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...

This Government Is Pointless!

The advancement of Nigeria and the success of its government will remain a mere dream unless everyone put the national agenda or interest over personal ones. Are the people who run this government so insecure in their sense of power that they have to go around picking on the least fortunate in our society?

U.S Foreign Policy and the Niger Delta Conflict

A critical examination of America’s foreign policy in the last two decades proves she is concerned with environment issues and with matters dealing with social dislocations, international health challenges and uncontrollable migration that are likely to constrict its resources...

Deportations of Nigerian Citizens by Governments Foreign and Domestic

Recently, I became aware of the kidnapping, bundling and dumping of Nigerian citizens who are afflicted with one disability or the other, including destitution and abject poverty. Nigerian citizens with disabilities who resort to meager subsistence through requests for alms or street begging...

Mail from Jail (2)

Often, we all talk about scam as it concerns basically what we have come to term ‘yahoo yahoo'. Only on few occasions do we make reference to the scam that is perpetrated by corporate bodies...

All Eyes on the Judiciary in Ekiti

With the salacious details of what happened in Ekiti in April 2009, when the shambolic re-run polls happened thumbing in at the state election tribunal headed by Justice , there is every need for the guilty to be afraid that the end of another impostor is near...

Can the National Assembly save Abuja?

We must be able to say it straightaway that these people resemble carpetbaggers than anything else. And rather than think this is an irresponsible or cheap shot at the honourables, we must be able to expatiate.  Think back at the several times when the National Assembly has insisted that it must be ‘carried along’, in the execution of certain brilliant ideas and innovations that do not emanate from the hallowed chambers of the legislative bodies...

The Niger Delta: The Impending Military Assault

Historically, citizens of the Niger Delta have been a thorn on the flesh of pre and post-colonial Nigerian governments. Not a people to suffer injustice in silence, they have a history of political activism that dates back to the 18th century...

Farewell Chief Gani Fawehinmi: Champion of the Masses

I felt a strong urge to step outdoors to espy the night skies, in the fervent, but furtive hope of catching a glimpse - however fleeting - of the ascent in celestial skies of that great soul which for 71 years animated and embodied the flesh of the man we came to know, admire, and respect as Chief Gani Fawehinmi....

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Beyond the Policing Abracadabra

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Road Maintenance: Government Task Or Citizens' Tax?

The recent proposed 5% user tax on petroleum products as a means of sourcing funds for sustained road maintenance activities in the country deserves second thought...

What Is Right With Nigeria

Before military manners destroyed the civic and humanitarian disposition of Nigerians, we were very humane and caring people. Our neighbours were part of family...

The Day Fugar Stood Still for Prof. Eshiemokhai

Recently, Fugar Community stood still for Professor Emmanuel Omoh Eshiemokhai to hear the news he had to break. Prior to this, there was ongoing information that a University was proposed for Fugar...

Democracy, Deep Pockets and their Ramifications

Being a former British Colony, Nigeria had the political...

Nigeria Must Go

You Nigerians are funny, so because oil has been discovered in Ghana, that is why you are rejoicing and getting ready to go to another man’s country...

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...

Commander-in-Chief Flex Your Muscles

The president as high representative of the people must begin to adopt a posture of power and authority and project an image of strength and confidence to inspire the people. He must demonstrate the fact that he is not only in command of his brief, but also of his territory...

Abia abandons PDP for Progressive Peoples' Alliance

Everybody is crying in Abia State, except those cronies of the governor in government and those by the side who have ways of benefiting from the government...