Nigeria Matters

The travails of activist Dele Farotimi in the hands of inscrutable but entrenched principalities in Nigeria have all the potential to inflict mental and psychological injury on a normal person. …

In the theater of Nigerian politics, the elite have mastered the art of scripting a play where the masses are not just spectators but willing participants in their exploitation. While …

In today’s Nigeria, governance has become a circus of self-promotion. From the Presidency to local government councils, our leaders seem more obsessed with applause than actual service delivery. Fix a …

I recently had the honour of visiting Ekiti State, where I embarked on a self-guided tour to explore the projects completed or underway by Governor Biodun Oyebanji. From the bustling …

The festive atmosphere at a funfair held on December 18, 2024, in Ibadan’s Islamic High School, Orita Bashorun, turned into an unimaginable tragedy when a stampede claimed the lives of …

In Nigeria today, the political elite are engaged in a strategic game of legacy-building, forming alliances that transcend tribal and religious boundaries. These partnerships are not aimed at advancing national …

For those who care to know, the July 16, 2022 event marked a political Armageddon for some individuals in Osun APC. On that fateful day, their political obituaries were written; …

Nigeria’s cultural and traditional diversity is one of its greatest assets, yet it is being weaponized in a toxic quest for supremacy that threatens the nation’s unity. From ancient times, …

Rights activist and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Mike Ozekhome, recently blamed former President Muhammadu Buhari for setting a precedent that has allegedly allowed his successor, Bola Tinubu, to fill …

The recent budget presentation by Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, has reignited the debate on Nigeria’s stagnation and the intersection between leadership failure and citizen complicity. In a moment …

A dramatic scene unfolded at the Edo State House of Assembly as Governor Monday Okpebholo stumbled through the presentation of the 2025 fiscal budget, struggling to articulate the N605 billion …

Genuine, unpretentious patriotism is deep, very deep. It arises from an unflinching, sometimes obdurate conviction that one’s country would one day recover from anaemic, degenerate conditions. With such persuasions, one …

My experience as a Branch Internal Auditor in a now-consolidated commercial bank during the 2000s taught me the importance of accountability and oversight in institutions. In this role, I identified …

Last Saturday, I attended the reunion party of the Department of English UNILAG class of 1998. It was a wonderful occasion that evoked nostalgia and the revival of receding memories. …

Senator Adams Oshiomhole’s statement, “It’s better to have 774 local government chairmen who are thieves than one big thief,” has ignited widespread debates across Nigeria’s political and social spheres. On …

According to our lords and masters at the World Bank, our path to economic transformation depends on ‘sustaining critical reforms for at least 15 years’. Among these numbers are the …