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...

The Niger Delta and Nigeria

Nigeria is sitting on a keg of gunpowder, especially with the Niger Delta and all the issues surrounding it. Things are degenerating very fast in this region and only sincere, focused, impartial and committed leaders will be able to defuse these problems, or else there will be no North, South, Niger Delta or indeed, Nigeria for anybody to call their own...

Bakassi Peninsula and The Question Of Nigeria’s Sovereignty

We have absolute facts and proof that some international courts and lawyers do not apply the law equally to the poor and minorities like the Bakassi people, thus denying them due process...

The Servant-Leader

When good governance translate into the measurement of outcomes and effects of public policy execution, as it should be, the government of this nation, led by President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, performed below optimal efficiency...

Akin Oshuntokun and Nigeria’s History of Corruption

In Today’s Nigeria, the biggest fools are the street urchins and the armed robbers. Why they waste valuable time, talent and energy robbing people of one hundred dollars or less is what I don’t bloody understand...

TRUESAID – Shaping Democracy for “Betta” Nigeria (Part 2)

The world has been conned into believing and, as a matter of fact, virtually accepting that freedom and equal rights are synonymous with democracy...

Trashed Probe: A Service Fee Crash Or The Due Process Casualty

From the look of things it appears that we don't have the will power to move a nation from economic and political obscurity to the luminous progress of the present global dispensation...

Criminalisation Of Poverty

It is the honest poor that get arrested on the mere suspicion that their haggard, hungry look suggests they might be criminals, or even for such non-existent offences like ‘wandering’, and dumped and forgotten in detention camps for being unable to buy their freedom...

Inferiority Complex: Nigerians and Their White Counterparts

It has to be humiliating what we are going through as a nation: an incompetent, rapacious and thieving leadership lording over a fatalistic, gullible and poverty-stricken populace...

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Quarter Past Time For Nigeria

In several levels, it’s bad news that Mr. Jonathan’s handlers have their sights set on 2015, deny it as they may. Give the devil his due: the PDP has no equal in the department of power grab. It’s a party that desires power for the sake of power...

A future wrecked by divorce

Tom Ugo is not his real name. He was 4 years old when his parents were divorced in 2012, because of what they said were their irreconcilable differences. Ugo did not go to school in the preceding year due to the quandaries that the divorce had degenerated into...

The Allegory of the Cave Should Not Play Out in the Ogoni Struggle

By Fegalo Nsuke In the past 30 years, we have...

Liberty, G8 and Poverty

The West has an obligation to help Africa because in 1884 the West officially caused the initial African mess: Currently, in the world economy, a chain is as strong as its weakest link...

Power Must Change Hands – Or Must It?

Anyone familiar with the spiritual thunderings of the colourfully...

The Vulnerability Of Nigerian Youths During Election

As the 2015 general election draws close, we have...

The Retired Ambassador Peter Anegbeh’s Inaugural Diplomatic Coup d’état Speech: A Rejoinder (4)

Despite the fact that the diplomatic coup d'état staged by the retired Nigeria High Commissioner to Malaysia, Mr. Peter Anegbeh, to oust the out-going leadership of NIDO-MY and usurp its leadership was considered foiled,  Mr. Anegbeh and his cohorts re-grouped and went ahead to conduct an unauthorized Annual General Meeting...

Woman in the Mirror

In May of 1998, she blessed me by touching my head three times. I never saw her again...

Despite Democracy Here, Rotten Deals Threaten

President Umaru Yar’adua, though on the right track with his anti-corruption stance, can never condone these unfaithful serving Nigerians among us. I am relieved over the sack of the Health Minister on that note...

Nigeria and the MDGs: Beyond the question of funds

Over the years, Nigeria had acted as if achieving the Millennium Development Goals was solely the responsibility of the Federal Government through an instrumentality that barely possesses the required capacity...