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...

Israel And Nigeria: The Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko (Conclusion)

Over the past few weeks I have been revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984.  This is the concluding part of the series…

Israel And Nigeria: The Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko (Conclusion)

Over the past few weeks I have been revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984.  This is the concluding part of the series…

Is This The Final Blow For Andy Ubah As Soludo “Enters” The Race?

I believe many keen observers of event in my beloved Anambra state will be wondering what next for Andy Ubah after the Supreme Court Ruling that struck out his case...

Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu And A Matter Of A Title And A Rank

Whatever the real reasons for honouring the great Ojukwu, I suspect that buried within the subtext of that honorific title ‘Dim,’ is a hidden meaning which only those with ‘ears to hear’ and ‘eyes to see’ will be able to decipher...

Everything Good Is Coming

The lights are still out, the roads are bad, the politicians are still stealing money but do look for what lies beneath. Nigerians are turning the corner, slowly and surely and you don’t want to miss the emerging opportunity this land of sleeping giants presents...

Is Obasanjo To Blame For State Of The Nation?

It is only through a genuine democracy that Nigerians can make a true choice. Unfortunately, these choices are sometimes rubbished by fraud, violence, intimidation and partisanship by the electoral body...

Is Obasanjo To Blame For State Of The Nation?

It is only through a genuine democracy that Nigerians can make a true choice. Unfortunately, these choices are sometimes rubbished by fraud, violence, intimidation and partisanship by the electoral body...

The Decline in Courtship, Celebrating Crooks and Other Thoughts

It is as if Nigeria is bereft of honest people. Day after day, all we hear about are corrupt and thieving governors and minister and other high ranking public officials. It is as if you don’t have to be smart to be somebody...

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Instigationism And Conflict Entrepreneurship

Every violent conflict has its beneficiaries. These beneficiaries are the people who hide behind iron masks to stoke the fire of violence; the secret players behind the scene; the evil hands hidden in velvet gloves waiting to pounce on any opportunity presented by war to make profit...

Our Poor Economy: The Need To Chart A New Course

Unfortunately not many Nigerians believe the economic conditions are much better now than they were before Obasanjo's emergence in the political scene in 1999...

Patrick Osagie Eholor…Apolitically Pro-People Humanitarian

Of the apothegms employed by thinkers in their classification...

Destroying Ibadan

Why would OBJ fight for the unity of Nigeria between 1966 and 1970, only to preside over its systematic disintegration between 1999 and 2007?

One Country, Two Presidents

Nigeria is about the only country I know in the world where things are done illegally and a majority of the citizens keep mum. Almost everyone accept illegality as a norm...

When the Hustling is Over!

Tomorrow is just hours away, yet no man seems to know what it holds. All the hustling, hassles of life and ‘the survival of the fittest’ game that has been the bane of society is all about how to survive tomorrow – those few hours ahead. For some tomorrow never even comes...

Police Barracks Are Collapsing

Do the dirty looking barracks leave any impression or affect the psyche of the Nigerian Police? Is this dirty feature just one that occurs in the city of Lagos or does it have nationwide implications?

Ogboru, Uduaghan’s Poor Rejoinder and this Writer

It won’t be long before these Ibori-Uduaghan boys know the cost of sycophancy and what it means to create the Augean stable they have created in Delta while living in sickening opulence. I write that Delta may be free...

Nigeria: Forgery and Perjury Incorporated!

In Nigeria, God blessed us with huge mineral deposits and arable land that multiplies fruits and foodstuffs in harvest time. Yet, hunger stalks the land with millions of our people going to bed hungry...

Abuja Opera 2009 and the Wait for the Special Guest of Honour

Barring the lateness of the Special Guest of Honour, Operabuja 2009 lived up to its high billing and once again satisfied the longings of many who have had enough of comedy shows and music concerts where DJs helped artists to mime their songs...