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...

Remembering General Murtala Muhammed

Today, exactly to the day, thirty-three years ago, Nigerians woke up to the sounds of martial music and the inebriated voice of a Lieutenant Colonel Buka Suka Dimka of the Nigerian Army on Radio Nigeria...

Labour Party Versus Ondo State People: The People Shall Win

It is a pity that the Labour Party is fighting it dirty and making politics look like a do or die affair. Politics is not dirty. Neither should it be as vicious...

OBJ IBB: For the Love of the Game and Power

In some ways it is not strange, that those who become accustomed to operating at the centre of the circles of power, invariably develop a sense of entitlement and an insatiable appetite for power, leaving them devoid of any other purpose in life...

Poverty Alleviation In Nigeria: How Effective?

It appears to me that many Nigerian leaders do not understand what it takes to alleviate the suffering of the poor masses of the country. Their programmes for poverty alleviation can hardly build people’s lives and provide them with better living conditions...

Modernity and the “Extended Family System”

If there is one institution in Nigeria and Africa that has stood the test of time, it is our traditional extended family system. It has weathered and is still weathering well programmed western spells and storms...

Orisirisi

The rulers of Nigeria have transformed orisirisi into a curious philosophy of governance. Orisirisi leadership plus orisirisi followership equals orisirisi country. Thus, we are the world’s most prolific supplier of farce...

Why Babangida Must Not Run For Presidency Again

I am not a fan of IBB at all, but I must concede that he is a charming, suave, polished and intelligent man. He is also a brilliant schemer. However, this does not defer from the fact that as of today, he is still widely regarded as the man who presided over the most corrupt government in the history of Nigeria...

The Street Children of Nigeria

"I have two sisters that I have not seen in five years, I have smoked Indian hemp like other boys of my age, got beaten by bigger boys, robbed of my money, took my bath in the canal and slept under the bridge..."

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Abia: Posterity May Find It Very Hard To Forgive Gov. Orji

The latest ranting by Governor Theodore Orji’s aides in the media is dishonourable. They have thrown decorum into the dust bin just as their principal has thrown a gemstone such as the position of a governor away and chosen to be a gainsayer...

The Role of Health Care in Socio-Economic Development of Nigeria

Nigeria is a nation rich in natural resources and earthly beauty. However, there are a number of issues blocking its socio-economic growth and development. Chief among these issues are the problems of healthcare and unemployment...

Nelson Mandela: Hallelujah! My Jesus Conquered satan’s Apartheid in South Africa

It is important to really understand the spiritual connection between the dangerous ideology of the Dutch Orthodox Church and how God used Nelson Mandela to defeat the dark forces of apartheid...

June 12 and the Hypocrisies of a Junta

“If this government truly believes in June 12, the...

Republic Of Boko Haram, Now!!!

The onset of a primordialised Nigeria held captive by a retrograde strain of theomanic Boko Haram should offer us a broader discursive narrative of the fiction of our oneness...

Saturday’s Governorship Elections In Nigeria And The Credibility Of The Electoral Commission

As the November 11, 2023, governorship elections in Imo,...

Self-Flagellation and The Abdulmutallab Affair

The United States, Indian and Israeli top security agencies have now been fingered as conspirators in the Christmas day attempt by Umar Faruok AbdulMutallab to detonate chemical explosives aboard Delta Airlines flight 253...

Secession: If The East Goes, The West Won’t Go!

As the quest for secession by several ethnic groups...

NTC: The time bomb!

The diminuendo of the ousting and death of Muammar Gaddafi came with the bombshell dropped by Mustafa Abdel Jalil in his inaugural speech, where he claimed Libya for sharia law, a law which had been jettisoned by the erstwhile government, and the immediate lift of ban on polygamy, as if that was the motive for staging this rebellion in the first place...

Thinking About Nigeria In The Olympics And Beijing 2008

Only time will tell how far we will go and how well we will do in the ongoing Olympic games.  I have saved a few bucks to give myself a treat any day our beloved country wins the gold medal in any sport...