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...

From Yahoo Yahoo to Yahoo Plus

Nigeria’s social dilemma is money. We ruminate endlessly on how, when and where to get it. We place far more value on material success than cultural and human values...

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...

President Shehu Yar'Adua: Matters Arising

Politics apart, President Shehu Yar'Adua deserves our empathy and prayer at this crucial time of his life in the spirit of brotherhood and nation building...

A Nation in Coma: Beyond Constitutional Provisions

Nigeria is once again at one of those junctures where tripping over the precipice cannot be ruled out. At issue is the President’s serious illness, and increasing calls by some Nigerians for him to hand over the reins of government...

The Nation Dangles as Yar'Adua Pines Away

A sneak preview of the fiery war that awaits us in the aftermath of Yar'Adua's complicated health state is the internecine power struggle that has started and which threatens to blow into a full fledged war should the president cease to function in power...

President Yar'Adua Should Not Resign, But Obey the Constitution Instead

What exactly is at stake in the face of President Yar'Adua's frequent hospitalizations and absence from the presidency? It is rather simple. The issue is President Yar'Adua's violation or willful and complete disregard for section 145 of the constitution of Nigeria...

Re-Branding Nigeria: The Place of Peace

In Sub-Saharan Africa, the death toll from armed-conflicts stands at an alarming 9.2 million within the last ten years, which is equivalent to the population of either London, Central African Republic, Yokohama, Uruguay or Sydney to mention a few...

In Sickness in Health: A President, a Nation a Constitution

It is no secret that the president of our federal republic currently endures a difficult personal trial of his own in the form of a severe body ailment. The treatment of which, has often necessitated his hospitalisation abroad...

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Liberty, G8 and Poverty

The West has an obligation to help Africa because in 1884 the West officially caused the initial African mess: Currently, in the world economy, a chain is as strong as its weakest link...

Trump Wakes Nigeria: Nigeria Remains Awake

J. P. Clark’s poem "Night Rain" recounts the hardships...

The Revolt of Mandela’s Grandchildren

South Africa is in the midst—some would say the...

Ogboru: Uduaghan’s Rejoinder and Grammar

It is no longer news that my piece “Take a Trip to the Three Warri LGAs” published in the Vanguard of Tuesday February 7, 2010 has attracted a balderdash full-page rejoinder from Emmanuel Uduaghan and his Consultant...

Minna Sanhedrin and More Pertinent Issues

The symbolic event of Friday, May 11, 2017, had...

The Death of Nigerian Sports and A Walk Down Memory Lane (1)

I would like to take my fellow countrymen and women down memory lane with some facts about sports in Nigeria not too long ago; and maybe we will wake up to how desperate our sports situation is. It made me proud and cry at the same time...

Implications of Bad Leadership and the Collapse of Global Oil on Nigeria’s Economy

Since the discovery of oil in the South-South region...

Rejoinder to: Maurice Iwu and the Sale of Nigeria's Collective Inheritance

As you are well aware many things have been written about me in both local and international press as part of an elaborate hate campaign, most of which are sponsored falsehood aimed at destroying my reputation...

Buhari’s Major War

That the tasks before the incoming administration arrow headed...

Abia: A Time Of Universal Pretense

Telling the truth is not always easy in a land that is characterised by untrustworthiness; therefore truth becomes an art of rebellion or opposition in the eyes of men and women whose only trade in stock is betrayal...