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...

Is Goodluck Jonathan Sincere Enough?

Dr. Jonathan has been given the opportunity by Nigerians and a coalition of civil society group to write his name in gold. He should not allow the enemies of Nigeria to tarnish his image and reputation...

State of the Nation and a Credible 2011 Elections: Matters Arising

In a recent interview which Goodluck Jonathan granted the Cable News Network, he confirmed the much speculated news that he might be heading for the running mate’s ticket of the presidential ticket bearer of the PDP...

State of the Nation and a Credible 2011 Elections: Matters Arising

In a recent interview which Goodluck Jonathan granted the Cable News Network, he confirmed the much speculated news that he might be heading for the running mate’s ticket of the presidential ticket bearer of the PDP...

Ibori, Peter Odili, and Justice Buba

Several newspapers and online forums reported that Justice I.N. Buba of the Federal High Court in Asaba had issued an injunction prohibiting Ibori’s arrest. Buba has done it before...

Ikwerres and Their Denial of Igbo Identity

It amuses me when indigenes of Igbo-speaking communities outside the South-East deny their Igbo identity. The Ikwerres, represented by the likes of Okachikwu Dibia, are the fiercest and most strident in this act of playing the ostrich...

Goodluck Jonathan: The Domestic and Global Implications of His US Visit

For the first time in many years, it seems as though the Nigerian community had a reason to be happy, to celebrate and to reaffirm their Nigerianness. For the first time in many years, it was nice being a Nigerian again...

Native But Naturalized Nigerians: Bothering or a Burden?

Being a Nigerian is something that we need to value more than ever. But we have always placed humankind above homeland. We are internationalists, first and foremost, without ceasing to be patriots...

Deliver Us From IBB, Oh Lord!

It is expediently imperative that every well intentioned Nigerian should cry to God to deliver us from the impending danger of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida’s second coming...

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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...

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...

Celtel’s indiscretion with language

What Celtel as a new player in the Nigerian telecoms industry is doing today is ignore one of the most powerful structures in English syntax, the simple sentence, to appeal either to our sense of values or to our base emotions...

Oyebanji: The countdown starts!

At exactly 1:34 pm on Friday, October 16, 2026,...

On Becoming a Pastor: My Journey So Far

Just this morning I was informed that no pastor works alone. I was told that it is a cooperative effort between the men of God and other men of gods, i.e. the juju and medicine man...

Only A Short Walk…

In London, when a helpful old English woman says “It’s ten minutes walk”, put on your jogging shoes…

The God of Obasanjo and Fani-Kayode Versus God of Nigeria

In this article, I shall attempt to add my voice to his patriotic vociferation and make my own dialectic analysis on Femi Fani-Kayode, President Obasanjo and the God both of them claim to serve...

Lost but not found: Where is Yaya Bello?

By Promise Adiele I nostalgically remember a popular refrain in...

Is religion good for the next generation?

A young lady once told me she had not gone home for 10 years because her pastor accused her of witchcraft and her family threatened to kill her...

An Open Letter to the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars inflicted by their own sons...