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...

Discovering a Sense of Purpose: President Yar’adua’s Challenge

After almost eight months in office, and with his support team of advisers and cabinet ministers in place, there is still a sense of drift at the heart of the government. We are still none the wiser as to the policy direction of the government in a number of key areas...

Discovering a Sense of Purpose: President Yar’adua’s Challenge

After almost eight months in office, and with his support team of advisers and cabinet ministers in place, there is still a sense of drift at the heart of the government. We are still none the wiser as to the policy direction of the government in a number of key areas...

Uwazuruike and Ndiigbo that Agitate

I have always harboured the feeling that if ever there will be a man walking on his head, and walking backwards instead of forwards, such a person will come from Nigeria. It is only in Nigeria that the tail wags the dog and the cart pulls the horse...

Corruption Without The Immunity Clause

One of the most infuriating things about politics is the effort expended by politicians, pundits and partisans to hide very simple premises under layers and layers of self-serving bull crap...

Senator Aliyu's '419' Bombshell!

Last Thursday almost all national dailies in Nigeria reported the '419' bombshell dropped by Senator Nuhu Aliyu on the floor of the upper legislative chambers the previous day...

Another One Bites The Dust In Enugu!

We know that Mr. Chime’s case in Enugu would not be the last in this determined effort by the judiciary to dismantle the irredeemably corrupt edifices brazenly erected across the nation by Obasanjo and his equally murky-minded collaborators...

Failed Governance: Revealing The Crooked To Relieve The Hooked

Nigeria has no alternative to harnessing natural resources, promoting prosperity, protecting the right of every citizens and planning and or balancing the economy on freedom, equity and justice platform...

Failed Governance: Revealing The Crooked To Relieve The Hooked

Nigeria has no alternative to harnessing natural resources, promoting prosperity, protecting the right of every citizens and planning and or balancing the economy on freedom, equity and justice platform...

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Why Abiola Must have Died in Vain

It seems that Nigerians as a people are in perpetual slavery to self-deception. We are so very allergic to reality. Truth for us is whatever consolidates our unexamined prejudices. We are so allergic to the tides of reason that any challenge to the primitive fatalisms, lazy illusions, or invincible ignorance scaffolding our neurotic presumptions, sees us rising with unemotional ruthlessness...

The Mafia Paradigm

Bureaucracy is a systemic form of administration. Since there...

A Wall Street crash will affect Nigeria – Dele Ashiru

"Because Nigeria is a large market, the US stands to gain a lot from production activities tailored towards Nigeria, whereas Nigeria does not have the same opportunity to trade massively in the American market..." - Dele Ashiru

American Gunboat Diplomacy and Global Security

If they want peace, nations must avoid the pin...

The Sting of Death

In spite of the very many attempts to explain or subdue the power of death, the ‘death phenomenon’ has quite proven to be one thing that mankind cannot overcome...

Naija Notes: The Akwanga Debacle

Nigeria has become such a country that glorifies graft and celebrates ill-gotten wealth that “public service” has become an oxymoron, a blatant paradox when viewed against the warped tapestry of our national life...

Nigeria: The Road to Failure

Like many of the failed or failing states, elections in Nigeria do not provide a just and veritable platform for its teeming masses to change an abysmally bad system of governance...

Sheikh Gumi: The Insecurity In Nigeria’s Security

Too many enigmas strut humanity’s daily existential corridors. These...

My Sweet 16-Year Old Valentine

Her eyes met mine and didn't blink out of shyness and rather than look down like other damsels, she smiled gaily at me. Not sure I returned her smile but she innocently giggled at the sight of me. How could I flirt with an under aged...

Mandela: The Mind Of A Leader

He was a people's warrior. He never feared  the brutality of Apartheid, stayed strong and he remained focussed in his historic struggles for emancipation of the people of South Africa. He also remains an icon of inspiration to millions across the globe...