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...

Your 200 Naira or Your Life

If 5 years have gone by and corrupt cops are no longer demanding N20 but N200, has the value of a Nigerian’s life increased or what?

Strange Things Have Happened In Nigeria

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998...

Strange Things Have Happened In Nigeria

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998...

Strange Things Have Happened In Nigeria

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998...

PDP And The Nigerian Judiciary

The Nigerian judiciary has never acted on its powers to declare any presidential or executive action unconstitutional since the President appoints federal judges...

The Clarion Call

No nation can thrive in violence, war or famine likewise no citizen can live with his two eyes closed during violence, war or famine...

Of Supreme Courts and Electoral Outcomes

In choosing to retain the status quo, by keeping in office a president, albeit one devoid of the public acclaim of the Nigerian people, the Supreme Court appears to have settled upon the best possible outcome out of a number of ‘worse case’ scenarios...

Scrap the National Youth Service Corp Today

A Northern Nigerian does not need to physically “serve” in Southern Nigeria or vice-versa to truly be able to demonstrate what he or she can contribute meaningfully in service to his country...

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Ribadu, Obasanjo, and The War Against Corruption

One is compelled to query the rationale behind the purported claim by Ribadu in New York on Monday, as reported by Empowered Newswire, that he is ready to die for Nigeria in his quest to fight corruption to a standstill...

Goodluck Jonathan: The Suspicion, The Resentment And The Consequences II

Almost from the time he became the governor of the state, he was despised by a segment of the populace. It was assumed that time would heal whatever wound and friction there wa. But for whatever reason, it was not to be...

Boutros Boutros Ghali: A Scholar and Diplomat

Long before he became Secretary-General of the United Nations,...

Chatting Across Borders

Everything is grounded in the country for now...the usual rituals of fuel scarcity at Xmas...Umoru is lying down half dead in a Saudi hospital and the country too lying comatose here...

What makes Afrozons Dubai Sound off authentically captivating and irresistible

As the global Dubai Expo 2020 kick starts, there...

Patience Ozokwor on Life in the Refugee Camp: We saw people die…

I prepped for this interview like I was going...

The UN Convention Against Corruption (2)

Like the living hydra, corruption manifests in many forms...

Mohammed Abacha: A Malapropos Tragedy?

Let us for once be candid, Mohammed Abacha has available to him the wealth of our nation, money that could have been used for our Schools, Hospitals, Roads, Children…

Osun: a future in the making?

Talking philosophically, the seed of tomorrow is always said...

Gov. Amaechi and the Benefits In APC

No matter how the PDP prides and tell Nigerians and by extension the world, that these persons who left the party do not hinder the progress of the party, it is covering its face in
humiliation...