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...

Igbo Presidency: Being Scuttled or Shuttled?

The appearance of favoritism weakens morale in government service, not to mention public faith in the integrity of government...

Speaking Truth to Power: ‘Send Down Dollars’

Another instance of their being more to Lagos other than show is a man named Raji Babatunde Fashola SAN, the governor Lagos State.  While other governors concentrate on their skin tone and appearance he devotes his time to the appearance of Lagos and its infrastructure...

Gov. Jang's Incompetence and the Politicization of The Jos Crisis

According to a newspaper report, total calm is still yet to return to Jos. It is for this reason that all hands must be on deck to find a lasting solution to the crisis which has led to the loss of many lives...

The Delta State Is Safe!

Human security will not be achieved without protecting people in conflict and post-conflict situations, shielding people forced to move, eradicating poverty, ensuring universal primary education, guaranteeing basic health service...

History Lesson 101: “Lugard And Colonial Nigeria – Towards An Identity?”

I am again merely reproducing this fine piece that throws more light on the feud and rivalry between our colonial administrators and which seem to have been passed down to us, and is the causative of most of the ethnic distrust and problems that still exist in Nigeria today…

History Lesson 101: “Lugard And Colonial Nigeria – Towards An Identity?”

I am again merely reproducing this fine piece that throws more light on the feud and rivalry between our colonial administrators and which seem to have been passed down to us, and is the causative of most of the ethnic distrust and problems that still exist in Nigeria today…

Ribadu's Dismissal By The PSC Is Unfair

In as much as I agree with the position of the Police Service Commission (PSC) that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu's conduct in recent times fell below expectation, the PSC was not fair in its resolution...

At Daggers Drawn: Progressive Mallams Conservative Alhajis

In Mallam Ribadu’s calendric experience, December, rather than April, has to be the cruellest month...

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Of Erastus Akingbola, Enoch Adeboye and 8000 Instant Elders

The term 'pastor' has been commercialised to the sad extent that almost anyone can don the holy title with no qualms or queries. This is the reason our local media runs amok with stories of scandalous, adulterous, murderous and counterfeit pastors unreservedly disgracing the name of God...

Rivers’ Forceful Environmental Decongestion

By this hour of filing this report (1:50PM), today, 8 March, 2012, some people accompanied by soldiers allegedly from the state government Rivers State stormed Oyigbo, Rivers State, destroying what they claim are illegal structures...

The PDP Mass Exodus and the Coming Implosion of the APC

The discordant tunes in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party,...

Don’t Hang Saddam Hussein

The killing by hanging of Saddam will not resurrect those he ordered to be buried alive. Hussein's hanging may rather inflame the current tidal waves in Iraq. It will exhume the buried anger of Saddam's kinsmen and jeopardize the instituted democracy...