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...

Yar’dua’s Only Crime

That Yar’dua procrastinates in decision making is his style. That style, we accept is clearly not acceptable. To me, it is that lack of action when action is needed that mars an otherwise excellent government...

Nigeria’s Sea Of Poverty And Her “Prosperous” Government!

Nigerians are being subjected to emotional labour by this government. Day by day we narrate dark-figured crimes. The manner in which we are exposing our inability to prioritize and solve more crucial problems first is crazy...

Nigeria’s Sea Of Poverty And Her “Prosperous” Government!

Nigerians are being subjected to emotional labour by this government. Day by day we narrate dark-figured crimes. The manner in which we are exposing our inability to prioritize and solve more crucial problems first is crazy...

The Stench From Speaker Bankole’s House

The only memorable statement I can recall ever hearing from Bankole in the recent past is his most unfortunate charge to his equally unprofitable and bankrupt colleagues to never oppose President Umar Musa Yar’Adua no matter what happens...

Legal Implications of The Benin Appeal Court Judgment In The Edo State Governorship Election Petition

By the judgment of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin City, in respect of the appeal from the Edo State election petition tribunal judgment that lied with it, the Judiciary has once again demonstrated that it is the custodian of the nation’s nascent democracy and the last bastion of the people’s rights...

Oshiomole Had Better Not Blow It!

This is not the time to refurbish the governor’s mansion, or build a new state secretariat. This is not the time for big allowances, or grand celebrations: neither is it the time for grandstanding or endless investigation of your predecessors. It is time for action...

Demilitarizing Nigerian Democracy!

For real democracy to take hold in Nigeria not only will the people of Nigeria have to fight the internal enemies of democracy, they will also have to overcome the crushing power of the military godfathers...

Demilitarizing Nigerian Democracy!

For real democracy to take hold in Nigeria not only will the people of Nigeria have to fight the internal enemies of democracy, they will also have to overcome the crushing power of the military godfathers...

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Ambassador John Campbell Is An Undiplomatic Loud Mouth!

There is nothing to know or learn about and from Ambassador John Campbell. If there is at all, it must be that he is not a friend of Nigeria!

Nollywood Personifies the Resilience and Ingenuity of the Nigerian, Says Sam Kargbo

Charles Taylor, former Liberian President, was very brutal and ruthless to Nigerians. He marked them out as his number one foes and acted in accordance with that hate mentality. But look at where he is today. Is it not an irony?

‘One Nigeria’: To Be Or Not To Be? (3)

The only way to put a stop to the squandering of our resources is to break away from the North and concentrate all our resources exclusively on our own development...

Rebranding Nigeria : An Elitist Sarcasm

Let me say unequivocally clear that I have no doubt in my mind that Dora Akunyuli means well for the nation. However, the Minister's strategy is fundamentally flawed, because it lacks merit on  basis, and  the possibility of  its success is next to zero. It will amount to another unreasonable wastage, and an effort in futility...

Iraqi War And The News Media

Is the news media serving to inform the public or helping to manufacture the people’s consent to the war?

Jesus Twin-Question as Eternity awaits all

While Satan is seeing priceless souls of men that he must ruin at all cost, men are seeing the world as ‘priceless’ and are doing everything to get it and so, they are not only exchanging their souls for the world but actually signing with the devil in his affront to our Creator...

The Tress Of Stress

Anybody who is stressed can be compared to a laboratory rat that constantly gets a dose of electric shock...

Edo 2012: Time To Stop Anenih!

During the Babangida kleptocratic regime in the early 90's the late Anini, an illiterate from then Bendel State, was terrorising the notorious state staging dare-devil robbery operations, sending letters in advance to his targets and sharing his loot with market-women and commoners on the street of Benin City!

To a Nation of Stereotypes…

For us Nigerians as a people, the time has come for us to realize that anytime we fan the embers of ethnicity and tribalism we easily wind the clock of our progress back, back to the days before we were colonized by the Brits...

Governor Of Bayelsa Can Appoint Ambassadors?

The immunity clause in our constitution was clearly not intended to shield or protect a president, vice president, governor or deputy governor, if they engage in gross misconducts and criminalities, such as rape, armed robbery or murder!