Nigeria Matters

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Do not pity President Tinubu

“We have corruption, insecurity, and many problems confronting us … but don’t pity me. I asked for the job. I campaigned for it. No...

How long can Nigeria go under Tinubu?

I have always been fascinated by a phrase in the marital vows of Christians during wedding rituals: “till death do us part”! My candid...

Musing on the New Tax regime and clearance in Abuja

Abuja is the modern day Egypt. To receive services, you must tender your Tax clearance. Lol That was how Pharaoh made the Israelites to source...

Will Mr Tinubu Release Forensic Report on NDDC?

There is only one research document on abandoned, substandard and ‘ongoing’ projects in the Niger Delta. It is titled Citizen Report Card on Niger...

Oyebanji, Ekiti and Purposeful Leadership

Although the initial steps have to be taken by the individual, the picture of personality as having “power to uplift, power to depress, power...

Dele Giwa’s Assassination: 37 Years After

“Death is…the absence of presence…the endless time of never coming back…a gap you can’t see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes...

Once Upon A Life On The Dangerous Seas

The talk of oil thieves across the waters of the Niger Delta has made me to remember the journeys I undertook through the seas...

Surviving Nigeria’s Pan-Fulani President With Sunday Igboho

After a house detention spanning two years, Nigeria’s Sunday Igboho earlier this month finally secured his freedom from Benin Republic. He did not return...

Key transparency and accountability initiatives in Edo state

Nigeria has a national anti-corruption strategy which is currently being implemented, and states like Kano have already keyed into it. Nigeria is implementing its...

Insecurity and the Plight of Kidnap Victims (2)

Part 1 here Perceived callousness in society comes, chiefly, from the responses of the government to public issues as they affect individuals and the collective....

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Fraud Through the Church

For the past two days, I have had pure rage pouring out of me to the point where it was on the borderline of hatred!  I know an Evangelist should not feel this way, but I do.  Only yesterday I broke down crying before God...

An Open Letter to the Movement of the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars inflicted by their own sons...

Gender Roles in African Relationships

He told me an African woman is not worth visiting if she can't cook… yet he himself can't cook, and he wouldn't cook even if he could. His "shopping list" for a potential mate is one who will take care of him just as his mom took care of his dad, but one who is also financially independent...

Medical Emergency (Non)Response in Nigeria

You get accidentally knocked down by a car in...

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...

Gen Z, Religion, and the Morality Question

There is a widening revolution in our world spearheaded...

Blogging – The New Ebe Ano

So what have I discovered since I bought my house in Blogville? Nothing that I did not know already. I'm still heterosexual, I'm still sweet, I'm still not attracted to metrosexuals, I'm still a little bit of a clean freak, I'm still trying to experience romantic love in a romantic way...

Pius Anyim: The Symbol Of Our Politics

Pius Anyim is a contradiction that makes our politics the infamy for the electorate.

The Baby 'Business' In Igboland?

When an African man takes a wife and a year passes by without the wife giving birth, tongues would start wagging and in Nigeria in general and in Igboland in particular, people, relatives and friends alike, would begin to ask questions as to the 'sexual compatibility' and drive of the couple...

Moving Quickly On

Before we move on, we need to deal with a small matter of the newspaper report that the National Assembly is contemplating steps to nullify the elections...