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...

The Niger-Delta and Gun-Boats

Where does the Niger-Delta arms come from? Who gives these unemployed, unhappy Urhobo youths AK-47s and mortars to eliminate his in-laws the Itshekiris? Where does the intelligent Itshekiri group get their machine guns... 

Death Wishes & Irresponsible Journalism in Nigeria

A segment of the Nigerian Press hit a new low in the past couple of days, as they engaged in poor taste journalism and rumor mongering!

Umaru Yar’Adua: Dead or Alive What Does It Matter?

Some five thousand people in any given Nigerian city suffer from catarrh on any given day, yet, they don't go to Germany for treatment...

Bayo Ojo’s “Slippery Slope” and Yar’Adua’s Catarrh

Why would any presidential aspirant pray for Yar'Adua's death at this period? I may be naïve, not being a politician, but I refuse to buy the argument that Yar'Adua is the man to beat in this election...

Can the Death of Coach Lawrence Awopegba, a Tennis Legend, Revive Tennis in Nigeria?

Where is Nigeria's national development plan today as it prepares for the next All-African games in Algiers, the Afro-Asia Games in China, and the Olympic Games in China?

Why Buhari Must Be Banned From The Election, If Nigeria And Nigerians Want To Build A True Democracy

Without any exaggeration, the forthcoming election will most likely be a turning point in the history of Nigeria in the quest to build a democratic and prosperous nation...

“Latitudinal” and “Longitudinal” Balderdash

When I write, like many patriotic Nigerians, it is to beam some light on some of the darkness in our polity, hoping that those in whom the power to effect changes reside might wake up to their responsibilities. Our society is the way it is because most of us do not ask questions of our leaders...

“Latitudinal” and “Longitudinal” Balderdash

When I write, like many patriotic Nigerians, it is to beam some light on some of the darkness in our polity, hoping that those in whom the power to effect changes reside might wake up to their responsibilities. Our society is the way it is because most of us do not ask questions of our leaders...

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Oil Money In Nigeria’s Democracy

Despite the influx of an accumulated  $30 billion of crude revenue, the poor in Nigeria continue to languish without jobs, education, healthcare or the bare necessities of life, while the small percentage of rich mostly with their extorted money manage to get whatever luxuries they want...

Is Governor Peter Obi's APGA losing grip of Anambra State?

APGA's poor showing on the recent Nigerian elections may be due lack of strategic planning and absence of Dim Ikemba Ojukwu...

Dateline 2011: The Buhari/Ribadu 'Deadly' Combination

Majority of Nigerians, at home and abroad, are agreed that our motherland is terribly 'sick'! Yes, she is suffering from what one could call 'statehood tumor', an ailing condition that is similar to the prostrate cancer that has killed many rich men and women. And to combat the malady and save her from imminent death she has been taken to the emergency ward of a teaching hospital...

Virginia Monologues…On Niger Delta

What is wrong with you poor people? Why can’t you let us be? This country has worked, and is working well. Let us talk about tenure elongation. Furniture allowance, etc. This Niger Delta militancy is just what it has not been called: criminality!

Nigeria: The Burden of a Lie

Until recently, I had retained residual hope in the prospect of the birth of a viable nation out of the space called Nigeria. I’m now – I must confess – filled with deep doubts...

Begging For The Life Of Your Twins

In today's Nigeria, twin children are very attractive and somewhat celebrated. The parents of these children usually get some kind of support from neighbours and friends particularly when it seems that it is mostly the abjectly poor that often have twins...

Echoes from Ekiti, lifelines in Osun

With growing doubts about the efficacy of institutions in...

In A Lighter Mood: The Way We Seriously Feel About Our Leaders

I have written in previous articles that I firmly believe that our leaders hate us, else for example, what reason would a single person decide to steal billions of Naira while neglecting the people he was meant to serve and protect?

Now, Will President Yar’Adua Be Kind?

Quitting now would be more redemptive of Yar’Adua’s person than being remembered later as the groping undertaker of a richly endowed but seriously ill nation?

The Potency of Social Media in Nation Building

Now, majority of Nigerians through social media are no...