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...

Are You A Proud Nigerian?

It amazes me when I hardly see the Nigerian flag which is supposed to be a symbol of our love for Nigeria everywhere…

Strategic Factors and Options: The Credibility of the Ijaw Nation

The lack of political responsibility, accountability,  transparency, development and performance, in terms of delivering goods and services to the people is leading to questions, both internally and externally, about the capability of Ijaw political leaders to captain the ship of development and modernization…

Strategic Factors and Options: The Credibility of the Ijaw Nation

The lack of political responsibility, accountability,  transparency, development and performance, in terms of delivering goods and services to the people is leading to questions, both internally and externally, about the capability of Ijaw political leaders to captain the ship of development and modernization…

Strategic Factors and Options: The Credibility of the Ijaw Nation

The lack of political responsibility, accountability,  transparency, development and performance, in terms of delivering goods and services to the people is leading to questions, both internally and externally, about the capability of Ijaw political leaders to captain the ship of development and modernization…

Development Strategy for Bayelsa State

In Bayelsa State, things are, for the most part, stagnant. Billions and billions of dollars since 1999 under two administrations, one cannot point to noteworthy progress in the state. Whatever development there is is mostly limited to the state capital, Yenagoa…

419 Senators: Beyond Aliyu’s Apology

How can a Senator of the Federal Republic elect to conceal very vital information that would be most useful in the sanitization the National Assembly?

From Obasanjo To Yar’adua: Has Anything Changed?

It would task the most ingenuous minds to locate where exactly the Yar’Adua presidency is headed. It would stretch the greatest genius to even hazard a guess on where exactly this regime’s destination point is located...

‘Tis The Season For Scandals

Scandals, scandals. We do not even know what is going on in the states and local governments. The ones we know and read of are associated to the federal level. And there are more to come, I bet you...

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Kano, Nigeria vs Pfizer Pharmaceuticals: An Update

Pfizer's atrocious clinical trials in Nigeria are reminiscent of the infamous Tuskegee experiment on African Americans as human guinea pigs...

Biofuels in Nigeria: Ensuring a Cautionary Approach

The biofuels production in Nigeria utilizing food crops, or cultivated on high-value land and cleared forest will impact negatively on environmental quality...

Nigeria at 51: An Elegy to A Frustrating Country

I normally don’t join in celebrating Nigeria’s Independence Day anywhere I am in the world; at least not since the late 70s. I also do not write the usual piece analyzing our problems and preferring solutions...

PDP's web of double-standards the vehicle riding against Nwodo

The event that saw to the emergence of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as the Peoples Democratic Party's national chairman was a two-horse race between him and the former National Vice Chairman, Mr. Chukwu Ozichukwu...

Brainstorming the uniqueness of American Politics

It is sensational to see America the beautiful from the air and to observe its sheer size, and those wonderful highways and their network of fly overs, not to talk of the sheer beauty of American cities at night power...

Nigeria: Things Can Only Get Better!

As we are about to turn the page of 2007 for a new one, it is imperative we remind ourselves of what went wrong in our body polity in order to be able to forge ahead into the new year...

INEC in the Eye of the Storm Again! The Curious Case of Prof. Amupitan’s CV

When Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) was nominated by...

Ubiquitous Thieves, Cosmopolitan Rogues

Like Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Posterity is blowing across Nigeria's high places. Secrets are being revealed and sealed deals are becoming unsealed. At a snail speed, blatant liars are being openly ridiculed...

How Will Jesus Vote?

When confronted with the alternatives, will Jesus vote for the party that supports some limited form of gay marriage or the one that opposes it, yet have its upper echelons of leadership enmeshed in one homosexual relationship or the other?

Implications of Bad Leadership and the Collapse of Global Oil on Nigeria’s Economy

Since the discovery of oil in the South-South region...