Nigeria Matters

Government Against The People

Nigeria is in grave danger more than ever. There is no running away from the dire fact that things are not working properly in the...

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...

Mediocrity Rules In The Ministry Of Justice

When it seems that sanity and confidence in the Nigerian legal system is being restored after the atrocities of the Abacha years, and the uncertainties of the Obasanjo Administration, we are now regressing...

Mediocrity Rules In The Ministry Of Justice

When it seems that sanity and confidence in the Nigerian legal system is being restored after the atrocities of the Abacha years, and the uncertainties of the Obasanjo Administration, we are now regressing...

Is Nigeria Safe From Terrorist Attack?

Given the strategic importance of Nigeria as the fifth largest supplier of oil to the US and the sixth largest producer of the product in the world, how immune to terror attacks are we?

Dinner From A Lagos Dustbin

It was a very beautiful evening in Lagos. I was in the car, waiting for my wife to get her bag from her office so we could go home together. Then, I saw him...

Dele Momodu And The Mad Man At Charles De Gaulle

Perhaps Mr. Momodu would have been excused over his blanket condemnation of immigration if he is not an immigrant himself...

Re: Ojo Maduekwe’s “Citizenship Diplomacy”

We are glad to know that at least a Nigerian Government is starting to take note and make moves to address the problems of Nigeria’s negative global image. It has long been overdue...

A Show of Shame in Bayelsa State?

The history of fighting corruption is a history of falsity. No one in Nigeria takes anti-corruption crusades seriously. The only people who get burnt and suffer the penalty are petty thieves, street urchins, and armed robbers...

Obasanjo: Beyond the Demonisation

I feel that criticisms of Obasanjo are grossly overdone, without due recognition for his achievements. I believe that despite Obasanjo’s obvious failures and personal weaknesses, he remains the greatest Nigerian leader to date...

Don't miss

Henry Okah: In Search Of Peace and Justice In The Niger Delta

Mr. Henry Imomotimi Okah has been in detention now for roughly 18 months. Following a high stake international drama, he was illegally apprehended, and then flown to Nigeria where he was again illegally detained...

Revitalizing Nigeria’s Foreign Exchange Market

In recent months, the Nigerian foreign exchange market has...

Goodluck Jonathan’s golden opportunity

What exactly did the great Chief Obafemi Awolowo do to have gained such status even after death? Like any good administrator, he simply managed what he had and used it to provide the very much needed infrastructure for his western region of Nigeria...

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...

Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…

Western imperialists headed by the United States want the devil to come back and complete his evil work and experiment on Nigeria and Nigerians. The Americans who have always claimed to be our friends could not find a worthy candidate or Nigerian in a country of 150 million to lead Nigeria in 2011 except Babangida...

Nigeria: Inflation spikes, Naira recoils and T-bills sale continues

The country’s inflation rate is not subsiding and with March's surging inflation rate at 12.1 percent, the partial removal of fuel subsidy has begun to clamp down on the economy. The inflation rate of February was at 11.9 percent...

A city afraid of its water…

Mama Ekene is a 35-year old mother of three - Wisdom, Chinwe and Junior. She lives behind Babangida Market in the Federal Housing Estate, FHA, Lugbe, Airport Road Abuja, with her husband Emeka. Every morning, she is roused from her bed by a persistent Ka-ka-ka-ka-ka, ka-ka-ka-ka-ka, ka-ka-ka-ka-ka sound...

The African Soccer Jungle Gets Ready To Rumble

From 21:00 (West African Standard Time) on Saturday January...

Xenophobia and the Imperativeness of Nipping the Growth of a Monster in the Bud

One of the things I have learnt, first as...

Adieu Ojukwu: The Enigmatic Warrior and Conscience of The Voiceless

As Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Dikedioramma, Eze Igbo gburugburu returns to the timeless terrestrial, the Ndigbo will forever be awed and serenaded by the aura, bravery, charisma, confidence, defiance, intellect, mythology and vision of Ikemba...