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...

Re-calibrating The Radical Thrust of Intellectual Diaspora

The sign of the times now demands that a growing collection of intelligent Nigerians are vocalising and constructing a historic trajectory with a self-ennobling mandate to offer holistic solutions to the damaged social values of Nigeria...

The Madness Of Our Leaders

Some of our Nigerian politicians and leaders are so mad that that they keep their loot in their houses; some of them even bury cash in graves; while some of them just go on buying every property and business in sight, despite the fact that they can only sleep in one room at a time...

The Executive/Legislative Tango in Abeokuta

It can not be seen as a 'crime' or the extra ordinary when members of a State House of Assembly seek for accountability and good governance in conformity with their constitutional briefs...

The Arewa Consultative Forum and the Niger Delta Conflict

The upcoming conference is nothing but a charade, another in a long line of government’s duplicitous acts. Solve the Niger Delta problems for the sake of justice, peace, and stability...

Corruption, Opposition, And The Ribadu Experience

Corruption is Nigeria’s number one problem and has continued to endanger the chances of any meaningful national development and unity. But why have the different anti corruption programs failed to yield the desired results?

From Olusegun Obasanjo – In His Best Element!

Fellow 'Wazobians' at home and abroad, my son Gbenga was instigated by my many enemies to go public with an 'incest' allegation against me, his distinguished father. Well, he seems to have come to his manipulated senses now...

The Fate Of Nigeria

Why is Nigeria in spite of its endowment in human and material resources continuing to wallow in political turmoil and economic depression?

Yar’Adua, Give Nigerians Prepaid Metres!

I entered a filling station to buy fuel and the crowd I saw there almost scared me. It was when I looked closely that I saw containers of different sizes in the hands of the people. Oh, all those people had come to purchase fuel for the countless generators they use to generate power for themselves in a failed state like Nigeria...

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Black Brothers And Their White Chics

What is it about white chics that lure successful brothers away, so much so as to make them forget about all the bootylicious endowments and soul food skills of our black sisters?

Before Government Forecloses the Education of Poor Nigerians

There is no free education anywhere in Nigeria. The only governments that provided free education in Nigeria were the Action Group and Unity Party of Nigeria administrations of the former Western Region during the First and Second Republics...

I love Nigeria Just Because…

I have said this in the past and I am doing so again pointedly. Nigerians have a dramatic effect on me. Nigerians are the bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh...

The Withdrawal of US troops from Iraq

After six years of engagement in a contentious war in Iraq, there appears to have been a re-think about the military intervention in that country...

Between Inordinate Ambition and Good Governance

It is no longer surprising that inordinate ambition, narrow-mindedness and greed have been the causes of insecurity, mindless corruption, poor or bad governance, all culminating in poverty, mediocrity, underdevelopment and conflicts in many African countries...

Gabon: Moment of Truth

There’s always a general tendency which is often ignored...

Are Nigerians United Against Corruption?

I have maintained in the past that I abhor corruption because of its consequences. You would think that all reasonable persons, especially Nigerians, are united against the corruption scourge, and therefore intently focused in the war against it?

Alex Ugwu And His Revoja Academy Calms Awka With “Dere Juu”

Whenever I encounter a creative work of art imbued...

African Science: The Science of Africans, by Africans and for Africans

Any discourse on African development, whether from the economic,...