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 Really Qualifies to Fight Corruption in Nigeria?

To fight corruption in Nigeria, would it require a virgin or an angel? Should we fight corruption by hiring foreign agents, just as we do with foreign football coaches and technical advisers?

Who Really Qualifies to Fight Corruption in Nigeria?

To fight corruption in Nigeria, would it require a virgin or an angel? Should we fight corruption by hiring foreign agents, just as we do with foreign football coaches and technical advisers?

In Loving Memory of NAL…

In the military, a commander who fails to achieve his operational objective and under whose watch a calamity occurs will face a disciplinary action that includes but not limited to a court martial.  But in the corporate world, it’s a different ball game...

Talakawa Umaru Yar'Adua Will Be President of Nigeria!

Talakawa Yar'Adua is not corrupt! He is the only Nigerian governor to publicly declare his assets before he was sworn in, in 1999 and again, before his re-inauguration in 2003...

Pollution Issue: A Split Second Experience With Death

So this is how it typically ends when a fatal accident happens. No plans, no readiness for death and no goodbyes to loved ones. Who would raise my children? Would they be told I went to Heaven?

Nuhu Ribadu’s List Of Prejudice

It will be difficult for one book to contain the names of all the corrupt people in Nigeria, because that book could well be a multi- million page book…

Lawlessness Unlimited

Whenever I look up the meaning of the words anarchy, confusion, chaos and pandemonium in my dictionary, it is always illustrated with a map of Nigeria. Everybody is in charge there. Nobody is in charge there...

We are Asari Dokubo!

We from the Niger-Delta should carry this consciousness about and around us: that anytime Asari Dokubo is put in chains and locked up in a Black Maria, it is we who are also locked in a Black Maria and are in chains. I say this because there are a couple of persons in our midst who are mostly responsible for the travails of the Niger Delta...

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Nigeria at 50: Independence Speech of Obafemi Awolowo

Officially, three of us - Balewa, Zik and me - were invited a few months ago to grace this golden occasion of our great nation, but we decided not to come to express our grievances on the bad state of the country....

What is wrong with the World? The Need for a World Peace Conference

I sense a fresh inspiration  that Godlessness, lack of unity and solidarity, internationalism, arrogance and the rule  by  the ideological fanatics who appropriate to themselves “knowledge” perpetual and eternal, are some  of the factors that have resulted in the state of fear and discord world-wide...

How to Report the President's Illness: Why Nigeria's Case Is Different

Nigerians can also be blamed for the paucity of information on the health status of those at the helm of affairs. On the various streets across Nigeria, Nigerians go about their daily chores as if all is well...

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...

Nigeria's Incompetent Economic Team Nmutaka's Paranoiac Pen

I'm writing on behalf of disenfranchised Nigerians. I'm writing to bring to the attention of those in government that millions of our frustrated youth and their powerless parents have nowhere else to look than their government...

How We Destroyed Mike Tyson

Tyson spoke of killing his opponents and eating their children but instead of helping him find help, we rushed to watch his fights, to see him kill his opponents...

Ngige Re-branded Akunyili

Because Ngige is a man of the people, those aligned with Dora are now saying that they respect him, but he should have contested in another senatorial district and not have contested against Dora, which has led to the latter’s disgrace...

Emergency Preparedness Plan in Local Communities: The Role of Stakeholders

The transport of dangerous goods within communities is increasing.  The demands for improved efficiency and increased capacity often require use of dangerous processes and substances to boost production...

Fayemi’s Three Years And The Ekiti Mobsters’ Antics

Three years after he recovered his purloined mandate, Fayemi has left no one in doubt that he was prepared for the task of taking Ekiti out of the political maelstrom that was its lot prior to his coming...

CGPI 100 Days

INTRODUCTION Assessing elected officials on a 100 day period has...