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...

Probe The NDDC And Scrap It!

We know it as truth that in Africa, any time mothers decide to cry out on any issue, it is always difficult to deny them an ear...

TRUESAID – Shaping democracy for betta Nigeria (Part 1)

 The trouble with Nigeria is simply arrogance of power based on complete lack of accountability from its leaders. All else - corruption, traffic jams, police brutality etc, etc are simply details of these...

TheNews Vs Kalejaiye: The Stinking Judicial Romance In Osogbo

The Lagos-based popular newsmagazine 'TheNews', whose motto is "Defining the present, Shaping the future", stirred a huge national controversy by its last week's edition captioned: "The Scandal of Judges: How Osun Tribunal Was Compromised"...

On Bended Knee: Abacha’s Climate of Fear and Today’s Climate of Impunity

It is time for ordinary Nigerians, the perpetual victims of oppressive regimes, to put an end to their supplications and rise from their bended knees...

Sitting Electoral Tribunals: A Party Influence or Public Interest?

President Yar’Adua can take his chances and hope that Nigerians will accept another fixed result in 2011. Or he can lead from the front and push electoral reform as the priority of his presidency...

Politics And The Future Of Nigeria

Few weeks ago, it was announced that the administration will be spending over US$600m on power, does that not mean that that the US$16b spent by the last administration is gone?

Memo To The Electoral Reform Panel

I don’t think much of the intention of the Yar’Adua government to reform the electoral process. Although he had empanelled a body, with a sprinkle of some credible personages, he and his government have showed disturbing streaks of abhorrence towards reforming the rouge system...

Now, Will President Yar’Adua Be Kind?

Quitting now would be more redemptive of Yar’Adua’s person than being remembered later as the groping undertaker of a richly endowed but seriously ill nation?

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Global Education: The Nigerian School Project

Nigeria is a challenging place to live, work, or travel. Oil rich, the country still falls desperately short of meeting the educational needs of its children. But the kids are so fantastic, so engaged, so curious about the world...

The Effects of Alcohol and Drugs on Road Traffic Accidents

The most important steps to be taken in order to stay out of trouble on the road are to; continuously observe the roads around you, anticipate what may happen that could be a risk to you and other road users, and respond by taking appropriate quick steps or actions before the risk increases...

Change Catalysts In Pursuit Of a New Nigeria

Change in the Nigerian context has always been an interesting discourse, bearing in mind the fact that the nation’s history is filled with very many experiences that remain talking points till date...

Tinubu’s Catastrophic Leadership: How One Man’s Greed Is Driving Nigeria into Ruin

Bola Ahmed Tinubu had one job—save Nigeria from total...

Toward the Rise of the African Giant

If This Giant Must Rise: Interventions on Leadership and...

Nigerian Animal Farm: Monkey dey work, baboon dey chop!

(I started writing this article in March 2014, but...

They Will Kill Nuhu Ribadu

When they murder Nuhu Ribadu - and they will because these are conscience-less, super-entrenched sadists) - the newspapers and Internet pages will be filled with dirges and cries of another hero lost...

A Super-Charged Nation

Do Nigerian men really walk about packing a permanent hard on as the image in one of the energy drink brands suggests or is it the women that are leading them on...

Afrofest In The Park

Nadine’s enthusiasm for Africa would shame most Nigerians. We are so much into being other people that we lose all sense of identity. We would rather embrace the artificial and empty cultures imposed on us by the mass media than seek answers in our own culture, music, and arts…

Obasanjo’s War

My reading of Obasanjo is unflattering. If he had begun his presidency with the kind of zeal he is now displaying, Nigeria would have been a much better country. Or, at the very least, a modicum of law and order and institutional sanity would have enveloped the nation...