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...

Ogebe Verdict: Celebration To Reason

Yar'Adua has gained hugely in stature and his style of ruling the country...he has carved out a support base…

What Future?

Are the current leaders the best foot we can put forward? Is any willing to get off the fence and out of their comfort zones? Can this generation make changes to Nigerian political schematics?

Justice Or Public Policy: The Yar’adua Ruling

The recent ruling of the Court of Appeal, acting as the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal that decided that President Umaru Yar’Adua was validly elected on 21 April 2007 surely merits comments by Nigerians...

Corruption Fight In Political Disguise

If ethical governance is narrowly defined as the constant attempts by governments to legitimize themselves through the establishment of a transparent and honest leadership, the battle against corruption is one of the major indicators of shaping it...

Orji Uzor Kalu, 'Mmadu Oha Nile', MON!

Orji Uzor Kalu has since argued that left for him Olusegun Obasanjo should be made to go back to prison to continue a second term of imprisonment for his many crimes against the Nigerian state and Nigerians...

This Nation, The Crying People And The Crowned Order

We are intoxicated with politics. The premium on political power is so high that we are prone to take the most extreme measures in order to win and maintain political power...

The End Justifies The Means?

Do I have the right to say the insanity of the political developments at home are better than seeking asylum papers? That it does not matter the nature and manner of the means, the end justifies it?

Danjuma: Lamentations Of A Bloody Traitor

I know that Danjuma is suffering the inner torture that comes ordinarily from his penchant for treachery and betrayal. He is dying with the blood of Ironsi on his very bloody hand...

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Suave Jimi Lawal who could charm the birds off their perch with his easy manners and pretentious airs became a permanent fixture in Obasanjo's supposed attempt to 'organize' the Nigerian Diaspora. Jimi was a founding member of the Obasanjo-created Nigerians in Diaspora Organization, NIDO, and a member of its boards in America and in Europe...

God Is On Facebook

Facebook is fast becoming a medium for self-promotion, for grandiose statements, for keeping and for settling scores, for venting their frustrations, and for shamelessly espousing their religiosity...

Terror, Terrorists And Terrorism

It should be noted that in the modern era, the United States “invented” terrorism just that it preferred to name her actions “Covert Operations”

Vote My Tribe Or I Kill You

Democracy has been turned into coup at the polls...

Is the Nigerian Judiciary Robotic Constrictive in the Corruption War?

What is the purpose of law? The purpose of law in Nigeria certainly, cannot be to give ringing endorsements to persons who have been censured, persons who have received public opprobrium at home and abroad...

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Zik’s Avenue is arguably the most hurly-burly road in...

Tribute to a Living Legend: Chief Dr. Orlando Owoh

In his over forty years musical career, Chief Dr. Oladipupo Owoh, popularly called Orlando Owoh has without doubt proved to be one of the greatest musicians that have come out of Nigeria...

The Nation Dangles as Yar'Adua Pines Away

A sneak preview of the fiery war that awaits us in the aftermath of Yar'Adua's complicated health state is the internecine power struggle that has started and which threatens to blow into a full fledged war should the president cease to function in power...

Nobody Is Safe: Recognising the Threat of IDP Situations In Nigeria

The large number of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) occasioned...

Toke Makinwa, Tiwa Savage and Nigerians

Some of the hottest conversations in the Nigerian social...