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...

Governor Fashola and the Nude Dancers

The recent report that the Lagos state government had shut down four strip clubs around Opebi Street and Allen Avenue in Lagos made headlines and elicited naughty guffaws from people as such stories are wont to do...

Mutallab Terrorist Incident as a Teachable Moment for Nigerians

The failed attempt by Umaru Farouk Abdul Mutallab to bomb United Airlines flight 253 out of the air and the aftermath have managed to reminde those who pretend to be temporary citizens of Nigeria that they are in fact still Nigerians...

Between Guardian Newspapers and Imo State Government: Who Is Lying?

Many Nigerians cannot forget fearless journalists like Dele Giwa who constantly asked pertinent questions in his articles, and several others, past and present, that are scattered across our media houses. The message is simple - let the truth be known...

The Core North and the Rest of Us

If  most of us want  Nigeria to be one, then there is a need for the people of the Middle Belt to be ready to take a strong, firm, and  ideological paradigm shift in their cosy relationship with the core North...

Nigeria makes US Hate List…Why?

It took just one foiled attempt by a British resident, and Yemeni trained terrorist to give the United States Transportation Security Administration the unique opportunity to show her true feelings towards Nigerians...

The Burden of Being Vice President

While Yaradua’s prolonged illness and lack of formal transfer of power to the Vice President may have brought us to the throes of a constitutional crisis, the situation more importantly calls attention to the special burden of being a Vice President...

Self-Flagellation and The Abdulmutallab Affair

The United States, Indian and Israeli top security agencies have now been fingered as conspirators in the Christmas day attempt by Umar Faruok AbdulMutallab to detonate chemical explosives aboard Delta Airlines flight 253...

That Senatorial Clowning

In a few days, we would know if the United States government will bow to the moratorium by the senate for it to de-list Nigeria as a terrorist nation or whether the senate will swallow the humble pie in a contest it is not fit and trim to provoke...

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Doing Funny Business In Jesus’ Name

I think it is such a shame that people would exploit a peoples' vulnerability and poverty of mind to use the name of God or of our messiah, Jesus Christ as a brand to lay up for themselves treasures here on earth...

It Doesn’t Take A Graduate…

Nigeria does not need someone whose orientation will be un-nationalistic, someone who will be more adherent to party constitution than the national constitution, someone with all the PhDs without a charisma for humanity...

Umaru Resign? I Don’t Zhinki So!

Inconsistency will be a recipe for disaster. Your adversaries are alarmists and carpetbaggers. They couldn’t do it when you were up. Now they want to remove the drip and turn off the monitor. How abominable. Look at them jostling and meandering, positioning and politicking...

Sharia News

From the manger of made-in-Nigeria Sharia came news a couple of weeks ago that some elites in that State have written a petition to the House of Assembly to protest the revocation of land allocated to them by the previous State government...

The Insult That Led to the Creation of Osun State

Osun State was created thirty-five years ago, but what...

The Graveyard of Ambitions

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Is Nyako in the Sambisa Forest?

It beats every sense of reasoning when a machinery of the Federal Government like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, bemused the world with the statement that the former Adamawa State Governor, Admiral Murtala Nyako has escaped from the country after he was impeached as governor...

Niger/Delta Militancy or Criminality a Genuine Cause for Agitation?

When the word militancy is mentioned in the Nigerian context, the South-South zone readily comes to mind. It has become an ineluctable attribute associated with the oil rich region and has continued unabated...

Oshiomhole: And The Ayes Have It

The way and manner the Comrade Governor, Adams Oshiomhole routed the PDP candidate in the just concluded Edo State governorship election showed that if they have a system that can be trusted to allow them make the best possible choice on who governs them, Nigerians can make a difference with democracy...

The Atiku Conundrum

That Mr Atiku Abubakar resigned from the APC a...