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...

Happy Oliver Twist Day

There is need for all to come to the roundtable and iron issues out such that a side won’t be like the big man throwing few coins at the greedy beggar who can’t help but ask for more. The reason is simple—we are all big men… or could be, if circumstances change...

Nigeria: Diminished By Greed!

To a people addicted to the tragic luxury of self-delusion, truth hurts badly. But then, truth always refuses to go away. It lingers around to perpetually taunt and haunt those that loathe and despise its face...

Ngige, Beware of dwindling popularity!

I am particularly happy with the way Anambrarians comported themselves during the election and the good organization by INEC shows that it can after all conduct credible elections, that is, if the Presidency grants INEC full independence to do their job...

Growing Up In Nigeria

To today’s Nigerian adolescent, some of the information in this article may seem like a fairy tale but it is true. But for those who were adolescents and young children then, it should kindle nostalgia...

Lack Of Human Security, A Threat To Development

Security is a very wide subject in Human Development Concept. In this write up, I will like us to look at Human Security in Nigeria as it affects Human Development, with Special emphasis on Imo State...

Jobs for the youths or fraud by another name?

This appears to be the first time, in any part of the world, where a government, at whatever level, would require candidates applying for its jobs in the public service to part with some money for its jobs...

The Political Permutations of a Somnambulist

There are Nigerians of immense faith, who believe in prayers and in miracles and in abracadabra and all that and so believe that President Yar’Adua will be back to assume the daily functions of the Presidency...

I Might Vote For IBB

As it seems, the IBB candidacy is gradually eroding us of the actual issues we are clamoring for - credible elections, true democracy, citizens' participation, accountability, infrastructural development, zero tolerance for corruption, and stability of power...

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Chinua Achebe, Obasanjo and Nigerian National Honors

Nigerian prostitutes, I am told, are worth fifty Naira per round. That’s how cheap they are. And in the last two decades or so, it’s been easier to come by a Nigerian National Honor than to procure the services of prostitutes...

Managing and implementing a successful micro financing Project in Anambra State

The government of Anambra State of Nigeria and Access Bank, a local financial institution, have recently launched a 2.5 Billion Naira microfinance project. This is good news...

One Term Southern Presidential Candidacy: A Norm?

What baffles me is that Obasanjo did not consider the way and manner he emerged as the Presidential Candidate of the PDP in his first term as unfortunate in view of its implication of generating animosity and rancor...

New electricity tariffs

It is a universal objective statement of fact that adequate electricity supply remains a major catalyst for any country’s drive towards the attainment of meaningful, sustainable socio-economic growth and development...

American Thanksgiving: A Reflection for Nigeria

"Good leaders don't care about getting credit for good...

Bode George and the Lagos show of shame

The ruling party, in an election year, chose to insult the sensibilities of Nigerians. Live on television was a thanksgiving service for a convicted thief, Bode George, who was driven straight from prison to church. Before then, thousands of PDP members waited outside Kirikiri prison in Lagos to receive Bode George...

Recurrent Jos Mayhem: Who Will Heal The Land?

Jos was once the best place to stay in Nigeria considering the heavenly weather and blissful peace that once characterized the city. However, bouts of killings, religious unrests and the likes have given Jos a new name...

International Law of Armed Conflict in a World In Crisis

In a world in which wars are now regarded as instruments of national policy, there is absolute need to set down and follow rules that regulate armed conflict...

“The Burden Of Citizenship Is On Nigerians” – Conversation with Frank Nweke, Jnr.

In my response to CNN, I did remind them that Nigerians were not the ones that ran down companies like Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Arthur Andersen and many of such failed corporations. Also Nigerians were not part of the Whitewater scandal which was perpetrated by criminally minded Americans... - The Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mr Frank Nweke

Nigeria: Campaigns of Religion and Ethnicity

Politics is the soul of leadership and the art...