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...

Gulf of Mexico oil spill: What lessons for Nigeria?

It is striking that while the US government, knowing “just how precious the Louisiana wetlands are”, have been firing on all cylinders to cause the BP to pay for a one-off incidental spill, the Nigerian state and its institutions have over the years been working in tandem with oil companies to systematically despoil and impoverish the Niger Delta wetlands...

Development; Why Have You Eluded Us?

Why is it that our contemporaries are well ahead of us in all indices of development? Are we really making progress in Nigeria? Why has development eluded us? What did we do wrong? What are we doing wrong?

Hard Talk on Yoruba Race

Will the concept of Omoluwabi erase the plethora of disturbing hubris that has continued to paralyse Yoruba’s competing edge, egalitarian spirit and progressive tradition?

Nigerian Big Men Our Daughters

When will Nigerian big men stop assaulting our intelligence? When will they stop defiling our land, our daughters and beating up our sisters?

Before The First Whistle in the 2010 South Africa World Cup

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa...

Before The First Whistle in the 2010 South Africa World Cup

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa...

Before The First Whistle in the 2010 South Africa World Cup

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa...

Ribadu Again, A Rejoinder

Nobody in the recent political history of Nigeria since the re-introduction of democratic governance has given of himself single-handedly to the fight against the institutions of corruption and instruments of corruption in Nigeria like Nuhu Ribadu...

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One Nigeria: To Be Or Not To Be? (5)

Our fathers, grand fathers and great grand fathers got independence for us from the British, but the North recolonised us immediately before the British even lowered the Union Jack...

Cries of Biafra and Woes of Nigeria

We take so much pride in telling lies to...

My Interview with Jonathan Goodluck

"Could you please address me as “Your Excellency.” My official position demands you address me as such. You know I have a doctorate degree, I have chieftaincy titles five times over, I have been a governor and now I am just a heartbeat from the presidency…"

Ahmadu Alli: A Man Of National Honor Or Horror?

It is a height of crassitude for organizers of the National award in Nigeria to vacuously consider bestowing a National Honor on this horrific man known as Ahmadu Alli whilst men and women who actively and sedulously worked towards the emancipation and liberation of our Country are superciliously discounted...

Sanusi: A Radical in a Conservative Job?

In what would appear to be a reckless outburst of emotions, Sanusi was quoted as saying that the sacked bank executives now standing trial at the various courts in the country deserved to die by firing squad for eroding public confidence...

Ben Okri: A Rousing Bard

Ben Okri is one of those extant writers who aim to and do rouse social consciousness, impart knowledge; one of those writers whose work is of cosmic proportion...

Gender Equality: Men And Women Are Not Equal

I sometimes wonder if we truly can speak of gender equality; and even if we can, I wonder if equality is always healthy and always desirable. Most of us in the West are simply parodying the West instead of being “true to ourselves...

Between Evangelical Opportunists and Opportunism

Religion, like politics, is an effective powerful weapon of social control. For good or bad it has transformed individual societies and shaped the faith of man towards divinity...

Can Ndanusa's Vision for Sports Stop Corruption, Mismanagement, and Broken Promises?

Minister Ndanusa has pledged to reengineer the sports industry, a sector plagued with corruption, mismanagement, and gross neglect. This paper discusses Ndanusa’s vision for sports development within the context of the privatization of sports and national development...

Media in politics: The Tinubu example

“The world is a complex place, and the influence...