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...

Nigeria and the Kuti Brothers

It is startling to fathom how these brothers led their individual lives, each in his atypical manner, in the bid to change the lot of the ordinary man in Nigeria for the better...

Living The Abuja Dream

Abuja’s political graveyard is littered with such yesteryears' men and women but like every other Nigerian that has ventured into Abuja in search of either fame or fortune, they dare not leave...

Nigeria: Axis Of Darkness?

Oh ye Nigerians, you must learn to be appreciative because it cost your wonder-working government a whole seven noisy years of loud promises, invaluable efforts, sacrificial work, sleepless nights and the whopping sum of nearly three billion dollars to bring you this amount of blinding darkness...

Nigeria: Axis Of Darkness?

Oh ye Nigerians, you must learn to be appreciative because it cost your wonder-working government a whole seven noisy years of loud promises, invaluable efforts, sacrificial work, sleepless nights and the whopping sum of nearly three billion dollars to bring you this amount of blinding darkness...

Igbo Presidency for Who?

There are very few honest people in Nigeria who would dispute the justness of the clamour for Igbo presidency. The distribution of resources, social rewards and even justice in Nigeria is determined largely by the personal interests of whoever seats there as the president...

Professor Utomi At 50

One may not be far wrong to assume that Pat Utomi belongs to that special category of Nigerians that believe in trying, and who are also more comfortable to be judged by history for making mistakes in their several attempts to leave the world a better place...

Ogbonna Ike: Another Young Turk Goes Down!

Maybe being a young person, I feel that one should not be slowed down by the fear of death. However, the death of two very close young people is beginning to make me think that maybe after all the good die young...

Obasanjo, The Proverbial Tortoise

Have you ever heard of a one man country? If you have not, I present to you Nigeria, a leading African Nation whose current President strongly believes, and he plays it out, at every opportunity, that Nigeria as presently constituted, cannot stand or survive without him...

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Nigerian Music Scene: A Case For A Conservatoire

Will Nigeria ever have a homegrown classical or folk music that can be exported to other cultures and drawing respect and admiration...

Governor Peter Obi and El Rufai: In Defense of Anambra Integrity

Nasir El Rufai, in his most recent article on Peter Obi and Anambra State, did not provide us with credible references or scholarly sources that validate the statistics he utilized. However, it was not difficult to find out his source which is the National Bureau of Statistics...

Lagos Gas and Noise War!

What I visited Ikoyi, supposedly an exclusive area for the nouveau rich, an acrid stench pervades, and particularly at the Keffi and Awolowo Roads...

Africans and the White House: Friends, Partners or Fools

When a typical African Head of State or Head of Government come to the US, a low-level officer from the State Department receives him or her. The White House doesn’t even consider African countries partners. We do not fall within America’s strategic interest...

No Thanks for Lady Orji

Lady Orji should have known and understood that it is not everybody in our state that has money like her family before she called and tasked corporate bodies and individuals on philanthropy and support...

2015 UN Paris Conference on Climate Change: Global Tremors in the Era of the Anti-Christ

There were things the United Nations Secretary-General did not...

What is wrong with the World? The Need for a World Peace Conference

I sense a fresh inspiration  that Godlessness, lack of unity and solidarity, internationalism, arrogance and the rule  by  the ideological fanatics who appropriate to themselves “knowledge” perpetual and eternal, are some  of the factors that have resulted in the state of fear and discord world-wide...

As The Nigerian Oil Sector Rots In Induced Quagmire

Come to think of it, as at the time I wrote, the House of Representatives Committee headed by Farouk Lawan  established the payment of a hefty N3 trillion as phantom subsidy to sundry crooks and felons; all of whom enjoyed unimpeded favour with and access to the presidency...

An Open Letter from Awo, Balewa and Zik to President G. E. A. Jonathan

n behalf of all Nigerians in heaven, we are using this forum to congratulate you for winning the recently concluded general elections that will usher you in as an elected President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria on the 29th of May...

Nigeria and its Warped Politics and Political Perverts

That crazy (and actually dangerous, if we don’t mind...