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...

Obama’s Inauguration as a Global Face-Lift!

Barack Obama becomes president of the United States this Tuesday, 20th January, 2009. That time, he will have little breathing room to deal with ‘the horrible mess’ left by his predecessor...

Officer, Arrest Dat Man!

I’ve always argued that Nigeria presents social scientists with the unique research situation of the citizen-as-state. Every Nigerian is a state. The UN needs to recognize all 140 million of us and grant each Nigerian a seat at the General Assembly...

Independent Candidates In Nigeria: A Recipe For National Disaster

The following is a review of independent party concept in Nigerian history, its impact in the United States of America, and the consequences for the African nation...

Where Is the Pride of Nigerians?

Nigeria is challenged. With growth, we have a chance to wipe out the stigma of abject poverty, and our people can enjoy the advantages of being citizens of an increasingly prosperous country...

Our Political Leaders Faintly Understand This Economy!

With all due respect to Mr. President, the political career of Umaru Yar'Adua is not the most pressing issue on the national agenda. What is most critical, rather, is that this country be governed by men and women with the ability to protect it and to keep its people safe...

Corruption: A Nigerian Norm

Across the nation today, different religious organizations offer prayers against bribery and corruption in Nigeria. Salvaging Nigeria from this scourge of corruption will definitely require a complete change in the value system of Nigerians...

Reps Delay in The Passage Of 2009 Budget Is Justified

For the first time in recent times, the House of Representatives has taken steps towards doing the right thing. The delay in its passage of the 2009 budget despite the Senate's decision to pass the same budget last December is quite justified...

Oil Has Kept Nigerians Suffering!

Who are the people suffering and why are they suffering? Is it because the people don’t have money to buy what they need? Don’t they have land to cultivate their farms?

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Just another story?

With this recent attack on the United Nations building, one may attempt to say apparently, it has to be the last. The hitherto peaceful international waters have been troubled and there is a furore and heads must roll.

Africa And President Barack Obama

As the Obama Presidency makes its final, tortuous and sure-footed journey from dreamland to reality, it is desirable that Nigerians and Africans must package what they actually want from that presidency...

Standby President Urgently Needed Here

How can some concerned Nigerians be talking of having...

Minimum Wage Brouhaha, Salary Payment Punch-ups

If governance is all about tackling and surmounting daunting challenges on entirely sacrificial note with huge results, you will need the likes of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and David Ben-Gurion. Those beautiful ones are not yet born in Nigeria...

Nigeria still longs for its own Barack Obama!

Barack Obama is the epitome of grace, graciousness, class,...

Legend of the Son of a Reverend Father: Odili Tony Ujubuonu

When he writes his novels, he bears the name...

A Bearded Poet Does Harare

We must find pride again in our culture. We must find fun in our healthy games, magic in our stories, strength in our tight family bonds, joy in the midst of all the problems caused by the haste with which our societies were modernised...

Still On Acho Orabuchi’s Desperate Smeer Campaign on Imo

As one of my friends will say, the greatest affliction is a self-chosen blindness just because it cannot be cured unless the person so afflicted decides to free himself from the type of self denial that visited him with such affliction...

Naija Notes: Teaching Obj A Lesson

Before now, OBJ behaved like he was a messiah and we owed him for condescending to be our president. Today, he has fallen off that high horse...

Abatimania: All Hail Abuja Spin Doctor!

Let it be said that Abuja overpowering witchcraft has a bewitching power to trim and tone up the firestorm and libertarian courage of Reuben Abati and render him totally useless, voiceless and faceless like our dear Ebenezer Babatope. Whoever underrates Abuja digs his own...