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...

'Witch-Ful Thinking': The National Blame Game

In Nigerian society today, we tend to take the accolades for our achievements, but finger certain forces behind our failures...

Virginia Monologues…On Niger Delta

What is wrong with you poor people? Why can’t you let us be? This country has worked, and is working well. Let us talk about tenure elongation. Furniture allowance, etc. This Niger Delta militancy is just what it has not been called: criminality!

The New Hierarchy Of Needs

Slums in Nigeria are usually identified with poverty and underemployment. Some have described a slum as an over crowded district of a community usually inhabited by poor people...

Zik, Onoh And An Elusive Anambra Gubernatorial Ambition

To many Nigerians, Zik was an enigma. Richly endowed by Deity with an array of talents, Zik could rightly be described as a man who came before his time.  To us in Lagos, Zik was one of us. He spoke Yoruba Language fluently. He was brought up in Lagos...

As The Cloud of Mischief Gathers Over Anambra…

Anyone conversant with the murky politics that Anambra State has been known for will not be surprised at the political adrenalin that has been injected into politics in that state as 2011 fast approaches...

Operation “Throw My Shoe at Nigerian Looters”

The Nigerian socio-political space is now a socio-pathological “Absurdistan”; an iniquitous amphitheatre, dedicated to the atrocious eroticization of political stupidity. This arena has degenerated into an essential arena where hopeless ignorance meets primeval greed...

Branding, Re-branding, Teleprompting and Managing Nigeria's Image or Reputation

There is raging debate between Nigerians as to whether or not Nigeria indeed requires branding or re-branding, and if so, whether such effort ought to be Nigeria's priority...

Branding, Re-branding, Teleprompting and Managing Nigeria's Image or Reputation

There is raging debate between Nigerians as to whether or not Nigeria indeed requires branding or re-branding, and if so, whether such effort ought to be Nigeria's priority...

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Upholding the Rights of the Nigerian Child: Empowering Young Girls for a Bright Future

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An Open Letter to the President of the Feudal Republic of Nigeria

Mr. President, I am not one of those beer drinking Nigerians that say your administration is the worst in the history of our nation. Far from it. You have done some things right, but you have gotten more things very wrong...

Nigerian Caesar Conquers London

Aah, It’s The Young Nigerian Boy! Memoirs by Caesar...

An Advice to The Nigerian Government and Transcorp on NITEL

Transcorp and the Federal Government should concentrate all their energy on reviving NITEL, and not wasting our money, time, energy and other resources on going into mobile telephony. Others are already doing well in that area...

Furious Passage Through West Africa

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Religion and the Oneness of God

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Peter Odili, EFCC and the war on Corruption

In recent years, many celebrated cases handled by the EFCC have suffered a natural death. For example, the cases against bank chiefs are still pending in court because EFCC prosecutors failed to prove their cases beyond reasonable doubt or in most cases fail to bring on witnesses...

Different Strokes For Unilag Dress Code

Is there anything intrinsically wrong with the manner of dress of students who live in a city such as Lagos that’s adjudged the closest to the Western world?  If there is, does the university have a regulation concerning dressing on campus?