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 Days Gone By

I am hunting for a house presently and at the same time trying to settle into a new job. New work ethics, new colleagues, new bosses, new sector, new everything. There are things to learn again, especially being a Nigerian again after sojourning abroad...

Obama’s Success in the US and Lessons for Ndigbo in Nigeria

When we see an old woman stop her dance to point again and again in the same direction, we can be sure that somewhere there something happened long ago which touched the roots of her life. Something is happening in America that should touch the roots of Ndigbo in Nigeria...

Nigerian Journalism and The Guardian Newspaper

What Rutam House has demonstrated is that it is very much like most other organization that has been oppressing and exploiting its workers. The Guardian, when it is all said and done, is no better than ThisDay and several other media outlets in the country...

Nigeria: To be or not to be?

If breaking up Nigeria will make you, your family and ethnic group live 'at least' 10 times better than now in the next 10 years, are you ready to support the break up of Nigeria now?

Nigeria: To be or not to be?

If breaking up Nigeria will make you, your family and ethnic group live 'at least' 10 times better than now in the next 10 years, are you ready to support the break up of Nigeria now?

Nigeria: To be or not to be?

If breaking up Nigeria will make you, your family and ethnic group live 'at least' 10 times better than now in the next 10 years, are you ready to support the break up of Nigeria now?

Nigeria: To be or not to be?

If breaking up Nigeria will make you, your family and ethnic group live 'at least' 10 times better than now in the next 10 years, are you ready to support the break up of Nigeria now?

Nigeria: To be or not to be?

If breaking up Nigeria will make you, your family and ethnic group live 'at least' 10 times better than now in the next 10 years, are you ready to support the break up of Nigeria now?

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Further discussions on the Future of Africa (4)

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London G20 Summit Minus Nigeria!

Mr President, Nigeria is part of the global economy, therefore your government should fashion out a way by which Nigeria should benefit from this big global economic stimulus announced by the G20...

Abati: To Your Tent O Israel!

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Charles Chukwuma Soludo Vs Nasir El-Rufai: The Rising Stars Of Nigerian Politcs

After reading Nasir El-Rufai’s The Accidental Public Servant, I anticipated that many people would have something to say about the book. Those people who have implicated in the book have started voicing their dismay...

Nigeria: From Egypt To Canaan

This piece is a call to civil duty. It...

Pages in Life

My father's only moment of embarrassment arose when I asked him about a near miss gun shot at my mother. He stated that it was never meant for my mother but rather for a sinister target he thought he observed at that time. My mother thought otherwise...

Niger Delta: Sitting On Oil, Hungry For Bread!

Ever since oil drilling got under way in the Niger Delta’s Oloibiri in the early 1950s, the communities that surround this stormy body of “oil-hood” have lived in dread of an environmental failure...

Nigeria and Thug-Elections!

The criminalization of politics has inevitably led to the politicization of crime. Of course, electoral politics is not the sole reason for the criminalization of politics...