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...

Ekwueme At 75: Time For Statesmanship

For some time now, I have tried to contain my angst against the activities and rudderless, missionless and visionless political drift of the former Vice president, Alex Ekwueme...

What Befitting Epitaph Should We Give Late Hon. Dr. Aminu Safana?

Dr. Safana had been trained in some of the best universities of the world. A first class brain, a medical doctor, one with the finest fingers who became the fan, the umbrella-carrying-town crier and chief supporter of a common hair dresser...

The Banana Skins Called Ibori, Etteh And Odili

The problem is not so much that the government is winning the war against corruption, but the impression that the war itself is not being fought with sincerity of purpose, the right tools and resources or seriousness...

The Banana Skins Called Ibori, Etteh And Odili

The problem is not so much that the government is winning the war against corruption, but the impression that the war itself is not being fought with sincerity of purpose, the right tools and resources or seriousness...

Politics of Generals in Nigeria

The politics of Generals in the Nigerian democratic evolution constitutes enough ground for one to be apprehensive...

PDP’s Monument Of Shame

The PDP is a loose confederate of desperate fortune hunters, bloody fiends and deadly cabal of disparate tendencies aiming at each other’s throat for undue advantage...

In Defence of Okey Ndibe on Andy Uba [A Response to Jerome Azubuko and Chuka Nwosu]

Between an erudite and accomplished University professor, Okey Ndibe, and a failed politician and villainous high-school drop-out, whose intellectual incapableness makes him to inferiorly but pretentiously don the accoutrement of a PhD, "Dr" Andy Uba, who is the failure?

Nuhu Ribadu: A True Defender of The Rule of Law

Winning the war against corruption is of substantive significance. Winning the war against corruption will determine Nigeria's place in the world says Nuhu Ribadu...

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Obasanjo, Etteh and the PDP

Even though the president has repeatedly stated his zero tolerance for corruption, his immediate predecessor’s support for known corrupt political figures in the present dispensation might be his greatest problem...

Senility and Governance

Ending monarchical un-meritocracy in Nigeria's political terrain Recently, my friend...

The Asika Phenomenon

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Controversy is the author of history. The...

Why Is Oshiomhole So Obsessed With Fayemi?

Former Edo State Governor who graduated to become the...

Ebi’s Story

"I suddenly realised that the whole bed was covered in blood and water. By the time an ambulance took me and Joseph to hospital, our baby was dead..."

TB Joshua: A False Prophet In The Synagogue?

Is TB Joshua a fake prophet in the Synagogue? Or put in another way, do we have a modern false Prophet exploiting the gullibility of Nigerians for his own prosperous end?

As We Observe, NOT Celebrate, Our 53rd Independence Anniversary

For me, our problems started with the military’s insidious and invidious incursion into governance in Nigeria. They caused the majority of our problems today. They divided us; they misruled us; they stole from us...

Paul Mamza's Nigeria's Unsung Heroes Series

It is refreshingly different and a welcome relief to witness a Nigerian Public Intellectual of Paul Mamza's stature discuss a Nigerian patriot, even though General Idiagbon is no longer with us...

Igwe Osita Agwuna 111: Time We Honored Greatness

It is rather fortuitous that Igwe Osita Agwuna 111,...

Date Me Jeje, Date Me Tender

I have never, ever been on a date.  For someone who can describe a perfect date even while in the middle of REM sleep, it is rather appalling that I have never, ever been on a date...