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...

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...

Education and Democracy in Nigeria: Vision 2020

Education in Nigeria has been interrupted by regime change since independence from Britain in 1960. Now that our nation has embarked on sustaining unity, democracy and economic growth, the next president should make a budgetary commitment to education...

Democracy Do Nigeria Good

It is apparent that after seven plus years of waffling, missing, walking, limping, grins and cheers, democracy has by and large been good to Nigeria...

Lawmakers As Thugs

Why would Balonwu and his co-travellers on the boulevard of infamy physically attempt stopping the governor from carrying out her lawful duties? Is it part of their lawmaking responsibilities? What manner of desperation would inform such ignoble conduct?

Chief Francis Doukpolagha, Bayelsa State and the PDP

No matter the standard of measurement that is used to measure genuine leadership, accountability, transparency and service, Chief Doukpolagha meets and exceeds all those yardsticks...

UN Job: Did Obasanjo Block Okonjo-Iweala?

It will be disastrous if the president saw Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala's UN job bid as payback time, an opportunity to extract his vengeful pound of flesh as it is being insinuated in diplomatic circles...

Globacom: A Giant Among Telephony Service Providers In Nigeria And Africa

I wouldn't know how to thank Globacom for its wonderful initiatives in Nigeria. Over three years in operation, it has helped break the monopoly in the industry...

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The cost of life

What is the cost of life to human creation? Health is often neglected when it is supposed to be accorded an important place; a lorry load of people die almost everyday on Nigerian roads; citizens die mostly from preventable deaths...

Thank you, Goodluck Ebele Jonathan!

Those who have seen the causative effects of thunder...

Nigeria's Governors' Forum Election Saga: Echoes Of A Morally Bankrupt Political Entity

Ordinarily, who becomes the chairperson of a non-statutory organization like the Nigerian Governors' Forum should not evoke any public commentaries because it does not confer on who becomes the Chairperson any usufructuary benefits...

My Many Wishes for Nigeria

There is no better service than the service of Nigeria!

The Banana Skins Called Ibori, Etteh And Odili

The problem is not so much that the government is winning the war against corruption, but the impression that the war itself is not being fought with sincerity of purpose, the right tools and resources or seriousness...

Radicalism and Radicalization: The Remote and Immediate Causes

In the last one month, after the Boston Bombings by radicalized youths, the issue of radicalization has taken center stage in political discourses around the globe...

Congratulations President Jonathan, You Have Just Been Re-Elected!

PDP is the worst thing that ever happened to politics in Africa. Run by greedy, crazy people who don’t care about tomorrow, they destroyed many states, especially my home state of Osun...

The World Hails El Anatsui @ 80

They no longer make creative masters like the personable...

Oil Gas Industry Activity and the Niger Delta Environment: The Role of Environmental Law

Practically all stages and operations of oil & gas exploration and production are accompanied by undesirable discharges of solid, liquid and gaseous wastes. They include many hundreds of individual hazardous compounds...

Death of zoning…!

For me, the bombs that were flying around, the killings that wore the hood of religion, and the kidnappings that resonated across the land, were all symptomatic of the disease brought by the zoning clone...