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...

Aren’t We Just A Bunch Of Buffoons?

The elections have come and gone. Yar'Adua is now president-elect. A certain Goodluck Jonathan, who might be fooled into describing as serendipitous, the political concoctions that have consistently pushed him into only previously dreamed-about positions in the political configuration of Nigeria in the last couple of years, is vice president-elect...

Stand And Deliver – A Short Note To President-Elect Umar Yar'Adua

You have attained the Presidency of our nation Nigeria at a very crucial point in our history. The challenges are many and failure is definitely not an option...

Goodluck Jonathan: The Suspicion, The Resentment And The Consequences

There are no sensible explanations for the bombing and loss of lives that took place in and around the country home of Governor Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. None...

Let The Work Begin!

Regardless of political party affiliations, I write to congratulate all persons elected to all levels of political offices nation-wide...

The Things I Observed in Nigeria

There are too many moments that make me wonder how, and why, the vast majority of Nigerians are still alive and trudging...

Baroness Lynda Chalker Again

I must confess that I am becoming increasingly weary, sick and utterly disgusted by  the way and manner one British woman they call Baroness Lynda Chalker carelessly throws her totally unedifying and exasperating self and words into the affairs of my country...

Election Rigging And Other Atrocities: Obasanjo Is NOT Guilty.

Obasanjo has decided to turn the country upside down for being denied the opportunity to rule us till death. He has decided to get his revenge for not being allowed to own and run Nigeria like his private property...

Election Rigging And Other Atrocities: Obasanjo Is NOT Guilty.

Obasanjo has decided to turn the country upside down for being denied the opportunity to rule us till death. He has decided to get his revenge for not being allowed to own and run Nigeria like his private property...

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President Mohammadu Buhari and the Nigerian Constitution

President   Muhammadu Buhari in his recent meeting  with the...

When Your People Clap For Their Own Invasion — The Height Of Failed Leadership!

When a foreign president openly threatens to intervene in...

A Country And Its Strange Citizens

Nigerians are a special breed of people. They have the incomprehensible and bizarre capacity of being happy in the worst of circumstances. A Nigerian could even applaud a man contemptuous enough of him to rape his mother in his presence...

Nigeria: Pains Of Misgovernance Have No Tribal Marks!

Many Nigerians are stuck with zero experience of what...

And Racism became King

Those were the days. It was in the final...

The Inside Story of Nigeria’s First Military Coup (I)

At independence the Northern region was given more seats in parliament than the two Southern regions put together.  This meant that no meaningful governmental decision affecting Nigeria could be taken without the consent of the North.  Southern rulers belatedly began to appreciate that Northern politicians were not as naïve as they thought...

Death Without Notice – Cardiac Arrest

While the world is trying to come to terms with the surreal and unfortunate passage of the legendary Music and entertainment Icon, Michael Jackson, it is imperative to give a thought to how these kinds of incidents can be medically and preventatively managed...

Why the Government May Be Wrong on The New ‘Minimum’ Wage

No one will dispute that our workers deserve decent wages that will guarantee social self-reproduction without recourse to moonlighting, bribery and corruption or primitive accumulation...

Delta State Is Denying Oil Producing Communities Receipts of Derivation

By Stephen K. Dieseruvwe Delta State being an oil producing...