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...

Yar’Adua to live forever; Nigeria may die

Many of us following the argument that a comatose Umaru Yar’Adua is fit to run Nigeria must have a sense of déjà vu. Nigeria is not the only country that falls into the hands of inept, clueless leadership...

Gen Obasanjo: Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word

In his mental universe, it appears Obasanjo sees himself as the nation’s pre-eminent statesman. But for such a mental outlook to have any basis in reality, one of such status should be possessed of humility and be in good standing with his people...

Impeach President Umaru Yar’Adua of Nigeria Now!

President Yar'Adua has engaged in gross misconduct and impeachable offense of the most egregious type and nature. President Yar'Adua has embarrassed and shamed the Nigerian nation long enough...

Ending the scourge of poverty in Nigeria

One is saddened by the current constitutional impasse occasioned by the lingering ill-health of President Yar’adua and the spiralling effects of this on the entrenchment of good governance and the eradication of poverty in Nigeria...

War against Electoral Fraud in Anambra and Nigeria

Nigerians should closely watch what will happen in the Anambra election on February 6. Whatever happens in Anambra will further confirm what Nigerians will face in 2011 general election...

Anambra State Governorship Election: Shenanigans, Ramblings and Pandemonium

Anambra State needs and deserves a governor and leadership that will transform the wasteland of poverty, ignorance and corruption into a stable and fulfilling society...

Rear Admiral Arogundade: Before You Raise The Koboko

If there was ever any cincher that social conditioning, apathy and adaptation have sealed our faith, it is in our inclination towards jurisdiction. It is as predictable as our society is stagnant...

Nigeria: Those Military Coup Rumours

There has been no military coup in Nigeria for over 16 years. That is the longest period of time in Nigeria’s history without a military coup. But some troubling noises have been heard lately...

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The Canards of Continuity and Change

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Barack Obama and New American Diplomacy (3)

Obama's linking the slave trade experience with the holocaust, was inappropriate. The death of six million Jews was deplorable, but words cannot describe a horrendous trans-Atlantic movement of human beings for over many centuries!

Ohakim’s Nsiko Mentality Theory And Ndigbo

Ohakim has a message for Ndigbo; don’t continue dwelling in self-pity, stop lamenting the tragedies of the civil war because the civil war is over, stop blaming others for your woes, work to attain whatever you want to attain...

Is Governor Peter Obi's APGA losing grip of Anambra State?

APGA's poor showing on the recent Nigerian elections may be due lack of strategic planning and absence of Dim Ikemba Ojukwu...

The Retired Ambassador Peter Anegbeh’s Inaugural Diplomatic Coup d’état Speech: A Rejoinder (3)

Despite the fact that the diplomatic coup d'état staged by the retired Nigeria High Commissioner to Malaysia, Mr. Peter Anegbeh, to oust the out-going leadership of NIDO-MY and usurp its leadership was considered foiled,  Mr. Anegbeh and his cohorts re-grouped and went ahead to conduct an unauthorized Annual General Meeting...

Time to Rethink Nigeria

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Terror, Terrorists And Terrorism

It should be noted that in the modern era, the United States “invented” terrorism just that it preferred to name her actions “Covert Operations”

Greece -v- Nigeria in Bloemfontein – A Tale of Two Average Teams

Stop whining about vuvuzelas everyone. In the stadium the noise is not so bad. It is only when little kids blow them in your ear at shops, restaurants and airports that it gets annoying. For years people have played drums, guitars and trumpets at stadiums, thrown toilet roll, bananas, beer, human excreta and coins, yet vuvuzelas are suddenly public enemy number one?