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...

Nigeria at 48: Looking Back, Going Forward

At 48, uncertainty and corruption straddle Nigeria like a Frankenstein. The direction of government is unclear. Cases against public officials are lingering unendingly in various courts...

Eye sore on Lekki-Epe Expressway

Driving on the entire stretch of the Lekki-Epe Expressway at night is a nightmare because the street lamps are not functional. And when it rains the drainages overflow, houses are almost submerged...

Independence Day: A Historical Journey on Nigeria’s Creation

While we may have gained independence from the British in 1960, the last forty-eight years has certainly not been independent to the majority of Nigerians, because we are still enslaved to a small cabal of ingeniously evil, corrupt, selfish, greedy, mad and murderous people in power, who have brought us to our knees…

Oil Gas Local Content Policy: Challenging the Limelight of Nigeria’s Technology

Nigeria provides a classic case of a developing country where despite the presence of a wide institutional infrastructure for producing trained manpower, generating new knowledge and providing science and technology services, the industry became increasingly dependent on foreign technologies...

Oil Gas Local Content Policy: Challenging the Limelight of Nigeria’s Technology

Nigeria provides a classic case of a developing country where despite the presence of a wide institutional infrastructure for producing trained manpower, generating new knowledge and providing science and technology services, the industry became increasingly dependent on foreign technologies...

THISDAY, Lawrence Summers, and the Future of Africa

Obaigbena and his editors, in their infinite wisdom, have concluded that two representatives of American market fundamentalism are in the most auspicious position to perorate on “the challenges of Nigeria’s policy and market environment”. If we are lucky, the two Americans may even “proffer solutions” to our market challenges...

48 Years Of Nigeria’s Underdevelopment: A Fruit Of Failed And Recycled Policy!

Even if our governments are not the only ones that are bad, they have ranked low for decades on most international comparisons of corruption, state failure, red tape, lawlessness and dictatorship...

Nigeria’s Intelligence Agencies (Spy Network)

The Nigerian intelligence agencies must resolve to do a better job of protecting our vital interests. As things are, our boundaries, airports, seaports and waterways are not well-manned...

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Could Orji Kalu Be An Agent Of The C.I.A.? (2)

What is most annoying, disappointing, incomprehensible and incredible to believe is the condemnation of the arrest of Kalu for embezzlement by the  Igbo Youth Congress...

Enough Of The Obasanjo Family, Please!

Bitter-Sweet: My Life With Obasanjo, is all about a woman’s attempt to rewrite herself into prominence and reckoning in one man’s life, to demonstrate, albeit incoherently...

Facebook etcetera, the new Zapitski

Who really is Mark Zukerberg, aka the founder of Facebook? How old is he? How possible is it for a school drop out and for a chap less than forty years old to develop so novel an idea just for the sake of socialising? Did he really ‘originate’ Facebook or is he just a front for an elite intelligence network?

As The Deregulation Blues Resonates Again

The hounds are unleashed on this god-forsaken and raped country again. They are laundered in their legion to prey on hapless and battered Nigerians. They have dusted their cannibalistic writs and are spewing utter balderdash that supports the renewal of their strength against the sagging life line of Nigerians...

At The Brink Of A Watershed

"Dear God, I have sinned against you and almost broken the vow I made before you. Did you not say that anyone who looks lustfully at a woman has already committed fornication in his heart with her? Please forgive me..."

For the Avoidance of Doubt: Time and Tide wait for No one

During the weekly review of Nigerian affairs by the...

Amaechi’s Economic Environment

Rivers State today knows peace, even when people say that corruption is like a sport among the Nigerian political mobsters in public offices and that Nigeria will never know any peace until the right people are voted into office...

Goodbye “No Probs”: Tribute to Otunba Jobi Fele

The late Otunba Mohammed Jobi Fele possessed a lot of the values and attitude our society desperately needs today; he was best known for his virtues and capabilities as an efficient and honest administrator, successful and resourceful businessman, brave and focused industrialist, and on top of all that he was also known to be generous and humane...

The Nigerians I Know

In the sense that there is no set Nigerian culture since we have 250-350 different ethnic groups that may or may not know jack about their neighbor, we may have been the area where the Biblical Tower of Babel fell...

Why Have We Abandoned Honourable Haruna Yerima?

May I plead with President Obasanjo and all men of goodwill to prevail on the house to rescind its decision and recall Honorable Haruna Yerima with immediate effect...