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...

An Abject Abdication of Responsibility

Most of us who are offended by our wayward ways as a nation need to minimise the  analyses and come together in order to initiate something that will catalyse positive change in our society in decades to come...

“Accountability” in Oyo State: A New Word in Alao-Akala’s Lexicon

What Alao-Akala is doing is steal enough money with which he can create his own niche, establish his own connections and power base, and buy up everybody who is for sale in Oyo State in order to facilitate his re-election in 2011 since Adedibu is no longer able to rule Oyo State by proxy...

Is There a Potential For War in Bakassi?

Recent Statements by some senior Military Leaders in Nigeria indicate that there is great displeasure with the outcome of the Border Conflict with neighboring Cameroon...

Lagos: Mega City, Mega Miseries!

No sincere person can deny that Lagos is fast acquiring a refreshingly new face. The roads which were once famous for their horrible, car-destroying, hypertension-multiplying craters are beginning to experience rapid transformations...

The Niger Delta Doesn’t Need War But Sincerity

The Niger Delta is in ferment and with it the Nigerian state and the entire world oil industry. For now, the hottest issue in international oil politics is how to deal with the cyclical Niger Delta problem...

The Insults and the Injuries are Piling Up on Us

The current situations in Nigeria are disgusting me and I am feeling like puking or giving up hope that I will ever see a country where righteousness prevails...

Nwosu And June 12: A Call For Social Action

I have now come to the conclusion that members of the ruling cabal in Nigeria are plain demons. I thank God that those generation of unpatriotic military officers are gradually losing their firm grip on power...

Taking The Niger Delta To The Chatham House: Convicting The Blood! Curtailing The Oil!

That the Nigerian economy has lost more than one billion dollars a month and hundreds of thousands of barrels of crude a day since 2006 due to unrest in the Niger Delta is not a fresh story...

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Akátá vs. Afrikàná: The Truth about our ‘Differences’

Tensions between “Akatas” and Africans in this country have worsened since the upsurge of African immigration here in the ‘80s, but were always there.  And they remain tense, in some circles.  Why?

A Criminal is on the Loose

There is something about Governor Alamieyeseigha’s great escape from London that just doesn’t sound right. That an accused can just board a transatlantic flight without the Nigerian and British immigration and security services knowing about it is simply perplexing...

Odighizuwa: He Didn't Have His Medication

Perhaps prior to the Odighizuwa case, only a few people bother about the thousands of immigrants that end up in the different inner cities in America; in county, state and federal jails; in mental hospitals and in the gutters as a result of trying to escape the harsh realities of American life via the use of drugs.

Anthony Bourdain: In Memoriam

Just read that Anthony Bourdain has joined his ancestors.  He...

The Other Side of Abdulmuttalab

Abdulmuttalab is now more popular than Barack Obama and Michael Jackson put together.  He has completely changed how the world and our international friends view Nigeria and Nigerians. He has caused a diplomatic row between two birds of unlikely feathers...

When African Social Movements Go Global

In this brief article, I address how the model of sociopolitical resistance adopted by the social movements associated with the World Social Forum operates within the African continent. By operating under the umbrella of the World Social Forum, social movements become visible and intelligible within a global context...

2012 Budget: fiscal prudence, subsidy removal and other issues

Allocating 72% of the budget to recurrent expenditure seems to me very outrageous, and a move away from the government mantra of fiscal prudence. Though, as one analyst observes, it is not easy to cut recurrent expenditure in one fell swoop...

Mercantilist Christianity

The yuletide is upon us again. It is that...

Reforming Police and Policing Reforms

I agree with most of the recommendations of the police reform committee since it is aimed at improving the security situation in the country. Security is paramount for any venture including the sustenance of our democracy...

A Letter to Malam

Dear Malam, Congratulation on your well deserved victory as the...