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...

Rufai and Ribadu Denied Passport Renewals…

Should a citizen disregard the constitution and laws of his country, while at the same time seeking rights and protection under such constitution and laws?

Timipre Sylva: A Governor, His State and His People

It is generally assumed that however goes Bayelsa, so goes events in most other Ijaw communities and commune across the country. Because of this and other factors, the state has been under political and security microscope since its beginning in 1996...

A story of Poverty

When poverty is a game, one where you're trapped in an endless maze of beginnings and descent into an abyss of delusion, you wonder if anything will ever change, and stop wondering when it never does...

An Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua – 5

A coterie of the ruling elite, surprisingly not just in the North, where the Bala Na'Allahs were calling for a Final Solution, but elsewhere, talked about the fire and brimstone that the central government would unleash on the Niger Delta if the fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta do not accept the amnesty...

An Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua – 5

A coterie of the ruling elite, surprisingly not just in the North, where the Bala Na'Allahs were calling for a Final Solution, but elsewhere, talked about the fire and brimstone that the central government would unleash on the Niger Delta if the fighters of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta do not accept the amnesty...

Wetin You Carry! A Therapeutic Metaphor?

Wetin you carry is a metaphor. It is the shame of a continent. A nation of 155 million people. An unfulfilled promise. Totally inept, uninteresting, visionless, violent and lacking character. Equally depressing, because she will be 50 years old next year...

Our Resources

The questions of our abundant human and natural resources are no longer in doubt. What is in doubt is how to harness these potentials for the greatness of our people, and the development of the country and the continent at large...

Branding: A Prerequisite for Successful Outcomes for Persons, Companies and Nations

Why do most people on earth refer to every photocopying machine as a Xerox? Why do we refer to every internet search effort as Google it? Why is every detergent in Nigeria called OMO?

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My Name Is Mallam Boko Haram!

My name is Mallam Boko Haram and I am proud to so introduce myself. I am the public enemy number one of the confused federal government of Nigeria. But I am still holding out, outsmarting the security armada unleashed on me...

The Religion of Zero Benefit

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Dying For Nothing in Nigeria

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When someone says, “Even America has election glitches,” they’re...

The Messy State of the Nigerian Judiciary

As flawed as successive Nigerian Constitutions have been, it has always, in theory at least, provided for an independent judiciary. In practice, however, this has not always been the case...

Akin Ogunbiyi: 64 years of quiet conviction

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The Future is Orange

As the six authors posed for photographs holding their books, the magnitude of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's achievement struck me. She looked almost incongruous, out of place - this young black woman in the line up of largely white middle-aged women...

That $90 Billion Hajj Subsidy

Let’s get serious for once in this country. The government...