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...

Concurrent Commiseration and Congratulation: Our National Dilemma

The foreigners might mourn with us, their eyes are however not blind from the ubiquitous I-don’t-care attitudes, neither are their nostrils blocked such that they can’t sense the cosmopolitan opportunistic aura emanating from our political circuits...

Nigeria's Forgotten Heroes: Nnamdi Azikiwe – “Father of the Nation” (Part 2)

As Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first post independence Head of State, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was to Nigeria, what George Washington is to America, Nkrumah is to Ghana, Nasser is to Arabs, and Mandela is to South Africa...

Niger Deltans must control the NNPC

For years since independence, the North has always insisted on controlling the police, the army, the petroleum that they do not produce and even produce the president. Where this whole bravado came from I cannot tell...

Yar’Adua’s death and debt to history

Umaru Yar’Adua’s death last week at the age of 58 was not enough, in the end, to settle the man’s debt to history. One was not surprised that the man’s passing provoked that rather predictable brand of biographical revisionism that death encourages in us...

Yar'Adua and the lesson of history

As flags flutter at half mast following the death of Nigeria's former president, late Musa Yar'adua, the events leading to his demise speak volumes in terms of impact and lessons for the country...

Turai Yar'adua: Beware of her ‘kunu-seller’ looks!

Under different circumstances, could there have been a few traits in this woman that might have been a virtue? I leave you to conclude. Did she want her husband to be in power for the good of our country? No. She wanted him in power but it was for her own sake...

Goodluck, his Ambition, the Electoral Process and Nigeria

With the death of President Musa Yar'Adua and the bitter altercations that attended his last days way behind us, there is every need to remind President Goodluck Jonathan that Nigeria is a work begging for urgent attention...

Nigerian Diplomacy in the Transition Period

After the Acting President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan's successful visit to the United States of America, where he participated in the global summit on nuclear security, Nigerian diplomacy seems to have found approval amongst African states...

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The Random Thoughts of a Tiny Man

Excuse me, the plane will not take off unless you fasten your seat belt and switch off that phone…Why do Nigerians ring up friends to inform them the plane is about to take off?

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Sino-Japanese Territorial Dispute

Chinese diplomacy is firing on all engines in forcefully defending its territorial sovereignty and national integrity. The current Sino-Japanese dispute over the Diaoyu islands and rights over the territorial sea has taken on serious dimensions...

Barack Obama and Lewis Hamilton: Two Champions in Prospect

By some quirk of providential randomness, two men unrelated to each other, but united and defined by an uncommon sense of ambition and singularity of purpose will have their respective professional destinies determined within days of each other...

An Abject Abdication of Responsibility (2)

My issue with Obasanjo is his abject abdication of responsibility and refusal to take the blame, as a good and great leader should do. He practically admitted that people in his government were corrupt, but tried desperately to absolve himself of any blame. This in itself was corruption...

Fulani Herdsmen: A Road Not Taken

The title of this piece, “Road Not Taken” was...

2015 Presidency: If I Were Rochas Okorocha…

From the mouth of his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, we heard that Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha is interested in contesting the 2015 presidential election...

When Nigeria Won Her First World Cup In 1977

Not many Nigerians know that the country won a...

Unknown Soldier: The Inglorious Generals

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