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...

Democracy Anniversary: An Inconvenient Truth.

Nothing is wrong in celebrating achievements or accomplishments. It is either a way to appreciate God or celebrate self. But what is being celebrated must be a prelate that is worthy of exhibition or emulation...

Those Hausa People! Those Igbo People Those Yoruba People!

They are the worst people in Nigeria. They are responsible for all of Nigeria's sundry economic, political and social ills and plethora of malaise! Those people! Not us! None of them from our backyards! None!

Those Hausa People! Those Igbo People Those Yoruba People!

They are the worst people in Nigeria. They are responsible for all of Nigeria's sundry economic, political and social ills and plethora of malaise! Those people! Not us! None of them from our backyards! None!

Successful Nigeria: A Government Order or Citizens’ Bother?

Nigeria has a particular problem with fraud in the area of procurement. In Nigeria, procurement personnel are, generally speaking, not very well paid, yet they operate independently, are responsible for spending large amounts of money...

Seasons of Settlements

Going by the conciliatory outcomes of this week, perhaps, before the week is out, Governor Oyinlola well set plans afoot to reconcile the Abiolas and the Abachas; the Ooni of Ife and the Alafin of Oyo; PDP and AC; Christians and Moslems; North and South...

Reminiscences of Nigeria

I cry for the current generation of Nigerian students. They are studying under very hard conditions. So it is disheartening to hear that Nigerians are now sending their children to Universities in Ghana to get a better education. I remember that our universities in Nigeria used to attract hundreds of foreign students...

Nigeria, Nigerians and the Scam E-mails

People in the West are greedy and blinded by the prospect of easy money; and this explains why they fall easy prey to fraudsters. Why don’t other Nigerians fall for them?

Referendums and Metaphors on Nigeria?

Why are some Nigerians at some sort of permanent loggerheads with fellow Nigerians, and yet, these same Nigerians seem to hold on, tenaciously to every whimper about Nigeria by some nitwit foreigner?

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The Obasanjo Obituary That Never Was

The rumour mill was agog earlier this week with the presumed assassination of the 'emperor' in Ota, former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo was quick to dispel the rumour proclaiming in his usual dry humour that I deh kampe...

Travel and Black Identity: Location, location, location

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ECOWAS: A house of castrated leaders – how are the mighty fallen!

Regrettably, African leaders of today are still backward and blind to the economic misfire of the West and their Asian Marauders. Old age has eaten deep into the emancipatory consciousness of these leaders, and they have been crippled by the unreasonable aid of the West, through IMF and their Imperialist collaborators...

Niger Delta Avengers: Avenge me not!

Wanton destruction of lives and properties is now a...

Making Esan Agenda Fly

There is every indication that the unguarded spirited moves...

Further Discussions on the Future of Africa (3)

The Seminar condemned the rising tide of racial abuse of Africans, who play professional football in Europe. The Seminar held that any racist postulations that are degrading  and inhuman  are  retrogressive steps  in human relations...

How Alamieyeseigha Embarrassed the Ijaw Nation

Alams did not live on the streets or in a shelter before becoming governor. He owned a couple of houses. But in the short time since he took over the mantle of governance in Bayelsa, Alams bought the Chelsea Hotel in Abuja...

A Governor’s Credentials as Serial Wrecker

The month of May ended without any credit alerts...

Before Nwodo Commits Suicide!

As Nwodo has publicly declared his intention to lay down his precious life so that Nigerians can enjoy the dividends of democracy that has eluded us ever since the PDP came into our lives he will definitely be a hero in the event that we see changes...

The 2011 London Conference on Libya: The International Community, minus Africa, Asia and Latin America

In the Era of the Gentiles, there will be attempts to attack the principle of order and intelligibility in the world. International relations will be subjected to universal unreason in order to distort human destiny...