the noblest of intentions. But Reverend Sullivan has been dead for five years now and today, there is increasing doubt as to whether his heirs are actually pursuing his principles...

Nigeria: How Not To Mismanage the Covid-19 Pandemic

Even though by 2015, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party...

Greece 53.5% Debt Write-down: Nigeria and Africa can do better

Nigeria during her exit from 2006 Paris Club of Creditors was granted a mere 18 percent write down for the $36 billion she owned to mostly European creditors...

Governor Obi, Obienyem: Merchants of Lies

One might as well state it as clearly and pointedly as possible: Governor Peter Obi of Anambra and Valentine Obienyem, the man who runs Mr. Obi’s sordid propaganda machine, are merchants of lies. In fact, Mr. Obienyem, the governor’s Man Friday, is a depraved manufacturer of falsehood...

Supreme Court May Determine Case Of AGs Of Kaduna, Kogi And Zamfara On Merit

I am old enough to know that the case...