Nigeria Matters

The Yoruba ‘Omoluabi’ Ethos And Nigeria’s Leadership

The Yoruba people in the Southwest of Nigeria are deeply immersed in culture, history, ideology, and other guiding principles that define their existence. This...

Southwest and the power of early preparation

The Southwest, although it now laudably has a Development Commission, ought to project a future that will match the best days of the past....

El-Rufai’s Detention: Justice, Political Vendetta Or A Test Of Nigeria’s Rule Of Law?

The continuing legal battle involving former Kaduna State Governor, NasirAhmad El-Rufai, has become much larger than the fate of one politician. Ithas developed into...

The Paradox Of Corruption And Patriotism

To say that the country called Nigeria is a conundrum is a gross understatement. To both its people and foreigners, it is a country that is, in its extremity, baffling, frustrating, annoying and uncivilised...

Lamidi Adedibu And The Ibadan Monarch

The ordinary people of Ibadanland potentially will be the great losers in the event of full-scale atrocities between the Olubadan and his Ekarun...

The Attorney General's Power-Grab Misplaced Priorities

Whose agenda would it be to cripple the EFCC and ICPC? Who would benefit? Why would the first major outing by Nigeria's Minister for Justice have created the impression that he was set to give corrupt public officials some sort of get-out-of-jail-free card?

Who Cares if Port Harcourt Burns?

Both the Army and the government knew that some elements within the society had or were grooming private armies. They knew who funded these armies. They knew their commanders and benefactors...

Lamidi Adedibu's Braggaddacio

Adedibu knows how to play crude and rude politics the Nigerian way. He understands the psyche of followers and the peculiar failure-prone corrupt nature of our leaders at the national level...

Abuja: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria?

If you are ever asked to name the capital of Nigeria and you mention Abuja, I am afraid to tell you that you would be wrong because Abuja is not the capital of Nigeria...

Abuja: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria?

If you are ever asked to name the capital of Nigeria and you mention Abuja, I am afraid to tell you that you would be wrong because Abuja is not the capital of Nigeria...

Abuja: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria?

If you are ever asked to name the capital of Nigeria and you mention Abuja, I am afraid to tell you that you would be wrong because Abuja is not the capital of Nigeria...

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Abba Kyari and the Nigerian Culture of Pseudo-Outrage

Nigerians are a very funny lot. Not only have we...

Nigerians in the Diaspora, Nigeria's Worst Enemies?

Rather than making sweeping remarks at Nigerians in the Diaspora, Nigerian leaders should demonstrate genuine love for our land and our people by talking less and acting more in making life worth living for Nigerians...

The Dishonourable Africans

In case you are one of those who do not believe that our world is sick and in need of a divine healing, please pass over this essay...

Morolake Akinosun: A Nigerian Hero

Morolake Akinosun is a Nigerian-American. Her parents are surely...

Still on the 2026 Osun Governorship Election

By Abiodun Akaraogun As the August 8, 2026, Osun governorship...

Nigeria’s Mental Health Conundrum And The Way Forward For Africa’s Most Populous Country

In November, 2018, the Federal Ministry of Health posited...

The curious case of Benjamin Button

In my life I have found reality to be far, far stranger than fiction and that art often imitates life and not the other way round. I guess I love this movie so much because there were so many things to learn from it...

A Naija Prince In Kenya

Was thinking of coming back to Nigeria with an angel from Nairobi....but now I know that beauty is not deeper than the skin's hues...

Spike Lee and Nollywood

I agree that there is room for improvement in Nollywood productions, as indeed with anything else, I do feel that Spike Lee’s Nollywood remarks were suffocatingly patronising, condescending, paternalistic and hubristic; characteristics which he has often detested and decried in the many of the antagonists with whom he has crossed swords over the years...

Nigeria: To be or not to be?

If breaking up Nigeria will make you, your family and ethnic group live 'at least' 10 times better than now in the next 10 years, are you ready to support the break up of Nigeria now?