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...

How To Survive A Fidel Castro Surgical Operation

There are so many things you should have in mind before you go for a major or minor intestinal surgical operation in a private clinic in my country...

The Cheat In All Of Us

All over Nigeria, the beans are being spilled on the sordid past and present of Nigeria's politicians and government officials, perhaps opening their can of worms has become a national past time...

Should One Respect the Office or the Politician?

Can we insult Olusegun Obasanjo without denigrating the Presidency? Can Olusegun Obasanjo fight Atiku Abubakar without dragging the exalted office of the Vice President into the mud?

2007: Again, We Have Lost It

Those who use age to rationalise Nigeria’s insalubrious political conduct forget that in the same western hemisphere with America is a country called Haiti, the world's first black-led republic which became independent in 1804. Today, Haiti remains the poorest nation in the Americas without a scintilla of democratic culture…

Why Atiku Will Be President In 2007

As the days turn into weeks and as the weeks turn into months, inexorably dragging us all to the semi-evil days of Nigeria's election in April, it is not a hard thing to do to predict the outcome or the result of the elections...

Thinking of a Career Change

Politics is good. It is admirable. As a politician, I only need to be good at four things: lie, cheat, and steal and do nothing. What beats being a Nigerian politician? Nothing! What beats lying, cheating, stealing and laziness?

Ladoja, Oyo PDP Ticket & The Lawmakers

One wonders why Chief Ralph Uwazuruike, Fredrick Fasehun, Gani Adams and Asari Dokubo were incarcerated while Obasanjo and his EFCC continue to watch Adedibu’s bold fingers writing Oyo State black...

Fake Intellectuals, Useless Patriots

Politics in Nigeria is like war because it is the most lucrative job in Nigeria. It is not impossible to see a man that made some moderate money from, say business, become stupendously rich once he's elected into political office...

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N27.5 Million APC Forms: Buhari Unravels

Late last week (Thursday, October 16, 2014), the All...

Power Shift to the South: A Greek Gift? (Part 2)

Part 1 HERE In part 1 of this series which...

Oodua Republic: To Be Or Not To Be?

Fellow brothers and sisters, it's very important for us to understand that Nigeria is a 'trap' that was set up by the British in order to make us independent and hold back our economic and cultural development...

One Nation, Separate Justice

There has been selective judicial prosecution in Nigeria even when and where there is a glaring infringement of fundamental rights and objectives of good goverance. That is why it is not uncommon for Nigerians to resort to extra-ordinary means to resolve a simple case of civil breach...

Softly, Softly Rev. Fr. Mathew Hassan Kukah

It is shocking and disturbing to read about Rev....

Sold Out: Black British Billionaires

The Rich List 2012 passed the test of prediction. I am yet to be formally declared a prophet. My confident intuition paid off. Pages after pages, I saw smiling white faces. Some caressing their yachts moored on the Pacific oceans. They look robust, real and ready. They look beautiful, bouncy, bright and brilliant. Why not? They are the risk-taking, movers and shakers of this sceptre isle called Britain...

How Nigerian Banks Mislead Investors With Crafty Accounting Reports

Investors should be wary of the antics of banks and scrutinise their results and body language thoroughly before staking their money because the banks are still very far from full recovery...

Nigeria: Where Cometh Our Help? (1)

When the future of a nation is left swathed up in warts in the hands of platoons of tomfoolery and retrogrades, a double-edged sword of endemic and pandemic automatically become the results, and the entire citizenry feel the effect of the quotidian lancination that did not emerge in paroxysm...

Who Said Our Leaders Are Corrupt?

To date, our leaders determinedly continue to trivialize the madness of financial misappropriation and the long-term harm and hurt it unleashes on the destiny of Nigeria.  This wild-fire menace and monstrous cascade continues unhindered...

Trump Wakes Nigeria: Nigeria Remains Awake

J. P. Clark’s poem "Night Rain" recounts the hardships...