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...

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?

Niger Delta: Does Yar’Adua Have a Post-Conflict Reconstruction Plan?

When it is all said and done - more so in the Niger Delta - the government has to do what, in the first instance, it failed to do: do what is right in the eyes of the oil-producing communities. Otherwise, the conflict will continue and intensify...

Nigeria’s Cult Of Corruption

Virtually every Nigerian knows and strongly believes that any day Nigeria is able to make up its mind to end its obscene and ruinous romance with the stubborn monster called “Corruption”, this country will automatically witness the kind of prosperity no one had thought was possible in these parts...

Of Air Crashes and Bank Failures!

How will you explain the bribing of a plane inspector that was reported by some of these newspapers? How else will you explain purchases of “entry” level house of N50 million? Did you just say stolen funds?

I.B.B. Should Lead This Struggle

Former Nigerian military ruler, General Ibrahim Babangida, has called for the re-introduction of Option A4 electoral system in Nigeria...

A New Vision 2020 for Nigeria at 49: Challenges and Possibilities

In order to achieve the ideals of Vision 2020, the nation as a whole needs to make a shift in mind-set and in thinking. This shift will begin at the kindergarten level. Professor Wole Soyinka reminds us that the development of human capital will be the greatest challenge facing Vision 2020...

Obasanjo is the Smartest Nigerian Politician!!!

The similarities shared by IBB and OBJ are many. Both are pests and national disasters. Where IBB consulted smooth Machiavellian amoralities, OBJ was equally Machiavellian but a bovine bully. Both of them are asses of grave eminence...

Yar’Adua’s War or Yar’Adua’s Peace?

Most Nigerians from all walks of life knows that the Yoruba, the Ogoni, as well as the Igbo and many other ethnic nationalities have issues with the country’s composition, and with how political goods and services are being shared...

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On the USA’s World’s Largest yet Consulate to be built in Lagos, Nigeria

Consider this: For the US to be building its largest...

Why Akunyili’s God Is Not God

It is bound to happen. Nigerians are experts in the art of blasphemy. At any given time, their behaviour and language are profane and sacrilegious...

Still on Tinubu, Aregbesola and Oyetola

That I hesitated to write this piece is intentional....

How To Really Get and Keep A Nigerian Man: Response to Michael Oluwagbemi

To get and keep a Nigerian man you need to more than learn how to cook. You have to bite your tongue when he criticizes a meal he does not particularly like, even though you spent hours on your feet trying to get it just right...

Economic Difficulty: Are Strangers Ruling Us?

Political, ethnic and even religious violence and to a certain extent organized crime, remain the strategic consideration and option for several relevant political gamblers in this country…

Kitchen and Bedroom Politics In the Villa

The Nigerian First Lady, Aisha Buhari, is a combination...

Race-Relations Regressing In America

O'Reilly and persons like him just make my head spin, what with the monumental ignorance that they publicly exhibit? His dumb comments encapsulate and exemplify the state of affairs in race-relations in today's America...

Barack Obama: This is Our Moment! This is our Victory!

All around the world from Asia to Europe, from the swamps in Africa to downtown in North America, the victory celebration is on. I can imagine how Africans will be twisting their hips doing the Makosa...

Anti-Christ Strategies for World Annihilation

The anti-christ is yet to manifest but his agents have been at work. The world has been grievously vexed with the devil and his human and spiritual agents...