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...

Chinua Achebe: Strategizing on Nigerian politics and elections

"The Colloquium on Africa" focusing on the forthcoming elections in Nigeria summoned by the Honorable Chinua Achebe should contribute to solving the problem of voting machination in the country...

On the Throes of Another Induced Fuel Crisis

As I write this, just a few days to Christmas, Nigeria, the largest black nation on earth and the assumed African Giant is locked down by a conclave of crises, which to all intents and purposes, may take eon years to solve...

President YarAdua Is 30 Days AWOL From Presidential Duties

President Yar'Adua's absence from work, and particularly, his departure without following laid down constitutional procedure, has thrown up questions. What is the best way to resolve President Yar'Adua's  non-compliance with constitutional  stipulations?

The Identity Guard Commercial and Nigeria’s Image

What needs to be done is not the type of image laundering that is being wrongly spearheaded by our Minister of Information Professor Dora Akunyuli. The present rebranding campaign has failed and will not stem the tide of the international battering of Nigeria’s image...

A Christmas Without Mr. President

I know that most of you, except those with vested interests, worry less on the state of health of President Umar Musa Yar'adua, whose ailing conditions had put him in Nigeria's historic compendium as the first president to be away on Xmas. What does this portend for our nation, and democracy?

Ibori Post Hoc, Ergo Propter Hoc

In our very own Nigeria, in Asaba, at the recently established Federal High Court, it is a very different kind of season.  For Mr James Ibori and his fellow travellers, Christmas has come early while to many others it has soured their season...

Don’t Cry for Me, Nigeria

It must have been around 1984 that Wole Soyinka declared his generation, ‘the wasted generation’. The 1986 Nobel Laureate in literature had accused anyone who was 40 years old or over, of belonging to a generation that wasted the opportunities to take the country to greater heights...

Towards 2011: Governor Fashola Deserves a Second Term

Those who seem bent and intent on denying Fashola re-nomination also seem determined to drive a wedge between him and Alhaji Bola Tinubu in order to rupture their effective and synergetic partnership, which has been critical in the delivery of positive change to Lagos State...

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Spiritual Musings 2

A friend on Facebook freshly asked that as I profess so much that ‘love’ should be shown to all equally, whether I would give a homosexual the same quantity of reverence, kindheartedness and communal insertion that I would a hetero in Nigeria...

Despite The Supreme Court Verdict, Who Owns That Vote? Buhari! Atiku! Yar’Adua!

With its countless individual fibers of bribery, favour and nepotism, crooked politicians hijacked the government, the Yar'Adua government was the PDP party, and neither could function without the other...

As Amaechi Wins at the Supreme Court

Amaechi should not allow anybody or group to intimidate any resident of Rivers State by making the person think that he or she is a loser...

Is Jonathan Playing For Ibori?

We should insist that all traitors of the Nigerian people be held to account, in Nigeria and elsewhere. But since some Nigerian judges are blinder than bats, we ought to welcome any occasion when a foreign jurisdiction indicts a Nigerian official for breaking their money laundering laws...

Edo South Plead For Federal Government Presence

Over the years leaders of the Edo South stocks have emerged; we have Charles Idahosa, Osazee Ize-Iyamu, Prof. Edun Akenzua, as well as others too numerous to mention. These Sons and Daughters of the realm have carved a niche for themselves...

Are Coups in Africa Still Good A Thing?

Just as ECOWAS is about to send a military...

Yar’Adua’s AWOL and Ethnic Profiling

Since President Yar'Adua vamoosed from Nigeria nearly three months ago, on medical trip to Saudi Arabia, without officially notifying the National Assembly, there has been palpable anger and frustration in the land...

Will Osun Replicate Ekiti 2026?

By Kola Odepeju Two gubernatorial elections are crucial in 2026...

The Return of Mallam Nuhu Ribadu

Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, the one time strongman of the financial crime buster EFCC, who sneaked out of Nigeria into self-imposed exile some eighteen months ago in the face of apparent persecution, breezed back into the country recently, a rehabilitated man...

Sonala Strikes Sixty-Five

Friday, May 15, in this Corona-tainted year of 2020...