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...

Isaiah Osagiede: An Ode To The Honest And Sacrificial Abuja Cabman

There are still honorable and truthful Nigerians whose inner configurations are knitted with truth and their hearts are ruled by a sense of justice and fairness...

Segun Adeniyi’s Roforofo Conversation with his Conscience

Mr. Conscience, you are allowing yourself to be used by those foolish diasporic Nigerians who are writing me open letters. They more than deserve the spanking they got from Pat Utomi who calls them empty internet warriors...

Social Housing in Nigeria – An Imminent Mass Housing Revolution?

Nigeria is yet to develop a vibrant housing and mortgage market, social and affordable housing policies, and housing continues to be provided through tortuous traditional methods of buying land and building over some years...

Nigeria: What We Should Ponder On

We all complain about Nigeria but the truth of the matter is that you and I make up the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Our lackadaisical individual lives have affected our collective goals as a nation...

Equal Opportunity Embezzlers

Mr. Dimeji Bankole, the speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives has finally conceded to a probe, over the car purchase contract scandal rocking the lower house at the moment...

Yar Adua Cannot Lead Nigeria Anywhere

Nigerians are the worst of dysfunctional optimists in the world. But shock awaits their timidity. Umaru Musa Yar Adua will never lead Nigeria anywhere. He is grossly ill equipped for that...

Babatunde Fashola: the Loner of Sodom?

There are legitimate questions to ask about Fashola’s road to office. It is a photocopy of Yar’Adua’s route to Aso Rock: the route of brazen, nepotistic, and muscular godfatherism...

Licensed to drive, licensed to cheat

Some Nigerians who are seemingly unqualified to drive but who obtain driving licenses indiscriminately contribute to the rise in motor accidents as well as swell the ranks of those who use the licenses to impersonate and defraud...

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What can President Obama do for Black America?

Past inspiring, Mr. Obama during his presidency must commit himself to tackling the important areas of concerns to African Americans if he wants his name in gold...

2015: The Die is cast and the Time is fast. Jonathan’s Universe of the Turning Wheel (2)

Since 1960, Nigeria has gone full circle. From coup d’états to relay military autocracies, to arrangee presidential impositions, rigged elections, Supreme Court awards to failed candidates, political fractiousness to fragmentations, to fermentations, to decay...

Na The Same Mama Born Dem

Na from airport I don begin smell God hand for this country. The kind breeze wey blow me after wey I commot for the aeroplane na better fine breeze wey just cool my body well well...

Rivers Water Project Development Cannot Be State-restricted

This is my rejoinder to Odimegwu Onwumere’s article with the title “Rivers without Water”. N250 billion for water project in the state sounds like a lot of money, like he said. But I think it is not the sum alone that should be reported for consideration...

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...

Nigerian teachers for South African schools?

It is incomprehensible how Nigerian policy makers contemplate and implement evidently wrong-headed initiatives and decisions that leave not a few of us wondering and stupefied...

What Are Yar’Adua’s Ideologies, Values, and Intentions?

How can we hold Yar'Adua accountable if we do not know where he stands and what he stands for, what he intends to do and where he is taking the country?

Man’s Survival: Way out of Food and Energy Crisis

It pops up in the media regularly. A hydra headed monster which has posed serious threat to man’s survival. Generally referred to as food and energy crisis, one wonders whether there is no more land to grow food...

Amaechi and His Lesson to RUST’s Lecturers

The perceived show of might between the Rivers State Governor and the striking lecturers of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology under the umbrella of ASUU has taken a different dimension...

What It Means To Be Calm Before The SAT…

It is important that we clarify what we mean when we tell our candidates to be 'calm' before a near syllabus-less exam like the SAT or TOEFL...