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...

Alpha Males and Area Boys

In Nigeria, as in most other nations, the practice of our politics and its governance - since before, and ever since independence, and right through to the present time - has been an overwhelmingly male preserve and pursuit...

The Niger Delta Crisis: Nigeria Is Sitting On a Keg of Gunpowder

I would like to say that like many other Nigerians, I strongly condemn this tactics of the Nigerian Government. Niger Deltans, militant or civilians, at the last count, are Nigerian citizens, and we should tell the Yar ‘Adua Government that its action is abominable and unforgivable...

Project Nigeria: Viaticum for Polyphemus

The current condition of statehood in Nigeria calls to mind two seemingly far-flung and historically divergent analogies, one rooted in Roman Catholic rites of passage for the dying and the other lodged in the fate that awaits anybody who stands in the path of freedom and justice in Greek mythology...

Speaking Truth to Power: Mr President and the Chaos called Nigeria

Mr President, my thoughts have recently reverted back to the question of your legacy as President and the fact that there are no invisible ones.  I am inclined to ask what story would you tell your grand children?

An Open Letter to President Umaru Yar’Adua – 4

Perhaps hurt that your offer of amnesty to the Niger Delta militants was rejected, and perhaps no longer willing to accept the general atmosphere of malaise in the Niger Delta that has driven away investors from the region and made life difficult for its inhabitants, you have decided to give the green light to the Nigerian military...

Our Democracy: Our Gains and Our Pains after 10 Years

I don't like praising any administration, past or present, for any positive policy. This is because governance is all about improving people's welfare. Therefore, when governments do their work I don't praise them...

Inside the Niger Delta, Nigerians are Sacrificial Lambs!

One example of sheer lack of accountability can be seen in recent allocation of funds by this government. Regarding the funds released by the government to the Niger Delta states at various intervals for ration...

Inside the Niger Delta, Nigerians are Sacrificial Lambs!

One example of sheer lack of accountability can be seen in recent allocation of funds by this government. Regarding the funds released by the government to the Niger Delta states at various intervals for ration...

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Dame Patience Jonathan Is Our Man

There is so much talk over the political airwaves...

The British Church: Strategies for addressing the dichotomy between White and Black

This paper makes an attempt to explore solutions to some questions facing the British churches operating in a climate of different and diverse cultures?  It explores whether division into separate churches is a way forward to address the differences and diversities? 

Obama Is Not American!

There is so much idiocy going on in America these days. Racism is alive and well, but now too often wears fine clothes and expresses itself in impeccable grammar wrapped in robust syntax...

Keeping the Economy Strong

Mr. President, since your regime's tax relief took effect, increased innovation and investment has created more than 7 million new jobs, and helped boost wages. This is of course a plus to your administration's effort to streamline cost and create a workable economy...

Do You Believe in Juju?

Nigerians seem to have a two-tier belief system. On the one hand they believe in God/Allah, and attend church/mosque. Yet they still believe in the power of non-Biblical or Koranic spirits to cause harm, misfortune, death or heal sickness...

Blame! Blame! Blame! Blame Someone Else! – A Nigerian Political Pastime

Politicians, especially the Nigerian species, are an intriguing and confounding breed. I like to hope and think of them as a breed that will soon become extinct, like the dinosaurs...

Journalists on SSS radar…

Look at the predicament of the Nigerian-American columnist and professor who came home recently. The security people seized both his passports and asked him to report for an interrogation. When he showed up, the SSS made him understand that his name was on a watch list simply because the government of Umaru Yar’Adua did not like him...

Abuja Cipher and Naked Tribalism

In the Nigerian netherworld of blinkered vision, all of us look but few of us see.  Our rulers, no, Northern rulers especially, have acclimated and conditioned our flaccid reflex to accept some level of socially skewed tribalism. And because they go unchallenged, this insult morph into malignant and incurable tribal vectors threatening the very foundation and sustenance of our ongoing democratic experiment...

Dying In Public

I hereby make public the news of the private death of a private man, who discovered the cure to AIDS; in the hope that when I discover an added cure to the disease, I would make it scientifically public, so when I die I die in the public...

Inside the Niger Delta, Nigerians are Sacrificial Lambs!

One example of sheer lack of accountability can be seen in recent allocation of funds by this government. Regarding the funds released by the government to the Niger Delta states at various intervals for ration...