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...

Open Letter To Senator Eme Ufot Ekaette

We are living in the 21st century, and in this day and age, it is reprehensible that you would try to dictate what women should wear in a society that is supposed to be democratic and free...

Memo to the Nigerian Street

You and I know how we got to this sorry pass...I don’t need to bore you with stale news about your condition. Nigeria is happening to you daily. You are a living embodiment of this hell...

Nigerian National Psychosis

Too many of us are hurting, too many of us are drifting away from the homeland, but rarely does a single one of us take responsibility for contributing to this insanity that makes us reject each other and the things that will ensure our survival into the future...

Nigeria And The Multinationals’ Intention: Oil Interest Or Social Influence?

Political will includes both a will to exercise self restraint and willingness to take politically risky decisions. Leaders are important for their value as role model. Especially in hero-worshiping cultures like Nigeria’s...

Nigeria And The Multinationals’ Intention: Oil Interest Or Social Influence?

Political will includes both a will to exercise self restraint and willingness to take politically risky decisions. Leaders are important for their value as role model. Especially in hero-worshiping cultures like Nigeria’s...

On Governor Fashola’s call to Nigerians in the Diaspora

I keep on wondering whether it is right for me to be true to my conscience and labour where I stand to reap the reward, than to demonstrate false “petro-patriotism or crude-patriotism” in the midst of abiding poverty and joblessness...

Constitutional Breaches: The Government Is Guilty!

The federal government is not just in Abuja .Actually, the federal government is a gigantic tapeworm with its mouth and brain in Abuja, and the rest of its innumerable segments curled through much of the land...

Nigeria Mad Mullahs and Historical Revisionism

The term Mullah is a reflection of the excessiveness and atrocities associated with fanatics in the likes of Osama Bin Laden and his cohorts, the Ayatollahs of Iran, and the Talibans of the recently deposed Neolithic regime of Afghanistan...

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Princes And Princesses On The Streets

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Wike’s Grouse and Implications for National Development

Jokes apart, I am a fan of Nyesom Wike,...

Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine: A Case of Giving a Dog a Bad Name

Most observers of the macabre dance of tears, sweat,...

My thought about peace in Nigeria

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals; to strive with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity, said Haile Selassie...

The Next Step

Whatever the outcome of Nigerian Labour Movement’s “appropriate response” to the current hike in the pump price of fuel in Nigeria is, it is certain that nobody in Nigeria will buy fuel at the old rate again...

Francisca Yetunde Emmanuel (Nee) Perreira

With Francisca Yetunde Emmanuel, what you see is what you get, because there are to pretenses about her. She would tell it like it is, no matter whose horse is gored...

The Promise of a Generation

We cannot be content at home and abroad, limiting ourselves to church planting and having mega conferences without a corresponding transformation of the United Kingdom and the Nigerian society.  These activities must demonstrate their relevance by affecting the people around us...

Renewable Energy Development: ERA hunts youths for sustainable Development

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Moving Quickly On

Before we move on, we need to deal with a small matter of the newspaper report that the National Assembly is contemplating steps to nullify the elections...