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...

Conditions for Revolution In Nigeria

Iit is only history that will determine when, and the pattern, Nigeria’s revolution will take...

Uzoma Okereke: The Story Of Brute Injustice

Miss Okereke’s saga is the tale of many Nigerians – men and women badly treated by the same authorities that should protect them. And we keep quiet. Oh, the curse of a nation! We keep quiet because we are afraid of what the consequences might be...

Will Oshiomhole Survive Edo State

Everyone with an eye on the ground watching the nation’s political landscape knew that November 11 was pregnant. And when the day delivered in the form of a judgment by the appeal court in Benin City, Edo State, it became clear that there was nothing anybody could do anymore...

Edo State, Osunbor And The Restituted Seat Of Power!

We have sympathized with Oserhiemen Osunbor. It is unfortunate that as a law professor, he is unable to read and understand the March 20th tribunal’s judgment that was delivered live on radio and television against his "mandate" in Edo State government House...

Oshiomhole’s Triumph As Panacea For Change

The triumph of veteran labour leader, Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole in the legal contest for the gubernatorial seat of Edo State earlier in the week is one of the rare pieces of good news that waft from the badly governed and vicariously mismanaged country called Nigeria...

The Free Readers Club

Of great interest is the newspaper reading trend which has been in existence in various nooks and crannies of Nigeria. It is jokingly called the The Free Readers Club...

The Forgotten

The Mushin People are not just forgotten by an average Nigerian, they are also forgotten by Lagosians. Despite the enormous development going on in Lagos, this part of the world knows no pleasure...

Empty Promises And Selfish Governance

We can redefine the political and social system of our country by voting for credible and responsible politicians who have great respect for the concerns of fellow countrymen and women...

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The Nigeria in Kenya

Each day I walked the streets of Nairobi, listened to the radio, watched programmes on Kenyan television stations or read the Kenyan newspapers, the quantity and quality of resemblances between Nigeria and Kenya never ceases to amaze me...

Of Elections and Judicial Pronouncements

I have always been curious about judicial pronouncements in...

The 21st Century Christian Brand

The contemporary brand of Christianity in Nigeria is in dire need of re-branding. We need to face reality and accept the fact that we have failed to meet our own expectations and that of the wider society...

Filth in the Educational Sector

We are today confronted with the case of a naked public square which signals the gradual disappearance in just two generations of the religious or metaphysical principles that have sustained human and material civilization for over two millennia. This dangerous and painful turn is penetrating into our society today...

I Don’t Expect You To Understand My Pain! I Don’t Really Care If You Don’t

I have said hello to someone today, and had to say goodbye the next day. It’s always the same painful feeling as I see their bodies in huge coffins buried in the dirt. They tell me strangers took them away, and these strangers have names...

State of the Nation: Free Readers Speak

'9ja is a typical case of the Biblical nation of Israel that only draws near to God in times of troubles, afflictions and dire need. When all is well, they forget all past woes and go AWOL like King Solomon with 1000 women. The man strong oh! Why didn't God strike him dead?'

Despite Democracy Here, Rotten Deals Threaten

President Umaru Yar’adua, though on the right track with his anti-corruption stance, can never condone these unfaithful serving Nigerians among us. I am relieved over the sack of the Health Minister on that note...

Osun: Evolution Throwback?

In general terms, Sociology refers to the scientific understanding...

Posterity, Eternity (3): Between Need and Excesses

How many brethren today are keeping things and monies they can do without? Lest you allow your flesh to answer that question lets rephrase it for the attention of your spirit! How many a brethren are keeping things and monies God knows they can do without?

Concurrent Commiseration and Congratulation: Our National Dilemma

The foreigners might mourn with us, their eyes are however not blind from the ubiquitous I-don’t-care attitudes, neither are their nostrils blocked such that they can’t sense the cosmopolitan opportunistic aura emanating from our political circuits...