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...

Street Tales of a President’s Death

The President was truly dead. I didn’t know what to feel. Relief or Regret? I rushed out only to be confronted by a group of acquaintances who were passionately arguing about the implication of the President’s demise...

Where are the other Iboris?

Mention the name James Onanefe Ibori and many different emotions and impressions flood the Nigerian mind. The man is seen as a personification of arrogance and avarice. He’s perceived as an embodiment of the worst in the Nigerian “misruling” class...

Going Nowhere Slowly

By the time the dewy eyes of genuine mourners of late President Umaru Yar'Adua dry up, Nigerian politics will go into over-drive. Political contenders are already flexing their bulging muscles and they are loaded with what it takes...

Open Letter To President Goodluck Jonathan

We were probably most democratic in pre-October 1960 under the British Colony when the people were more in participation with the national integration. Soon after that, our journey has been in the valleys of various non-democracies, all of course installed in our name...

Political Parties and Check List(s)

All Nigerians should be on their guard since the National Assembly has not passed Justice Uwais electoral reform recommendations...

Babangida: Insensitivity Carried Too Far

There is this perennial, seductive belief out there that IBB is a moving huge bag of money. This bag, though, horribly stained and very unattractive to people with any sense of decency, contains billions of naira and has very generous holes ready to “drop” at any time...

Speaking Truth to Power: Imperative of a Goodluck Presidency

It appears that the recent but unavoidable drama made out of the late President Yar’Adua’s health by the so called ‘cabal’ was motivated by moves to subvert and manipulate the constitution for personal and selfish gain...

Pres. Goodluck Jonathan: Do Good by Nigerians

Being the chosen one in a nation like Nigeria can be fraught with difficulty. The presidency, which to so many is the Holy Grail of Nigerian politics, can quite easily become a poisoned chalice. It is a position which is as prestigious as it is problematic...

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