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...

Nigeria, Where Is Thy Sense Of Outrage?

Nigeria is at crossroads; the year 2008 will not be remembered for the grievous actions of her leaders, but for the continued intolerable inaction of her citizens...

Smuggling In Idi-Iroko, A Way Of Life

‘’Everything you call illegitimate is legitimate here in Idi-Iroko’’, a source who did not want to be named insists. According to him, what takes place in Idi-Iroko is a mere reflection of what happens at the high seas where a lot of illegal oil bunkering takes place...

Options For Nigeria’s Political Development

As far as human nature is concerned, one cannot foist on a disunited people, an assumed consensual marriage of convenience that is devoid of any of love and respect. This is to sow the seed of discord...

Options For Nigeria’s Political Development

As far as human nature is concerned, one cannot foist on a disunited people, an assumed consensual marriage of convenience that is devoid of any of love and respect. This is to sow the seed of discord...

On The Osun Forensic Controversy

What is happening with the forensic question in Osun State currently shows that this country needs to make haste to sanitize both the electoral process and the judiciary or else we are walking straight into the ways of Kenya...

Governor Ohakim And The Otimkpu Phenomenon

Nigeria is full of base fellows. It is a haven for all manner of dishonourable and ignoble people. So there is no point saying that we are about to witness a change of attitude or mentality...

What Manner Of Awards?

Very recently, a young man approached a friend and asked him if he needed a chieftaincy title? He answered in the positive and was told it would cost only N25,000...

Electricity Situation: The Promising Kickoff and The Probable Kickback!

Corruption is rampant in the new electricity companies - six generating companies, 11 distributors and one transmitting - and little is being done to check it...

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Crimes, Courts And The Media

When the media goes after the accused person, everyone in the defense team becomes the devil’s advocate. They are taunted by the public and forsaken by their friends and their families are made to carry a bag of guilt...

Ekiti State: What? Who will Upset the Applecart?

In a Special State Broadcast on Tuesday, Governor Biodun...

The Eviction of Donald Trump

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When ‘Development’ Is Not Enough…

The April 2015 elections are just around the corner. Without a shade of doubt, one of the issues that would form and inform the choice of who to vote for, and who not to vote for, would be the question of development...

Naira Redenomination: Winners and Losers

In every Sabo and near transit centers are men and families who will lose their means of livelihood if Soludo had succeeded in making the naira convertible and strengthened its rate of conversion...

CKC, Onitsha: An Incubator of National Prosperity

By Dr Ray Emeka Onwuelo Christ the King College (CKC),...

High tension carnage (3)

It is hazardous to live under high tension transmission lines. Research has proved it accounts for reduced sperm count in the workers who regularly service the line, that fewer children are born to high tension wire workers compared to other people...

Why Do African Men Go Home to Marry?

The African male is perplexing. He can be enigmatic. He can be everything and sometimes, nothing. He can be sweet and loving and caring and benevolent and at the same time oppressive. His life is full of contradictions. In so many ways, he is a wounded animal as a result of his historical past...

Princewill Didn't Lose Sight

Princewill campaigned for Governor Amaechi’s re-election in the April 2011 elections so that someday somebody would campaign for him to become the governor of Rivers State...

If This Government Should Know The Anger Of Nigerians…

Nigeria is oil rich and yet most people live in poverty. Where is all the wealth going? Conventional wisdom is that Nigerians are being cheated out of their due by their leaders…