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...

Deconstructing Maurice Iwu's Tower of Fraud in Enugu

It should be stated that Enugu State, as it is now, presents a delicate political case that must be handled with full dexterity. It presents a hard choice between the triumph of a godless political godfather, his army of warring eunuchs and the vindication of an estranged godson...

Deja Vu (3): Nigeria Will Make It – Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu At His Best

Like him or hate him, Dim Emeka Odumegwu Ojukwu would forever remain an enigma in the Nigerian political horizon. One easily forgets that this great Nigerian was a career Civil Servant...

The Powerful Truth About The Power Paralysis

Nigeria is a Giant in Africa with the feet of a clay because of the prevalence of darkness in our national space. This persistent conundrum has robbed the nation of achieving its full potentials as destined for her by sheer providence...

Bringing Good Government To The People

Post-military national democratic leadership has been less effective than many would have wished. Nigeria’s federal system gives too little autonomy and authority to the nation’s thirty-six states...

Bringing Good Government To The People

Post-military national democratic leadership has been less effective than many would have wished. Nigeria’s federal system gives too little autonomy and authority to the nation’s thirty-six states...

The Coming Anarchy in Bayelsa State: The Governor’s Response

"Sabella, rather than the anarchy you fear coming to your state, I state boldly that we have broken into a golden age of peace and development..." - A rejoinder to the Sabella Abidde article

Are we Dangerously Intelligent? II: Umar Yar’Adua, The Unwilling President

I think the biggest question to all Nigerians at this critical stage in nation building should be “Is being indifferent part of being dangerously intelligent that we take the easiest way out...?"

The Mossad Affair: The Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko (2)

Dikko was one of the most powerful and notorious figures in the government of President Shagari between 1979 and 1983.  This is the second of a three part series which recounts the circumstances, timing and details of the kidnap...

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Remove The Moneybags, If I May Vote…

The great Nigerian statesman Nnamdi Azikiwe once wrote that every election is an advance auction of stolen goods. And he’s right...

As The Battle line Is Drawn on Fuel Subsidy…

Any visitor to Nigeria, observing the raging noisy altercation about the removal of the so called subsidy on petroleum products, would be led to so many faulty assumptions which the government has brought to bear on the issue...

Footprints In The Sand

No matter the trouble that comes with having a wife, I still think it is a good thing, I believe in the institution of marriage...

Third Term Politics: Dear Segun, Dear Sunday (Week 2)

In many ways, I regret my contributions to the development of our nation. I do not shy in taking responsibilities that I have also failed our people and nation. At my age and position occupied in the administration of the country – how come I need to utilize medical services of a foreign nation?

Globalizing Nigeria’s War On Terror: Matters Arising

Since the onset of the insurgency in some parts of Nigeria’s North, the U.S has consistently offered some low level – mainly technical and tactical- support to Nigeria’s security forces in the form of organizing regular capacity building seminars, workshops and other talk shops for officers and men of the armed forces...

Fashola Remains The Best Man for the Job!

Much has been said of Fashola's ground breaking achievements on such gigantic spheres as infrastructural renewal, urban transportation, health, education, security, environment, justice system, job creation, etc. but I think he excels equally in giving the much needed attention to the little things that matter...

Of Intelligence and Faith

Christians have chosen to be blind to the many varying proof and evidence that contradict pretty much everything that the bible claims...

Memo to a Tinubu

Dear Mr Tinubu, there are many very-well placed people...

Pharaoh crumbles under the pyramids

Kano Pillars football club of Kano, Nigeria may well be justified in branding themselves as 'Conquerors of Pharaoh's almighty army of Red Devils'...

Niger Delta: Sitting On Oil, Hungry For Bread! (2)

Ever since oil drilling got under way in the Niger Delta’s Oloibiri in the early 1950s, the communities that surround this stormy body of “oil-hood” have lived in dread of an environmental failure...