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...

Decongesting Nigerian Cities: Stemming Rural-Urban Drift in Today’s Nigeria

It is mostly in Lagos and other big cities in Nigeria that one can find an able-bodied, well-fed beggar, who can see, hear and speak, is not in anyway physically challenged, and is straight-faced about his lazy means of livelihood...

Pastor Tunde Bakare

I believe in one Nigeria where there is justice, equity, fairness and good governance. I also believe there could be unity in diversity. With togetherness and determination we can achieve a lot in saving Nigeria...

The Return Of The Living Dead

On Wednesday, the 24th of February 2010, around 2 a.m, when decent and hardworking Nigerians were snoring and sweating on their beds with mosquitoes playing hide and seek in their ears, somebody was smuggled into the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport under the cover of darkness...

The Rise and Fall of Our Motherland

The problem with Nigeria is not only the complete ineptitude of our elected leaders, their wanton and wilful refusal to abide by the Rule of Law or the fact that we now operate a four tier system of government, the fourth being corruption...

Democracy Is Not a Spectator Sport or a Siddon Look Matter

Any true democracy and constitutionalism is maintained through active involvement, engagement and participation by the electorate and the citizenry...

Yar’Adua versus “motor park” touts

A friend of mine, an American who has studied and taught in Nigeria, sent me a terse e-mail yesterday. It read: “The ‘president’ of Nigeria is a perfect icon for the country: prostrate in intensive care and held hostage by a secretive, greedy clique!”

Prayers For President Yar’Adua

In spite of our political, religious and ethnic frictions, no Nigerian will celebrate the president’s ill-health. From the Creeks of the Niger Delta to the cascading hills of Plateau State and the flat lands of Sokoto and Maiduguri, no Nigerian will make a toast to the infirmity of the President...

We must stop insulting Niger Deltans

By this piece, I wish to recommend to anyone who is not familiar with the Niger Delta to be a little more circumspect in discourse related to determination of issues that affect that hapless region...

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The Shame Of A Nation

There are professors and there are ‘professors’. Can some one please tell me what Maurice Iwu is still professing at the INEC? I am really shocked by this man’s vaulting ambition…

The New Face of Garri

Any time that James Akpanudoh has his favourite meal of Eba, gari soaked in hot water, particularly in the evenings, he found out that his whole system shut down...

Igbo Presidency: Orji Uzor Kalu’s love for Ndigbo and the Unity of Nigeria

The absence of love is the cause of many problems that are associated with the world today. Inter alia, lack of love is the cause of disunity among peoples. But if there is any man who is cosseted to love, that man is Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu...

This Government Is Throwing Up Stones!

Nigeria's long suffering people are all too frequently caught in the crossfire of rampaging wars, millions afflicted with diseases, preyed upon by greedy despots and prevented by corrupt leaders and bureaucracies in a kleptocracy from obtaining basic schooling, medical attention, and any semblance of economic opportunities...

Biafra Is Dead, Buried And No More!

The time has come to speak up, time for those of us who believe in one indivisible Nigeria as sacrosanct, time for us to raise awareness and perhaps raise alarm as well, regarding the increasing specter of the spread of the phantom excitement thing that is the so-called Biafra!

Lessons and reflections on Rome

Just some few days ago, the Italian political capital, Rome, once again became capital of world for those obsessed or even merely interested in world politics. The occasion, for the very few that may have missed it, was the fall of the Silvio Berlusconi government...

Why I’ll Sue My Mother

My ninety-year-old mother has damaged my pristine image, and...

African Writers Gather in London

“I can’t write about Princess Diana, as I never met her or moved in those circles. I write about university graduates working as cab drivers and issues like that”

Emperor Ajimobi and Mujaheed Aregbesola

One Governor rules his State like the Greek King...

How To Find, Marry And Adapt Your Expectations Of What A Good African Wife Is

I don tire for all these my African brothers sef! Good African women abound. They are plentiful, and simply waiting to be taken. My friend Victor has convinced me.