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...

Obama Is Wrong On Nigeria…

President Obama's administration does not have a policy on Nigeria. The only semblance of US policy toward Nigeria can be summarized as snubs and slaps and collusions with unsavory characters in Nigeria...

PDP’S Madhouse: A Sign of Hope for Nigeria

Since time immemorial, Nigerians have cried to God for vindication and intervention in the affairs of the country, and the rescue of the nation from the strong forces of opportunists called politicians...

Just how do they do it?

They tell you this all the time as a journalist in this country: “This profession is like the military. Once you are told ‘go’ you just go. Nobody cares how you do it. All that matters is that you bring the story.” I have heard such small-minded and outrightly anal lines severally...

Odili’s Influence, Amaechi’s Fear

Amaechi may be hiding under the guise of the Rule of Law to hoodwink the masses, but keen observers know that if there is any government that is corrupt in the history of the world, it is his...

Key Points for Our Acting President

The making of Goodluck Jonathan, the Acting President, is a true evidence of how Nigerians can exercise their powers. Power belongs to the people...

The Chilling Advertisement for Al-Qaeda

It was distressing that the Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab botched Christmas day bombing incident has put Nigeria too on the global terror map. But the chilling news is that to Al-Qaeda, it has spotlighted the country as a place to invest...

Is Obama Romancing Babangida?

One hopes that the Obama who went to Accra and spoke eloquently about Nigeria’s leadership crisis has not permitted himself to be led into the contradiction of prescribing IBB as the answer. Or even as a factor in finding the answer to Nigeria’s quagmire...

Jonathan’s Acting Capacity: The Constitution Aligned for Democracy!

Attempts to sustain democracy in Nigeria tend to receive threats from those who are keeping awake all-night to crunch into power by hook or crook...

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Boarding School

I didn’t like day schooling. And I wasn’t sure how things would turn out when the idea of a boarding school was broached...

Speaking Truth to Power: Giving President Yar’Adua an Opportunity to Govern in the Autumn

I see in the many government actions or inactions rarely any capacity for straightforwardness, directness or transparency.  For it appears it is congenitally incapable of being frank, clear or assertive...

Dinner with Professors

Our Universities in Nigeria do not seem to have ...

GRACE: What is it before Illuminati silence us all!

Today’s satanic concept of grace or love that says we should not say anything of sin, works of darkness, darkness of this world and the resultant eternal damnation and which is being championed by many in so-called pulpits is the number one game plan of Satan and Illuminati to kill the Church of Christ...

To Our Representatives and Other Misrepresentatives

Since 1999 when Nigeria supposedly returned to democratic rule, the representatives at all levels - federal, state, and local governments, have been more of rubber stamps in the hands of the executive arm to perpetrate their acts...

Omololu Falobi – A Hero Departs

"Bros, terrible news…Omololu ran into robbers in Lagos. Bros, the guy is dead, Bros… That was how I learnt that Omololu Falobi, pioneering journalist and activist, a human being par excellence, a devoted father, friend and brother had departed this life...

Aruma Oteh's Love For Shame

It is a known fact that Oteh was covering up her low understanding of the capital market which collapsed due to her inefficiency, combined with her financial recklessness. She shamelessly agreed to come back after the Reps had accused her of wasting public funds…spent N30m on hotel bills in 8 months…N85, 000 on meals per day...

TBJ: A Prophet and his Sex Slaves

The Nigerian Pentecostal movement is presently embattled. Its umbrella regulator, the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, an impotent outfit, cannot pretend to be unaware of the dark dealings of the human mirage of Ikotun Egbe. Nigerian pastors, ministers, reverends and priests are becoming spiritual aggressors who prey on the weak, the poor and the gullible…

Why Are Our Children Performing So Poorly In Their Exams?

Examinations no longer are a true or efficient test of an employee's or candidate's ability...and a second class upper degree can go to the highest bidder. It is possible these days to rent other people's brains to write some exams here in Nigeria...

Provincialism, Parochialism and Underdevelopment

By nature, development ‘belongs to those who know it,...