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...

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...

Jonathan, Babangida and the Sword of Damocles

Ever since Jonathan became the substantive President on May 6, 2010, it will seem that his body language has been indicating that he may contest for the Presidency in 2011, triggering a foreboding of the implications of his decision to contest or not contest for the country...

Insecurity: Beyond the Resort to Primitivism

When the US-based Fund for Peace in collaboration with Foreign Policy magazine released the 2009 Failed States Index, last year, the ranking of Nigeria as the 15th most failed nation in the world, out of the 177 countries surveyed, did not, understandably, go down well with the country’s political elite...

Impediments to democracy in Nigeria

With the 2011 election approaching, there is increasing worry that Nigerians are apprehensive about unresolved issues that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s democracy. These are corruption in the judiciary, prohibitive cost of running for election and the manipulation of the voters’ register...

Two Nigerias, separate and unequal

There are, it appears, two separate, dramatically different Nigerias existing side by side. Even though both Nigerias exist within the same space, they rarely interact. In fact, going by the sharp differences between them, these two Nigerias might as well occupy different universes...

The 'single story' of a people, by the people

Sieving through pages of history, it is quite easy to note that one of the banes of the Nigerian society is the peculiar inflexibility or outright lack of will to take advantage of available socio-economic opportunities towards entrenching a saner socio-economic and political state of affairs...

The Price of Democracy

For too long, the Nigerian people have been held hostage, taken for a ride and forced by the few rich, powerful minority to pay a huge, back-breaking price to sustain a most obnoxious, bastardized system of government...

Preserving Unity And Sustaining Democracy In A Multi Ethnic Nigeria

This speech is dedicated to the Nigerian masses, whose pains, sorrows and hardships were occasioned by government neglect. Your plight has necessitated my continued campaign and struggle for good governance...

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Money Has Wings

“Where did all my money suddenly go to?” That was a question my friend asked, directed to no one in particular as he looked at the share prices of companies in the stock exchange market published in the day’s newspaper...

Buhari 2003 – The Confusion Of An Alchemist

The Nigerian politician is self serving and would sell his birthright for a pot of soup. Abiola was betrayed. Buhari should not expect to be treated differently...

Of Erastus Akingbola, Enoch Adeboye and 8000 Instant Elders

The term 'pastor' has been commercialised to the sad extent that almost anyone can don the holy title with no qualms or queries. This is the reason our local media runs amok with stories of scandalous, adulterous, murderous and counterfeit pastors unreservedly disgracing the name of God...

Nigeria’s Strange Business of Corpses

I’m deeply troubled by what appears to me to...

Ijebu-Jesa Grammar School at 70! (1)

Paying tribute to a respected institution as it marks...

The (not so) Beautiful Game

Events over the years have left the beautiful game of football in a sorry state, especially in Nigeria. The crises can best be viewed by the state of affairs within the Nigerian Football Federation...

When Blow Becomes a Job, Trouble Ensues: 9ice vs Ruggedman

It's quite painful that unlike the popular notion that our leaders don't understand the plights of the masses, our singers too are demonstrating the same brutish approach in tackling their publicity crisis...

Ex-Gov Chime, That Was Mean!

Recently, I was jolted by a report I stumbled...

Rangers International In 9th Heaven Of Enduring Legacy  

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Obaship in Ibadanland Three-a-Kobo?

“Listen! We have done this and we have done...