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...

The late Lamido and my father

With the death on March 13 of Aliyu Musdafa, the 11th Lamido of Adamawa, Nigeria strikes me as a slightly dimmer space. The death of this extraordinary Nigerian touched me – and my mother as well as four siblings – in a deeply personal way...

Jos: A Repeat of Rwanda?

The United Nations, international community and the International Criminal Court (ICC) must know that Nigeria is in the midst of genocide in the proportions of Rwanda in 1994...

Death In The Force: What Is Killing Our Officers?

The challenges facing an average Nigerian police officer is enormous. In addition to collective problems, he or she is expected to stop bullets with nothing but tattered uniforms...

National Security In Nigeria

We are a nation where the rich incessantly engage in gaieties and social festivities. These stoke the envy of the underprivileged, who occasionally visit their abject frustrations on civil society, especially the underprivileged like themselves...

Abdul Mutallab: The Pains and Gains of Nigerian Moslems

Nigeria’s history has shown that the nation’s government and security outfits are extremely incapacitated and evidently unable to control, contain, contend with and checkmate sectarian and religious violence...

The Men and Women of the Nigerian Police Force

In the history of contemporary Nigeria, except for the Nigerian Customs Service, I wonder if there ever has been a government agency as reviled and ridiculed as the Nigerian Police Force...

Critical Issues From Ekiti Tribunal

Fayemi's long wait for what belongs to him will soon be over, if the proceedings from the Ekiti tribunal is to be taken into consideration...

Gaddafi has the right to offend me

By now many of those with their ears to the ground will have heard this song: Divide Nigeria in two, according to religious lines. This statement was Mr Gaddafi's recent unsolicited solution to conflicts in Nigeria...

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Federal Government Cheating States with Deregulation

Nigeria may not get it right with a perfidious system. Somebody would say that change is one thing that remains permanent. Yes, but only when it is positive and does not habour underhanded tendencies, such as the country is experiencing through deregulation...

The Righteousness of Adultery and Fornication

Africans are perhaps the most conservative and prudish when it comes to sex and sexual varieties because the African culture, religion and sensibility forbid a lot of practices...

Between Majority Tyranny, Democratic Space and PDP’s Zoning

A liberal democracy is an embodiment of a gamut of civic rights and individual liberties geared towards preventing it from degenerating into a tyranny of the majority.  The extent to which these liberties are guaranteed and the degree to which they are protected differ from one democracy to another...

The PDP Mass Exodus and the Coming Implosion of the APC

The discordant tunes in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party,...

Pathways to Ecosystem Restoration in Nigeria

By Prof Gideon Emelue   Ecosystem refers to a dynamic relationship...

Doctors: Nigerians In America’s Most Sought After Single Species?

Doctors are Nigerians In America's most eligible and sought after species. All the girls want to marry them and all the guys want to be them...

“Buhari too dey Shame! But im Belle no gree am”

I told you guys that Nigeria is a neo-colony...

Notes on 2011 Presidential Debate

The recently concluded presidential debate has taken discussions about the forth-coming general elections in Nigeria to a different and interesting dimension. Overall, the event was well organised, well attended and more importantly very well followed and now widely discussed...

There Is No Business Like Show Business

Conversations With Showbiz Stars by Azuh Arinze; YES International...

US To Export Oil: Nigeria loses revenue and market by 2014

Even with the myriad sources of oil supply to America, it has not abandoned oil drilling and exploration within continental America. It is a goal and principal task among oil explorers in the United States to make a quantifiable difference in supply of energy for internal consumption...