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...

Nigeria And Israel: The Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko

Over the next few weeks, I will be revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984...

Tribute to Tom Ilube, a Rare Gem

In the Nigeria of today, much like in the 80's and 90's, the notoriety of 'PHD' a.k.a. Pull Him Down syndrome cannot be denied by anyone. Some people go to any length to undo their superiors...

Farewell Mallam Ribadu

It was always going to end in tears. I mean the eventual displacement of Mallam Ribadu from the EFCC. There was a certain sense of inevitability about his removal from office...

Refreshing Breezes Blowing From The Election Tribunals

We thought that all hell was going to break loose again when the election tribunal in Anambra state upturned the purported ‘victory’ of one of Olusegun Obasanjo’s godsons, Andy Uba in favour of the incumbent, Peter Obi...

Who is Mr. Speaker going to speak for?

The time has come for Nigerians to begin to express a good measure of pessimism concerning those who put themselves up for public office. And that is because the Nigerian leadership project is like one that has been hijacked by a virus introduced into the political space...

Road Maintenance: Government Task Or Citizens' Tax?

The recent proposed 5% user tax on petroleum products as a means of sourcing funds for sustained road maintenance activities in the country deserves second thought...

Road Maintenance: Government Task Or Citizens' Tax?

The recent proposed 5% user tax on petroleum products as a means of sourcing funds for sustained road maintenance activities in the country deserves second thought...

The Truth Has To Be Said Always

When we write on issues we feel should be considered to take Nigeria forward, what we get is negative feedback from people who purport to be more patriotic than us...

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Economic transformation, the Chinese way

The truth is that every great people must first lose their direction several times before finally finding the right direction. That's how every fallen great nation can rise to greatness...

The Need to Grieve

I am intrigued with the grieving process.It is not some morbid fascination of mine.It's just that I don't recollect ever being able to grieve properly.I am never appropriately upset at the death of a loved one...

High-Octane Inaugural Lecture of Prof Ernest Igwe at UNIZIK

It was an Inaugural Lecture with a difference. The...

Why Are We Crying? We Are All Guilty

I am sitting at my computer, transfixed by the images on the internet of the grieving parents and relatives of the over one hundred people that died in Port Harcourt at the weekend in an aeroplane crash. And we are all responsible...

Look beyond the Presidency

Nigeria has three major problems troubling her at the moment: Police, PHCN and PDP. Is it a coincidence that these entities start with the letter “P”? I doubt it...

Will Oshiomhole Survive Edo State

Everyone with an eye on the ground watching the nation’s political landscape knew that November 11 was pregnant. And when the day delivered in the form of a judgment by the appeal court in Benin City, Edo State, it became clear that there was nothing anybody could do anymore...

When Will These Insults Abate?

It is understood all over the world that one of the features of democracy is freedom of speech and allied freedoms. However, certain freedoms become an aberration given conditions and backgrounds surrounding their manifestations...

Much ado about Governor Adeleke’s Rumoured Defection

The main thing about Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun...

The Role of Traditional Rulers in an Emerging Democratic Nigeria

Anyone who has had the opportunity of interacting closely with our traditional rulers will readily agree that some of them are sound and first class individuals...

Political Transparency and the Judicial System

Legal findings and developments in Nigeria as it relates to annulments and replacements of governors and other fraudulently elected officials in the INEC conducted elections of 2007 have created jubilations and validations of the need to accelerate as best possible the core principles of good democratic processes...