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...

Depoliticizing The Zero Tolerance For Corruption

What accounts for the rampant corruption in the country? To understand the existence of this difficult and complex social canker, we must examine its historical character...

Depoliticizing The Zero Tolerance For Corruption

What accounts for the rampant corruption in the country? To understand the existence of this difficult and complex social canker, we must examine its historical character...

Local Government And The Need For Grassroot Development

Any person who wants to know why the nation is not developing as rapidly as it should, should visit any of the local government areas...

Politicians As Prostitutes: The Gain In Shagarism

In Nigeria politics has no deep meaning or import outside helping known crooks and criminals seize control of instruments of power and authority from where they organize robbery forays...

Sule Lamido And His Arrant Rantings

Recently, Lamido was reported to have belched hot venom and sulphuric acid on all those that refuse to buy into his come-and-eat feeling that Obasanjo, his father and benefactor is the best thing to have happened to Nigeria...

Mark my words, Nigeria and Africa shall be free

What will it take to free Nigeria? Can one man do it? Can we do it together? Should the will of the majority be held perpetually in bondage by the tyranny of a thieving minority?

Masquerades and Jokers as Governors in Bayelsa State

Bayelsa is today a cathedral of broken dreams, a valley of pain.

It is a state where political incest, debauchery, and cardinal sins have become a way of life...

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...

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An Absolute Necessity

Abuja could be a beautiful place if truly enhanced with the money currently going into the pockets of the few...

PDP’S Madhouse: A Sign of Hope for Nigeria

Since time immemorial, Nigerians have cried to God for vindication and intervention in the affairs of the country, and the rescue of the nation from the strong forces of opportunists called politicians...

As Onovo Becomes The Second Igbo Man to Be IGP

Ogbonnaya Onovo is now a star. He’s one of the few Nigerians who have had the privilege of enjoying national support, sympathy and yes, having the entire nation fight for him to get to the position he wanted...