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 Will Teach Our Children?

The sun has arisen daily from the East and has set in the West since the turn of the century bringing with it a lot of changes, but the poor opinion that everyone has of the teacher is still there...

2006: The Year in Review

For Nigerians, this has been an exceptional year in political and socio-economic terms. The year represents perhaps the last month before birth, the last bridge before the destination on our road to either full blown democracy or national crisis...

President Olusegun Obasanjo: A Tribute

President Bush, Clinton and Carter were among the large assemblage of persons who came to pay tribute to President Obasanjo of Nigeria at the world famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, on Tuesday December 19, 2006…

President Olusegun Obasanjo: A Tribute

President Bush, Clinton and Carter were among the large assemblage of persons who came to pay tribute to President Obasanjo of Nigeria at the world famous Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York, on Tuesday December 19, 2006…

Yar’Adua/Goodluck Duo As Third Term Alternative

Tell you what...the man who has been picked as the PDP presidential candidate is really no different from the Shehu Shagari of our Second Republic...

The South-South/South-East Blew it

From all indications, it appears the South-South and the South-East regions have finally shot themselves in the foot by blowing away what only a few weeks ago, seemed to be their best chance ever at producing a president for Nigeria...

After The OBJ Primaries

No one who had keenly followed reports and analyses of developments
on Nigeria's political terrain in the past couple of weeks would be
surprised at the emergence of the Katsina State Governor, Umar Musa
Yar'Adua, as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party...

Prof. Osunbor Selects Lucky Imasuen as Deputy

Is Lucky Imasuen capable of the role and the framework designed to succeed as a deputy to Osunbor? I can't respond to this question.What I hope is that he doesn't function based solely on the law of reciprocity...

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Sanusi: A Radical in a Conservative Job?

In what would appear to be a reckless outburst of emotions, Sanusi was quoted as saying that the sacked bank executives now standing trial at the various courts in the country deserved to die by firing squad for eroding public confidence...

Nigeria 's sovereign wealth fund: Transparency and sound Management

Nigeria is making a bold but calculative move to establish a sovereign wealth fund. The Acting President of Nigeria Goodluck Jonathan has asked his economic team to make the requisite arrangements to establish a sovereign wealth fund...

Let My People Go! Ending the Impunities of the PDP Era

The dust is finally settling on a new reality...

Corrupt People Cannot/Do not Make Good Leaders!

This statement by the late great Madiba, Nelson Mandela,...

Udongo Itiaita, HIV/AIDS Education Handbook

After reading Udongo Itiaita, one comes off with the impression that this is a radical departure from the run-of-the-mill treaties that prescribe paternalistic, holier-than-thou admonitions on how to stay free from getting infected with HIV...

Chibok: Destroying the Future of our Tomorrow?

The 10th anniversary of the abduction of 276 schoolchildren...

Home Coming

When people tell me they want to move back to Nigeria, I respond with the question, why? Sometimes I get a puzzling reply bordering around the fact that Nigeria is after all home, like it or not!

Ebenezer Obey: I Had My Share Of Drinking And Womanizing

"Nigeria’s future is bright...The country will be better. Good days are ahead. I will just want the government to take care of the Niger Delta people. It pleases God to put the oil in their region. So let them enjoy the wealth from that oil..." - Ebenezer Obey

The Habits of Success

People have the opinion that being successful means having lots of money. That's false...it's only a beginning. It is just one of the many gauges to measure success.

Democracy, The Case For Transparency And Accountability In Emerging Societies; Nigeria As A Case Study

Competent studies have shown that there is a current problem with the application of the pure forms of Democracy in Emergent Societies, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa.  The problem is how to balance between fair systems of letting the citizens determine what government they want against what is truly good for them...