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...

Lagos Okada Riders and Death Wish

For many Lagosians, riding daily on okada is an unavoidable part of their daily routine as only the ‘kings of the road’ have the daredevil DNA to waltz, dash, slide, ride and manoeuvre their way through the thick Lagos traffic...

Anambra and Nigeria’s burden

In eleven days – February 6 – Anambra voters will (attempt to) go to the polls to elect the state’s governor for the next four years. They have a full field of candidates to choose from, and they certainly have a hard task discerning the wheat from the chaff...

Between Democracy Development: What Gives?

In Nigeria, one with the benefit of hindsight may realize the missed opportunities in 1960, 1979, 1993 and 1999 to do the proper thing and bequeath to our country a limited but expandable form of democracy...

The Terror Watchlist: Nigeria’s Response

When America and the West fail to get their acts together, it is a systemic failure. When a man reports his son to the US security to be on the lookout for him and the US fails to act appropriately, his country is named a terrorist nation...

Mutallab: A tragic Example of Poor Parenting

Sending young people barely old enough to tie their shoe laces away from home to an alien culture and strange environment where they are opened to all forms of associations and manipulations can have deadly consequences...

Is Nigeria a Terrorist Haven? Part 2

The presence of Cuba and Nigeria on the List demonstrates that the U.S. has used the Mutallab affair as a pretext to get even with countries that it has long standing historical grievances against...

Yar’dua’s Absence: Tales from the Street

The docility of Nigerians to the affairs of this country and the President continued absence explains why information managers in Abuja can continue to spin webs upon webs of lies to cover up what should be in the public domain...

Another Carnage In Jos!

Badly planned, poorly conducted military operations are also responsible for the rise of religious crisis in the middle belt, where the loss of lives and property and displacement of thousands of civilians have alienated the population...

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2027 or Never: Can Nigerians Finally Break the Curse of Power Recycling?

In Nigeria, democracy remains a dream deferred. While constitutions...

For Brothers Only: I Have A Craving…

In all my brief travels to the cities of the world, particularly in Europe, and residence in North America, one prominent craving that swells through my inside and saturates my soul is a craving for the African woman...

The Nigerian Factor

By the formula of wear and tear, by the coefficients of nature and universality, all things can't be equal...

Surprise is the Shot of Peter Obi

The greatest surprise of the political season in Nigeria...

Doctored certificates: The undervalue of Education In Nigeria!

In Lagos, the issue of fake graduation degrees of various law-makers has suddenly popped up. With the passage of every day, the issue is expanding like a catastrophic tornado...

The Rapture 7: The Manner of the Catching away

Now we come to the rapture properly. The catching away of the saints by Jesus Christ, the Lord of hosts, is the most joyous and glorious event to some on this side of eternity just as it will be the most startling and unsettling event for those to be left behind...

The Writer and the Global Frontier

A lot of us will never live fully in Africa again. Many people in my daughter’s generation will probably grow up with only the idea of Africa...

How Did Amaechi ‘Shun’ The PDP Governors’ Forum?

Have Nigerians become depressed and feeble human beings who are out of touch with reality because of politics?

Republican Party Infighting Deepens

Tea Party fringes of the Republican Party have now won elections in Alaska, Delaware, Massachusetts, New York, etc. The ultra right conservatives in the Republican Party are pressuring and pushing the party into a corner!

Election Rigging And Other Atrocities: Obasanjo Is NOT Guilty.

Obasanjo has decided to turn the country upside down for being denied the opportunity to rule us till death. He has decided to get his revenge for not being allowed to own and run Nigeria like his private property...