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...

June 12: Abiola and a Posthumous Presidency!

One year after the death of Chief Abiola, General Sanni Abacha died. Though his death was unexpected and sudden, it was a welcome relief to the people who have for several years been gagged, coerced and silenced by a regime headed by an empty headed drunk...

Yar’Adua, Borrow A Leaf From Shell

For the federal government to continue to send soldiers to the Niger Delta simply means that the real problems that Boro, Wiwa fought and died for, have never been addressed...

Freedom is Expensive

Freedom of any kind is an expensive project. It does not come easy. There is always a price to pay...

Seven Reasons Why The Niger Delta Must Be Taken Seriously

Long before the formation of the most ferocious non-state group to ever traverse the Nigerian landscape, I had penned a series of essays warning of dire consequences: unless measurable and significant actions are taken to ameliorate the sickening socio-economic and political conditions that were pervasive in the Niger Delta...

Oil Money In Nigeria’s Democracy

Despite the influx of an accumulated  $30 billion of crude revenue, the poor in Nigeria continue to languish without jobs, education, healthcare or the bare necessities of life, while the small percentage of rich mostly with their extorted money manage to get whatever luxuries they want...

Northernization

For too long now there has existed an unholy nexus between Nigerian politicians and their bureaucrats leading to favouritism, cronyism, vendetta and a “revolving door bureaucracy” syndrome...

A Decade of Democracy: The Proverbial Elephant

Various opinions have indicated what a decade of democracy in Nigeria means to diverse individuals. Like the proverbial elephant visited by some blind men, one cannot but be overwhelmed by the many-sided, manifold interpretations of 10 years of democracy in Nigeria...

Federal Character And Quota System in Nigeria – A Good Public Policy

All Nigerians should in good faith advocate that appointments and how we do business reflect our essential composite make-up as Nigerians, from local government to state and federal levels...

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Olórunsògo

Olórunsògo is the fading inscription written above the door entrance of the communal living quarters popularly called Face-Me-I-Face-You in local parlance, located at the end of Liadi Street

My Black History

It is Black History Month. I do not in anyway wish to diminish African-American black history, but I believe that somewhere in the whole mess of history, African history has somehow gotten lost…

Soyinka’s Eruption and Nigeria’s Opposition Infantilism

The insertion of certain voices of reason into public discourse usually changes not only the tone of that conversation but the direction. Professor Wole Soyinka's recent eruption, I'm afraid, has shown the persisting lack of discernment that pervades the moribund opposition movement in Nigeria...

Grandpa And The White Man

There was this crazy white man stationed in my village. Please don’t ask me what he was doing there; I don’t know and I don’t want to lie to you. All that I remember now is that he was with some oil company. He was a terror. He went round the village at odd hours with his tobacco and cigar in his mouth, spitting all over the place, insulting the elders, and swearing at us the youths...

Customs Officers No Go Die Well

Actually, I got this title from a friend whose...

What is next for Dr. Reuben Abati?

What is next for Dr Rueben Abati? Dr Reuben Abati,...

2015: Should Ndigbo Also Spit Fire?

Some persons are behaving as if they own Nigeria. They are spitting fire that Nigeria will combust if the 2015 presidential elections does not go the way they want. They have become self-acclaimed mouthpieces of their different ethnic regions...

Ibori’s London Dilemma and Uduaghan’s Asaba Ambition

Should Ibori be facing the battle of his life and Uduaghan who is already implicated in the same matter be allowed to have his usual way here on April 26, 2011 so that he can extend some dubious immunity...

Bickering over 2012 Appropriation Bill

Described as belated in certain quarters, Nigeria’s 2012 Budget proposal and the continual pervasive disputation over the touchy fuel subsidy issue and sectoral budgetary allocations in the Appropriation Bill, especially on the Security sector of the nation - have been attracting assorted comments...

Major Minority

The Hispanics are suddenly commanding more attention from businesses and politicians because they are about to eclipse the reign of the Blacks in America as the most populous minority in the US...