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...

Sovereignty, Economic Security, Obama's visit, Jonathan, 2011 Elections and Development of Nigeria: Correlation (2)

The Americans and British, through their cabals in Nigeria, have chosen our presidents for us since 1960. The United States in particular through its secret service, the C.I.A., with annual budget running into trillions of dollars...

Sovereignty, Economic Security, Obama's visit, Jonathan, 2011 Elections and Development of Nigeria: Correlation (2)

The Americans and British, through their cabals in Nigeria, have chosen our presidents for us since 1960. The United States in particular through its secret service, the C.I.A., with annual budget running into trillions of dollars...

Ibadan State: Let The Politricks Begin

Since last week when the House of Representatives announced its intention to go ahead with the creation of more states, agitations and underground consultations had started among potential beneficiaries of the legislature’s exercise of legislative powers...

The normalization of impunity

Last week, a twelve-person jury at the Southwark Crown Court in London convicted two Nigerian women on charges of facilitating extensive money laundering activities by former Governor James Onanefe Ibori of Delta State...

Declaring a State of Emergency in Bayelsa State

A state of emergency is not a solution, politically or constitutionally, to the problems of Bayelsa state. The ultimate solutions lay in political rearrangements, common sense and tolerance...

Open letter to Alhaji Sani Yerima

It is perhaps right to state that the last has not been heard about your unceremonious marriage to a minor and the consequent barrage of public criticism it generated. June 15, 2010 is your next date with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic Persons...

Nigeria and values-based leadership

Leadership is an issue that affects all of humanity. But, visionary and true leaders are hard to find. We are each called upon to be custodians of what is right and good, lasting and of value, for those in our care at one time or another...

How to Structure the Proposed Special Courts for Electoral Offences

The promise by President Goodluck Jonathan to set up Special Courts for Electoral Offences is laudable, although I do not know the form the special courts will take. It is the appropriate structure of the proposed special courts I intend to explore here...

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Davos: What can the world economic meeting offer to Africa?

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Early Warning Signals to The Nigerian Opposition

The present altercation over the registration of the All Progressives Congress should alert the opposition in Nigeria of the type and nature of what to expect as the ruling PDP grapples to extend its rule in 2015...

A Banner Without Stain

What banner is OBJ handing on to "our" children? What brand of banner? Can he stand before Nigeria, holding the flag which is the symbol of our political and sovereign aspirations that he had directly worked to make the banner he will hand over to us that without stain?

Speaking Truth to Power: The Man of God and Mass Hysteria

"I am sure by now you have received a text message saying that Pastor E A Adeboye said you should pray from 1am to 3am so that someone close to you wont die or something like that...Well this is to let you know this text message is NOT FROM PASTOR E A ADEBOYE..."

It’s the Stats, Stupid!

Back then in the USA, it was someone in...

Chuma Nwokolo’s Great Game Against Corruption

If you’re an enlightened Nigerian but don’t know who...

Nigeria: Goodbye to Democratic Governance?

In practical terms, one can confidently argue that democratic...

Is Foreplay Un-African?

I want you all to think -seriously- the last time you did it, how much time did you put into foreplay.  Did you tease your significant other with come hither looks and subtle touches?  Did you take your time to get him or her in the mood?

Ojukaye Accuses Wike of embarking on vain glory by commissioning Obiri Ikwerri – Airport Road

The Rivers State Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC,...