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...

Why Nigerians Cannot Pay International Prices for Oil

Leaving petrol prices in Nigeria to the whims and caprices of international spot market rate is leaving Nigerians vulnerable to the speculators on Wall Street and Main Street. In fact, it is leaving us open to Osama Bin Laden and his fellow terrorists...

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

Is Obasanjo The Most Distinguished Egba Son?

General Obasanjo left office in 1979, not “voluntarily,” but at the nudging of the “Northern Power House.” They had just lost one of their own and they wanted back in power. So, they encouraged him to leave in order to “fulfill the promise” made by the late General Murtala Mohammed to hand over power to elected civilians in 1979...

Oil Price Increase: Nigerians Are Angry – And Rightly Too

How will you explain to the poor Niger Delta woman that she has to pay more than she can earn (that is if she is earning a living) to buy kerosene for her ant infested fire-wood from the farm in her back-yard that has been polluted by oil?

Corruption And New Frontiers Of Press Freedom

The methods used by leadership to muzzle speech and cover up crimes against the state and individuals vary from regime to regime but it is in the military setting that the crudest form of repression has taken place. Some have said that Nigeria has been much better of than most African countries on this matter just because journalists and others were not disappearing or being murdered...

What Progress?

We concede that there has been established some institutional framework to fight corruption, the question is, has it been effective?  Has it lived up to the promise that ‘there shall be no sacred cows’? Has the state investigated in a clear and transparent manner...

Don't miss

Gov. Obaseki versus Edo Journalists: Matters Arising

All is not well between Godwin Obaseki, and with...

From Home To Rome Football Quakes The Earth

Football is earthquake larger than the Richter scale. I should...

The Arab Revolt: The Western Nations in Strategic Dilemma in the Era of the Gentiles (3)

The tumult in the Arab world as a result of the bombardment of Libya should have been anticipated. The hurried eagerness to create a no-fly zone and commence military action could lead to the termination of the Kaddafi regime...

Ibori, Peter Odili, and Justice Buba

Several newspapers and online forums reported that Justice I.N. Buba of the Federal High Court in Asaba had issued an injunction prohibiting Ibori’s arrest. Buba has done it before...

Who Cares If Kenya Bleeds To Death?

Kenya is bleeding profusely today, but who cares? Certainly, not Kibaki who is currently blinded by his naked lust for power to read the handwriting on the wall...

Mountaineering and Manifestation of the Sons of God

Christianity is a heavenly call: A call by the God of Heaven unto salvation of our souls; a call to grow thereafter in Christ or to become more like the Lord of Heaven...

Confessions Of A De-Robed Monk

It takes more than the piety of religion to conquer and overcome the unwholesome desires of the heart. Love is all about desiring the best for someone. It's better to allow love to sleep on in limbo than rouse and stoke it...Monks also face the same challenges that confront mortal men...

Before it REALLY is Too Late

Some Nigerians with a sense of history and enough patriotic blood in their veins have tried to remind our power-drunk political leaders that at this rate, we may be inadvertently inviting the military to truncate our democracy.  Rather than heed their advice, our leaders put their blinders on as if merely wishing away coups is enough to prevent one...

Musings on Love

Love your enemies  -- Matthew 5:4 Man is a social...

Soludo’s Anambra Towers Over Written Fictional Ratings

By Valentine Somtochukwu There was a time when some politicians...