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...

Of Death, Rumours, Curses and Superstitions

In Nigeria, we have had quite a few high -profile cases of false death rumours: Nnamdi Azikiwe, the First President of Nigeria was declared dead by Nigerian newspapers years before he actually died...

Nigeria By Kidnappers’ Den!

It is no coincidence that courses on how to react in hostage-taking situations teach participants to show pictures of their spouses and children so that an emotional bond can be created with their captors...

Abuja Cipher and Naked Tribalism

In the Nigerian netherworld of blinkered vision, all of us look but few of us see.  Our rulers, no, Northern rulers especially, have acclimated and conditioned our flaccid reflex to accept some level of socially skewed tribalism. And because they go unchallenged, this insult morph into malignant and incurable tribal vectors threatening the very foundation and sustenance of our ongoing democratic experiment...

Angst of a Generation in Transit: I Remember

I belong to a generation of Nigerians I would like to refer to as ‘transitional’. We were birthed at the threshold of a country’s descent from the sturdy, high grounds of magnificence as it began another into the peaty waters of obscurity...

Exchange Programmes

It should be an unpatriotic act to have your children studying abroad while you're holding a government position. Nigerians should take this matter to the National Assembly and all states Houses of Assembly...

Understanding Tinubu Fashola's Secret

Fashola’s leadership example has proved Tinubu’s critics and detractors wrong. What we see in Lagos State today is a beehive of democratic norms, and I stand to say that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu is the leader of leaders...

Legacy of Pains

Policies such as quota system and federal character were politically imbued to accommodate mediocrity and tolerate indolence. Politicians sort political office to benefit themselves as opposed to improve the lots of the electorates...

The Nigerian Market Place

I recently watched an American football game in a large stadium filled with sport loving Americans. The excitement and passion I saw on everyone’s face strained me in trying to understand the game. The referee blew his whistle almost every 10 seconds...

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Ibori – Divine Retribution And Punishment For Hubris

Over the decades - and these are many decades - opportunities to progress, develop and turn Nigeria into one of the world’s most developed countries were, and are still being, frittered away and lost by clueless, insensitive, greedy, selfish, insidious, invidious, conscienceless and murderous rulers...

A Dream Sculpted From The Pulpit

Has Reverend Okotie demonstrated his possession of a political soul?

Death, the leveller of men!

In recent times, we've seen the transition of the...

Life In America: San Ysidro Windsong

My friend, the blonde one teases me about carrying my passport. She doesn't have to worry, she is a pretty blonde American, she will travel the world naked and American marines will die defending her right to be naked. I am a different issue altogether. I am American on paper. And I am black.

Nigerians’ Entitlement Mentality and Sense of Belonging

Jean-Pierre Legros, Author of "Diversium", an interdisciplinary theory of...

Poverty and Infertility in Africa: Medical Evidence versus Divine Providence

The fertility conundrum is not totally against the rich. It’s been documented that they have easier access to fertility experts to sort out what the problem really is. While most poor couples beseech churches, mosques and traditional healing homes in search of the fruit of the womb...

The Banana Skins Called Ibori, Etteh And Odili

The problem is not so much that the government is winning the war against corruption, but the impression that the war itself is not being fought with sincerity of purpose, the right tools and resources or seriousness...

IBB, New UN Secretary-General

I see IBB as a man with a lot of self respect.  I suppose most Nigerians do too especially when we consider the fact that ‘little children’ like Nasir El-Rufai and Ribadu, who served in the Obasanjo government as FCT Minister and EFCC Chairman are also contesting with an agbalagba like him to be president...

Of Chicago and Ibadan: People and Places

There are interesting coincidences between Chicago in the U.S. and...