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...

Nigeria Needs Unity!

The historical development of nation states have proved that we can not develop as a nation unless we condition ourselves to be able to engage each other in a more civilized and logical manner...

Ekiti knows the President’s Promise of Electoral Reform Sounds Hollow

If the number of elections held in 2003 that has been asked to be redone is anything to go by, Maurice Iwu and his INEC are failures...

Ekiti Crisis: An Insight to 2011 Elections

For Gods sake, we do not need Angels to tell us that the solution to our electoral problems is the re-introduction of Option A4. This is a tested and trusted method...

Where Have We Gone Wrong?

One finds it befuddling that our fathers who supposedly lived in the Dark Age are surprisingly healthier and seem to have a better shot at longevity despite our claims to better ways of living and doing things...

700 Days in Office: “Wetin Gov. Fashola Dey Do Self?”

Majority of the people do not see government property as theirs. Otherwise why will people willfully damage public property so callously? They do not even know that these are procured with taxes collected from them...

Odyssey Of An Unworkable Budget

Days before President Umaru Yar’Adua literally wept openly over alleged bastardisation of the 2009 Budget by the National Assembly, indications were rife that the visibly discontented President would head to the Supreme Court...

Dear President Umaru Yar’Adua 3

Mr. President, the presidency of any country, even the smallest country on the face of the earth, is an office that very few souls ever attain and one that confers on its holder a monumental privilege to build or to destroy, to heal or to wound...

The Nigeria of Our Dream

At the moment, Nigeria is a stout source of credit to many countries including the US, UK, South Africa and Australia. What is more, the Nigerian Naira has attained a world currency status seconded by the Chinese yuan and the US dollar...

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For John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo: Triumphing Over an Imaginary Tragedy

If the aim of the book was to diminish Clark, Maja-Pearce misses the mark terribly. The reader actually comes away empathizing with Clark at the end of the book. And it was not for lack of Maja-Pearce trying. He expends extraordinary energy toward diminishing the man...

The Roar of A Lame Lion (1)

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It flourishes because all the survival indices have been submerged in the cesspool of rapacious government fiefdom, and lofty but shoddily implemented policies...

What Will You Do Or Say?

You've been passing yourself of as an intellectual busybody, venturing opinion on this and that, and on matters that sometimes do not concern you. You rub politicians' noses with your satire and hope to get away with it.  And then out of the blues, CNN invites you to come and discuss the matter...

Not In Our Character?

The late General Sani Abacha was one bloody former...

Obasanjo: Between Image And Reality

It is sad that as Obasanjo prepares to quit power in a week's time, feelings of disappointment, if not betrayal, tend to eclipse what ought to be Nigeria's day in the sun...

Team Nigeria: A Perspective

Events of the recent past, have demonstrated the immutable fact that Nigerians need national unity, and for that purpose, Nigerians urgently must jettison petty family squabbles...

Who Voted For Muhammadu Buhari?

Voting on March 28, 2015 for the then presidential...

Karma of Justice on Crass Impunity

The Karma of justice has taken up permanent residence...

Depoliticizing The Zero Tolerance For Corruption

What accounts for the rampant corruption in the country? To understand the existence of this difficult and complex social canker, we must examine its historical character...

This Coalition Isn’t a Fairytale — It’s a Necessary Evil!

Let’s drop the sugarcoating and call this moment for...