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 – Disintegration Secession: Cop Out, Not a Solution

Is Nigeria worth saving? Why is Nigeria worth saving? How do we save Nigeria? Can this about to be forty-eight years old be redeemed from itself?

Speaking Truth to Power: President Yar’Adua’s Kairos Moment?

The recent times in Nigeria resemble a drama containing scene after scene with no discernable plot or any conclusion in sight.  The Nigerian audience is served and presented with one period of lethargy after another...

Yar’Adua Needs Our Support

I am not asking social critics and commentators to give the President a free ride for eternity. I am not asking that they abandon their constitutional responsibilities. But this President seems to be the listening kind. He needs and deserves our support...

Between President Yar’adua and Alhaji Kingibe

It is often advocated in politics, that it is advisable to keep one’s ‘enemies’ within sight in order to keep a close eye on them. But in the case of Alhaji Kingibe it may be best to dispatch him...

Yar’adua Cabinet Restructure: Redefining Or Redeeming Wrong Tools?

In an apparent move to consolidate power, President Yar'Adua has made sweeping changes to the federal ministries. It is believed to play the part of efforts of this administration to fast-track and effectively coordinate the implementation of her seven-point agenda...

A Day At The Ikoyi Passport Office

I saw energetic young immigration officers looking smart and sharp in their starched khaki uniforms. It was almost as if they were on a mission to restore the pride and glory of uniformed men in Nigeria...

Yar’ Adua’s Health Crisis And The Options Before Nigeria

The main issue from the national crisis occasioned by Yar A’dua’s recent health crisis is that the country, must as of compulsion, discuss the possible alternatives open to the country should Yar A’dua drop dead...

Yar’Adua’s Health and the Need for Full Disclosure

A president’s declining health or death adversely affects the psyche of the citizenry. This is so because a president is a thread in a nation’s blanket...

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An Open Letter to Sir Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Group

Dear Sir Branson, if the world has any desire to survive the turbulent times, people like you should be studied as part of academic curriculum in schools and universities...

Coming to America (2)

Handling visiting relatives is as dangerous as handling a scorpion.  Yes, I understand that most don’t know how the system work and need a little guidance in getting around and doing things - but the ones that refuse to listen and claim to be I-Too-Know in all things American - those ones are just plain annoying...

The Death of Nigerian Sports and A Walk Down Memory Lane (2)

I would like to take my fellow countrymen and women down memory lane with some facts about sports in Nigeria not too long ago; and maybe we will wake up to how desperate our sports situation is. It made me proud and cry at the same time...

Solving Nigeria’s Despairing Power Sector Problem

This piece is not unmindful of the seeming improvement Goodluck Jonathan has brought to the power sector. We think it is too insignificant though. And that is apart from the possible fact that this marginal upping of result here could be all about the 2011 elections, after which we grind to a halt again...

Rivers’ Paralytic Polio

Please, commend Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State and the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, for showing concern for the polio victims all over the country and bringing up the issue of polio in what was tagged the one day session national campaign against polio...

Speaking Truth to Power: Nigeria and the Casual Truth

A few weeks have now elapsed since Yar'Adua's arrival in Nigeria in the dead of the night and yet no credible sightings of him are available to anyone.  Nigeria and the world are left in the dark, fed with rumours for crumbs...

Demons

I am not a nice person. I come before everybody. If at all you are unfortunate to come within my sphere of existence, chances are, you are there to fulfill some need of mine...

On Internet Journalism, Censorship and Ignore Lists… (Critics Beware!)

In as much as the Internet was meant to be open and a place where mere mortals can rove and exchange thoughts, I believe that ignore lists are tools from the devil to thwart our natural freedoms...

Diran Odeyemi: The Chief Hypocritical Sycophant in Oyo State

Before sitting down to write this piece, I spent two days going through Odeyemi’s past articles. I am convinced that if Adedibu and Obasanjo have access to Odeyemi’s old write-ups, they will discover that the man is a fair-weather friend...

The Okonjo-Iweala-Adeniji Scandal Stinks to the High Heavens!

Creating a special cadre of public servants like Obasanjo has done is not the way to go at all. The case can now be made that Obasanjo's declared intent to reform the Civil Service, and end corruption in our country is a dead issue...