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...

Hypocrites eulogizing Yar’Adua

Just after the president died, those who took one cheap shot or the other at him and at his family are the very ones now praising him to heaven and hell...

Dreaded Busy Government; Drained Business Cycle!

A sustainable democracy will not result in our country until our leaders work to establish the rule of law, uphold the fundamental rights of the citizens and allow democratic institutions to grow and flourish...

Theophilus Danjuma’s Reckless Ultimatum

If General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma and members of his advisory committee wants to quit, well, they certainly have the right to do so. Their former vocation and hobbies await them...

Does Nigeria Need Re-branding?

It would be an understatement to say that Nigeria currently needs to redeem its image and consequently boost its national profile in the comity of nations...

Jonathan Goodluck, the Moral Foundation of Good Governance and the Impossibility of Change

Destiny, the factor behind the death of the late president Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, is that which also acted itself out in Jonathan’s emergence as the substantive president and the Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria...

House # 105, Wife Number 4 minus 1 the Punisher’s fable?

Is it not the Owu commander that pretended that Sharia was not an Issue and fixated political opportunism over national expediency? We pretend now we have one country, making laws that don’t matter...

Yar’Adua: See What the Cabal Has Done!

The death of any President, a country’s number one citizen is a watershed in the life of any nation. This rare but sometimes inevitable occurrence in the life of a nation often evokes a deep sense of loss and a prolonged period national mourning...

Ohakim And The Council Election Flaw!

It would sound like cliché to be told that local governments are the foundation of democracy, but for Imo State, the truth appears to remain eroded through frequent electoral procrastination...

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The Inevitable Recolonization of Africa

Many falsely assume that Africa’s first colonization was achieved largely by military means. Not true. In fact, many African rulers of those days willfully signed away their independence much the same way the people of Mayotte did at the ballot box...

Big Brother Star Game and the Gender Issue in Africa: A Revelation

Loads of critics will arise after reading this essay.  Many African feminist critics could come for my jugular. I hope though that they will appraise the issue objectively and address it effectively...

Gov. Amaechi and PDP’s Visible Regret

From the look of things, it does not require the help of a soothsayer to tell the world that the People's Democratic Party, PDP, has been regretting and also fighting already lost wars...

Gov. Jang's Incompetence and the Politicization of The Jos Crisis

According to a newspaper report, total calm is still yet to return to Jos. It is for this reason that all hands must be on deck to find a lasting solution to the crisis which has led to the loss of many lives...

Who Do Christians Venerate In CHURCH?

You shall have no other gods before me -...

Congratulations President Jonathan, You Have Just Been Re-Elected!

PDP is the worst thing that ever happened to politics in Africa. Run by greedy, crazy people who don’t care about tomorrow, they destroyed many states, especially my home state of Osun...

King Do-Not-Advise-Me

There was a supposed embargo on employment, but on an almost weekly bases, new staff joined, almost invariably related to some government official or other...

National Assembly: Not a Den of Thieves

Political party or leadership without a guiding philosophy or ideology is like a pilot without navigator. Any flight attempt will inevitably result in calamity and peril...

Righteousness Exalts a Nation

This much quoted biblical aphorism is very often avoided by prosperity pastors when they preach before man-made gods. They also do not tell the truth which says ,"What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and suffers the lose of his own soul..."

To Develop, Nigeria Must Be Decentralized

There is need for us to scratch beyond the surface to correctly diagnose the chronic disease that is rendering this immature forty seven years old giant impotent...