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...

How the Niger Deltans can get their freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 7)

The issue of the new special ministry of Niger Delta just created by Yaradua is so important that no amount of space and time devoted to its analysis could be too much...

How the Niger Deltans can get their freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 7)

The issue of the new special ministry of Niger Delta just created by Yaradua is so important that no amount of space and time devoted to its analysis could be too much...

How the Niger Deltans can get their freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 7)

The issue of the new special ministry of Niger Delta just created by Yaradua is so important that no amount of space and time devoted to its analysis could be too much...

The Ya Before the Hoo

You know that Nigeria is Sisyphus in the hands of this parasitic and unimaginative cartel that has recycled and reproduced itself so brilliantly since independence. Every time you think that Nigeria has begun to wriggle out of their hands, it rolls right back...

Niger Delta: Sitting On Oil, Hungry For Bread!

Ever since oil drilling got under way in the Niger Delta’s Oloibiri in the early 1950s, the communities that surround this stormy body of “oil-hood” have lived in dread of an environmental failure...

Niger Delta: Sitting On Oil, Hungry For Bread! (2)

Ever since oil drilling got under way in the Niger Delta’s Oloibiri in the early 1950s, the communities that surround this stormy body of “oil-hood” have lived in dread of an environmental failure...

On the History of Nigeria Railways

What was left for us by the British as a legacy of colonialism, we found it difficult to build on, not to talk of sustaining and improving it, contrary to such in other parts of the world. That is the way Nigeria has gone…

Senator Muhammadu Adamu Aliero, The Rising Profile of An Achiever

This is our toast, the toast of a long lasting covenant, the covenant of love and peace, that the Kebbi people shall remain united and that their leaders will strive to change their stations...

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A Call for the review of the treaty of Rome

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