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...

April 2007 Election: Whose Vote? How Void?

There is no gainsaying the fact that those who had initially doubted the capacity of the Yar'Adua administration in improving the lot of ordinary Nigerians and moving the country forward are having a second view...

April 2007 Election: Whose Vote? How Void?

There is no gainsaying the fact that those who had initially doubted the capacity of the Yar'Adua administration in improving the lot of ordinary Nigerians and moving the country forward are having a second view...

Danjuma Vs Ironsi: A Widow's Curse!

Picking holes in the assertions credited to General Danjuma in "the Guardian" interview Mrs Victoria Aguiyi-Ironsi described Danjuma as "shameless coward and a terrible liar…"

Justice Ogebe and Justice at the Tribunal

At a time the Nigerian Judiciary in general is rising up to the occasion of doing justice to countless electoral injustices of April 2007 the whole world awaits the verdict from the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal which Justice Ogebe heads…

Economic Difficulty: Are Strangers Ruling Us?

Political, ethnic and even religious violence and to a certain extent organized crime, remain the strategic consideration and option for several relevant political gamblers in this country…

Presidency: The Danger of Shagarinization

It is possible to predict prophetically the future direction of the Umaru Yar’Adua government by examining Shagari’s government because both are eerily similar in their creation, nature and style…

Presidency: The Danger of Shagarinization

It is possible to predict prophetically the future direction of the Umaru Yar’Adua government by examining Shagari’s government because both are eerily similar in their creation, nature and style…

Kanu Agabi’s Bad Verse On Lagos

So many Nigerians, especially Lagosians, were miffed by the recent statement attributed to one of Obasanjo’s choice minions, Kanu Agabi that Lagos is an evil state…

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On Leadership

The true test of leadership is the ability of the individual to rise up to the occasion; to devise methods and systems and manage resources to effectively address certain challenges and enhance development...

Nigerian High Commission Versus NIDO-Malaysia: Threat Of Mass Arrest Of Members

The last may not have been heard about the simmering crisis between the Nigeria High Commission, Malaysia, under the headship of Ambassador Peter Anegbeh and the Executives of the Non-governmental Organization of Nigerians in Diaspora, NIDO Malaysia, in the South-East Asian country...

NYSC at 52: Issues and Perspectives

In 1999, when I went to the Faculty of...

Sold Out: Black British Billionaires

The Rich List 2012 passed the test of prediction. I am yet to be formally declared a prophet. My confident intuition paid off. Pages after pages, I saw smiling white faces. Some caressing their yachts moored on the Pacific oceans. They look robust, real and ready. They look beautiful, bouncy, bright and brilliant. Why not? They are the risk-taking, movers and shakers of this sceptre isle called Britain...

From Guardians Of Truth To Architects Of Deception: How Nigeria’s Intelligentsia Betrayed The Nation

Once upon a time, Nigeria’s intelligentsia stood as the...

Defining Christianity and Christ’s Call Biblically Again

This is sad, very sad: The ‘church’ has become unimaginably too worldly today; and the world has become unthinkably too churchy today. The ‘church’ has given the world mere religion as against Christianity...

Demystifying the “Exoticness” of the African Fashion Model

The African Model for decades has and is still viewed as an ugly duckling. The rationale is that she is "too tall" and "too skinny" for a woman. Africa and particularly African men generally view an attractive woman to be one that is shorter and plumper...

The Nigerian Shame In London II: ‘Kongi’ Soap Doesn’t Wash Off Shame

The BBC got so much commendation each time they exposed bad Nigerians, hence so much search light is placed on us. Because of the recent development it has become a way of life for Nigerians to be the most delayed and interrogated by the police when stopped on the streets of London...

Nigerian Big-Shots, Big Egos and Sugar-Daddies

There is something about small and narrow-minded people that vexes me. East or West, North or South, they all have three things in common: haughtiness, roguery, and the propensity to subjugate the common man...

Time to Say Goodbye to Bad Leaders

At fifty years of independence, it is now time to change the way we think and feel for the better. It is now time for us to respond, unite and vote for the best leaders and say goodbye to inept and corrupt leaders...