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...

This Animal called Power

The same Obasanjo who fell victim to Abacha’s grandiose plans for a life-long presidency is playing the same song all over again. This time his victims would be the innocence of a nascent democracy, the economic viability of the bleeding Niger-Delta and the blood of thousands of Nigerians...

Let My People Go

The Nigerian blames the state for everything good and everything gone wrong. Indeed, the Nigerian in you sees government all around him. In Nigeria, government has a hand in everything. From politics, to food, to employment to where you choose to gather to whom you choose to speak to- everything is government! Which brings me to ask- do we really need government?

Okonjo-Iweala For President

Any leader can only do but so much and let go, because building a nation is never a one man job, and is never finished. I don't care if you are a Goliath in mufti or uniform. Hand over the damn thing to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala...

Breaking Down the Walls of Ignorance

What is Nigerian culture? Who will define the way things are done in Nigeria? We must keep in mind that there is no one way that Nigerians do things. Lack of awareness and rigidity of thought holds Nigeria in a state of ignorant suspension...

Niger Delta: Things Are Falling Aground!

This is not Biafra. This is guerilla war at its best. There is no Geneva Convention, no uniformed personnel, no rules of engagement and other assortments and luxury that organized warfare offers its combatants. This is fight to the finish...

Niger Delta: Things Are Falling Aground!

This is not Biafra. This is guerilla war at its best. There is no Geneva Convention, no uniformed personnel, no rules of engagement and other assortments and luxury that organized warfare offers its combatants. This is fight to the finish...

Still On Odi And The Mad Dog Syndrome

6 years down the line, the evil handiwork of beastly soldiers has now begun to manifest in the large numbers of fatherless children in Odi who were sired when their innocent mothers were savagely raped and beaten repeatedly into submission by the mad dogs...

Third Term Politics: Dear Segun, Dear Sunday

Sunday, you know we come a long way. Let me put your mind at rest. Where you are concerned, I have instructed Mr. Fani-Kayode who engages his mouth before his head - not to exercise his own freedom of speech...

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We Need To Re-Strategize

Image matters in everything, our appearance matters. Foreigners will make up their mind on Nigeria through those representing us outside our shore. We must make do with our first eleven...

Where does Customs ‘target’ Money Go?

Last week, while discussing an awful experience with being charged an...

This Balogun of Owu, This President, This Obasanjo

This president should be told, for his own good and for the good of the nation, that he must change his ways...

Adewole: The physician as diplomat

Professor Isaac Folorunso Adewole is a Renaissance man who...

SGF Boss Mustapha’s Amazing Discovery

Rarely ever in our systems of government, be they...

Our sympathies or our protests?

Each time I spear the time to watch the amount of time our leaders spend celebrating themselves rather than celebrating ideas that should solve our problems and lift us up, it shows me our leaders not only lack patriotic sentiments, selflessness, seriousness, but have no sense of urgency...

A moment of truth to power – Open letter to President Goodluck Jonathan

Mr Jonathan speech confirmed the suspicion of many – our President is indeed belligerent and rather ignorant of the enormity of the cataclysm the country currently faces...

Gani Fawehinmi: A Personal Encounter

I count myself lucky to have met this great Nigerian who will continue to live in our hearts...

Date Me Jeje, Date Me Tender

I have never, ever been on a date.  For someone who can describe a perfect date even while in the middle of REM sleep, it is rather appalling that I have never, ever been on a date...

Aminu Tambuwal: Double Dipping

In Nigeria, nothing sells like unnecessary drama. Aminu Tambuwal...