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...

Sanitizing the Electoral Process in Nigeria (1)

By it’s impractical provisions, the Electoral Act 2006 creates a lacuna, a window for electoral offenders to evade justice...

Ibadan: Free at Last, Free at Last, Thank God Almighty!

For those of us who retain pleasant memories of our time in Ibadan, we hope that it never again has to endure the sort of experience that it has over the past number of years...

Bashorun MKO Abiola Writes Nigerians With Compassion!

At the risk of sounding immodest, something I detest, let me declare that the dirt in my fingernail remains infinitely greater than the entirety of Olusegun Obasanjo...

Past Regimes And The Future Of Democracy: Reprehensible Or Comprehensible?

Lack of accountability and transparency, the hallmark of various administrations in the past, can to a large measure be held responsible for the level and intensity of corruption in the country...

Humphrey Nwosu And His Jaded Market

It is debatable whether the troika of Babangida, Buhari and Abdulsalami Abubakar would insult us with the recent suggestion of Abacha saintlihood were Obasanjo not the woeful failure he was in the last eight years...

Interview With Lamidi Adedibu, Formerly Amala Politician…

The setting is in limbo, a GRA  for  both the important and unimportant, those that the cosmic master himself has placed on a waiting list of cases yet to be decided. As the latest entrant to the semi-humid classroom, Adedibu is convinced that he deserves a place with the greats...

Rail Transportation: A Solution To The Carnage On Our Roads

If Nigeria wants to connect all the major cities in Nigeria by a world-class rail network and excellent world-standard standard good roads within the next 10 years, I have no doubt in my mind that the money is there...

The Vice President's Wife Speaks!

If the VP is a Doctorate degree holder and lecturer, how come he glossed over his wife's grammar over the years to the point that it has turned to a public embarrassment of sorts?

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There are Consequences

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How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 5)

My advice to the Niger Delta militants is that they should state clearly that they don't believe any more in one Nigeria, and want to opt out. They should make it clear to the North...

Repetition of Theatre of the Absurd in Anambra Elections

Let’s play politics, because as they say, all politics...

Iyabo Obasanjo’s Mirror

The Obasanjo who emerges in his daughter’s letter struck me as an altogether familiar figure. There are, for me, few surprises, save for the daughter’s unflinching marshaling of evidence unknown to most Nigerians in order to sustain her intrepid assessment of her father...

Alliance of Nigerian Leaders and Igbo Dropouts

All that any Igbo charlatan needs to hoodwink many...

Ok…I Confess!

I like the Bible. Anybody can quote from the Bible. Whether you are a correct or fake pastor, a thief, a swindler, a dream peddler or whatever, it doesn't matter. There is a place for you in the Holy Book...

Usukaloyi: The Spirit of Revolution

Usukaloyi is A Spirit The Spirit of Revolution It fears no...

Wole Soyinka, Igbo Cyber-Discourse, and the Myth of the Good Yoruba

What Winterbottom and the ignorant Europeans in Arrow of God do to Ezeulu is exactly what some of Soyinka’s Igbo admirers online are doing to him! What part of Arrow of God have they not read? What on earth do they imagine Achebe is saying about the production of otherness?

IBB: A Misunderstood Statesman?

Is IBB by any means a misunderstood statesman? I think he's not qualified to be addressed as a statesman and least of all a misunderstood one...

Atomic Energy for Electricity in Nigeria: Pres. Jonathan stirs Controversy

Nuclear energy is becoming a less viable energy source due to excessive production costs, safety concerns, and problems associated with final disposal of dangerous radioactive waste...