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...

Okey Ndibe versus Andy Uba

To say that Dr. Okey Ndibe does not think much of Dr. Andy Uba is an understatement. Heck, he doesn’t even think Uba has good sense, common sense, or an enlightened mind. He considers Uba a fraud...

An Open Letter To The Attorney General, Micheal Aondokaa (SAN)

...You seem to have neglected, since your assumption as the Chief Law Officer, the place of public opinion and the mood of Nigerians as regards corruption...

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...

Why Oyo State Is Not Working And Cannot Work

Nigeria’s political and moral situations as a whole has always been that of bringing out the pessimism and negativity in most of her people, such that we find it very difficult to celebrate achievement and excellence in all spheres of human activities in our country...

Why Oyo State Is Not Working And Cannot Work

Nigeria’s political and moral situations as a whole has always been that of bringing out the pessimism and negativity in most of her people, such that we find it very difficult to celebrate achievement and excellence in all spheres of human activities in our country...

Andoakaa, Nigeria’s Public Enemy Number One!

The impact of pervasive corruption in Nigeria, its impact on daily life, its magnitude and far reaching ramifications on public infrastructure, the overwhelming permeation of corruption on how life is lived in Nigeria is glaringly obvious...

The Gun Revolution In Nigeria

What Nigeria needs now is a true revolution a la Phillipines or Romania which would terminate the circus political show and send those responsible for our misery to the world beyond...

Endlessly Awaiting Trial in Nigeria; A National Shame!

Corruption is 90 percent responsible for needless detention. Detention is used by corrupt police officers to extort money from those who are innocent and know that they are innocent...

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Fuel Subsidy As a Cure All Panacea to Nigeria's Problems

Once again, the nation's blood pressure has been revved up by our rulers and we are being fatally told to await the unraveling of what should be the biggest increase in the price of fuel...

'One Nigeria': To Be Or Not To Be? (4)

Do you want your ethnic group to be part of a country even if the probability of your ethnic group producing the president is practically equal to zero despite the fact that your contribution in terms of human and mineral resources is substantial?

Nigeria is Bleeding Profusely!

If you want to settle down to savor a...

The Pastoral Fulani Inferno and Mr President’s Silence

The Fulani (Fula, Fulah, Fulbe, Fellata) is one of...

Boko Haram: Changing Dynamics of an Insurgency

This piece analyses the burgeoning intensity of violence in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria, consequent to the apocalyptic campaigns of Boko Haram – a fundamentalist Islamist group that has been engaging the country’s security forces in an internecine war of attrition since 2010...

Man, The Wildest Beast

I have often tried to reconstruct the scene in my mind: three Youth Corp members on their knees, scared out of their wits; fifty or more ferociously armed guys dancing round them, chanting Allah Akhbar...

Rethinking President Obasanjo

Long before Nelson Mandela, President Obasanjo was the man who was associated with high standards and probity.Somehow he threw all that away. How? Why?

Between Obasanjo And Democracy

If election figures emerged from areas where some people did not exercise their franchise, the certificate given by INEC to Obasanjo is flawed...

Private Refineries? Never! Unless…

In the Nigerian context, newspapers do not enjoy greater intellectual respect than the Guardian, yet their editorial of the 24th April titled “The Proposed 2 Refineries” is a case in point of an unexpected shallow and simplistic evaluation of a serious problem…

IGBO Presidency and Igbo Question within the Nigerian Framework: Matters arising

          The Nigeria political landscape is undergoing the farming season...