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...

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...

Between (their) Harcourt and (our) Port Harcourt

Extreme violence has given birth to chaos and anarchy in Port Harcourt. For the past week or thereabout, cultism and cults have taken over governance with their agents spreading death, destruction and mayhem...

Burden of an Unpassing Past

Most Nigerians are still yet to come to terms with what it really means to be part of a modern world, many are still yet to grasp the essence of being a citizen in a democratic state...

Where Are Our Intellectuals?

It is easy to forget that there was a time in the history of Nigeria when there were dozens and dozens and dozens of intellectuals, radicals and gadflies in the Nigerian media and institutions of higher learning...

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Presidential Score Card – How Has OBJ Fared?

The people have an expectation, and the hope and desire of both the winning and losing political camps should be that the government in power will leave Nigeria better than they met it...

Ending the Rule of the Nigerian Village Idiot (the Traitor)

President Trump’s alleged invective, mislabeling African nations and Haiti...

Reflections On June 12: Did MKO Abiola Commit Class Suicide?

The June 12 election annulment was a complete coup against the people and a continuation of the class struggle in Nigeria; a struggle against the economic emancipation of the poor. It also gives credence to the thesis that in some historical settings, a ruling elite will never relinquish power to the people on a platter of gold...

Adokiye Amiesimaka: The Man Who Told the Truth

The Nigerian Football Federation has been caught with its pants down. The Eaglets Skipper, Mr. Fortune Chukwudi, is said to be at least 25 years old, and not 17, as the NFF and the national team claims...

That Senatorial Clowning

In a few days, we would know if the United States government will bow to the moratorium by the senate for it to de-list Nigeria as a terrorist nation or whether the senate will swallow the humble pie in a contest it is not fit and trim to provoke...

Encounter with Chinua Achebe: A Critique of Traditional Igbo Society

Upon my return to Lagos in February, 1974, I was commissioned by the US Embassy in Lagos to interview the author of Things Fall Apart, for publication in their magazine...

Nigeria: A Unique Nation or an Oddity?

There is something about the way Nigeria operates that often seems to defy proven theoretical assumptions and the working patterns of most of the rest of the world...

Hyperbolic Exaggerations

President Obasanjo recently admitted being pressured by some Nigerians to stay on for another term, but he has not told us their reasons for urging him to stay on. It is Corruption on the part of the President not to name those Nigerians, or to dignify their advice by not speaking up on it sooner, and by not openly discouraging that kind of advice...

Immune In Legislative Impunity

It beggars belief that our elected representatives at the...

Accursed is the Land

Accursed is the land where the young are slaughtered...