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...

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…

Poverty Relief: More Programs, More Pains

Government should not presume that they know what will benefit the poor better than the poor themselves. When a program has been failing each time it is attempted, the ideal thing to do would be to study the past attempts to see where the mistakes lies…

Poverty Relief: More Programs, More Pains

Government should not presume that they know what will benefit the poor better than the poor themselves. When a program has been failing each time it is attempted, the ideal thing to do would be to study the past attempts to see where the mistakes lies…

Dasuki, Why Hath Thou Forsaken Me?

Before my MTN Nigeria final stage employment interview at the famous Philip consulting centre in the UBA house at Marina, Lagos, I never had a face to face conversation with a Caucasian...

Immunity Clause: To Stay Or Not To Stay

It is not hard to see that corrupt political leaders will make effort to see that the immunity clause is retained in the Constitution. That is the cloak under which they have been hiding for years and perpetrating their crimes against the Nigerian people...

Immunity Clause: To Stay Or Not To Stay

It is not hard to see that corrupt political leaders will make effort to see that the immunity clause is retained in the Constitution. That is the cloak under which they have been hiding for years and perpetrating their crimes against the Nigerian people...

$10 Billion Darkness: Obasanjo’s Expensive Gift To Nigerians

Any probe that fails to unearth how U$10 billion could only purchase us darkness instead power supply that would have illuminated our lives would be useless...

The Future Is Bright

A new generation is rising. A generation that strongly believes in the new Nigerian project. Young minds that will re- build the fallen walls of Nigeria. They are springing up from all angles...

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Nigeria: From The Outside Looking In

If you can't convince the ones currently at home to cease seeking for the first opportunity to bail out, how will you assure the ones outside they stand a chance of survival if they return?

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Love And Be Loved

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Jeunalists have replaced journalists in Nigeria. There used to be...

Tom Ikimi’s Suspension: A Joke Taken Too Far

"It is better to offer no excuse than a...

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...

President Buhari’s Speech on my Mind

On a day like this, I remember President Muhammadu...

Chatting Across Borders

Everything is grounded in the country for now...the usual rituals of fuel scarcity at Xmas...Umoru is lying down half dead in a Saudi hospital and the country too lying comatose here...

Jega Goes Jaga-jaga

Confusion has taken over the entire land of Nigeria. To...