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...

Corruption: Time For General Amnesty?

Nigeria needs to re-think the fight against corruption, and a general amnesty programme could offer the needed break with the unproductive, selective justice and vendetta-driven strategies of the past...

A Two Party System by Legislation?

Nigeria’s House of Representatives recently attempted  another of its legislative misadventure, when it sought to decree into existence a two party system for the country through a legislative fiat...

Tease And Tense To Rule Nigeria: How culpable is the North?

Nigeria’s political system in general is largely driven by one or two or three motives of 5Ps – profit, politics, propaganda, privilege and power. Service to society is only a pretext for gaining a foothold...

Madam Jonathan goes to Lebanon

For those who ever had doubts, Goodluck Jonathan is emerging as just another occupant of the office of president, one with little or no clue that his job is not a ticket to party all night and all day...

How to Become a Beautiful Political Bride in Low Trust Societies

Much has been written about the domination of the country’s politics by the North but without concomitant attention paid to how this is facilitated by their perception as people who keep their words. Even outside politics...

Jerome Oputa Udoji: The Exit of a Titan

He was perhaps best known for the ‘Udoji Award’ of the mid 1970s, when many public servants received huge salary increases and were also paid lump sums in arrears, following a lopsided implementation of the recommendations of the Public Service Review Commission...

Akunyili and Re-branding Nigeria Initiative

Akunyili, despite the initial overwhelming torrent of cynicisms against her taking up the position of the Federal Government’s chief spokesperson, has rather remained undaunted in her stead to continue to toe the line of truth and integrity...

Preparing our Political Leaders Properly for Power

It is simply not enough for the different geo-political zones within the nation to clamour for occupation of high political office, by their representatives, merely on the basis of federal character alone. Each zone must invest in the development of their preferred candidates...

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From The Garden of Eden to the Arena of Liberty in Lagos, Nigeria

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When A Woman Makes The First Move…

It does not happen in Lagos everyday like it does in other parts of the world, where it is perfectly normal if a lady makes the first move...

Boko Harem: Reaping the Winds of Indifference

See, the lazy man analysis of some kind of sectarian dimension to the ongoing crisis ignores a larger problem: that of indifference that has been rocking our nation since the 1980s. On three dimensions, we the citizens of Nigeria have been indifferent and today the chicken is coming home to roost...

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

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

Some Nigerians Are Stranded in China!

Some Nigerians are stranded in China. Some of these Nigerians allegedly committed some visa or immigrations infractions in China, and as a result, are said to have been detained for extended periods of time without trial or contact with the outside world...

Kibaki Like Obasanjo, Kenyans Unlike Nigerians

Politics and politicians have conspired lately to imperil the fortunes of a hitherto peaceful Kenya. The 'Uhuru' paradise is being desecrated! Destroyed!

Ted Haggard’s Haggard Tendencies

All these negative influences from abroad should and must be shunned. It may be another Sodom and Gomorrah that is coming...

Niger Delta: Sitting On Oil, Hungry For Bread! (2)

Ever since oil drilling got under way in the Niger Delta’s Oloibiri in the early 1950s, the communities that surround this stormy body of “oil-hood” have lived in dread of an environmental failure...

UN Speech: Mr. President is a Bundle of Contradictions

Last week Friday, President Muhamadu Buhari, while addressing world leaders...

2 Changes: 2 Coaches and 2 Days

Two eminent Nigerian coaches, Stephen Keshi and Shaibu Amodu,...