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...

America Means Well For Nigeria; Oh Really?

America has clearly set out to undermine Nigeria, to create instability and disintegration! Despite the adamant insistence by some Nigerians that the current American federal government means well for Nigeria and Nigerians, it is becoming crystal clear that the quick succession of negative events perpetrated and orchestrated at the behest of America are geared toward producing negative consequences...

Electoral Reforms And Prospects For Unity In Nigeria's Fledgling Democracy

Those in power are always sensitive to avoid handing over political power to their avowed political enemies. Hence the deliberate subtle manipulation of both the process and the personnel to ensure victory for their favored candidates at elections...

Electoral Reforms And Prospects For Unity In Nigeria's Fledgling Democracy

Those in power are always sensitive to avoid handing over political power to their avowed political enemies. Hence the deliberate subtle manipulation of both the process and the personnel to ensure victory for their favored candidates at elections...

The Roar of A Lame Lion (1)

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It flourishes because all the survival indices have been submerged in the cesspool of rapacious government fiefdom, and lofty but shoddily implemented policies...

The Roar of A Lame Lion (2)

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It flourishes because all the survival indices have been submerged in the cesspool of rapacious government fiefdom, and lofty but shoddily implemented policies...

Lagos State LG Funds: Waiting for the Apology

Imagine a ship at sea that is in trouble. The lights keep going out. The engine is faltering. The rudder is unreliable. The first mate is drunk. The crew is demoralised. The service is appalling. The passengers on the ship are very dissatisfied...The troubled ship is Nigeria my beloved country.

Celebrating The Nigerian Political Amazons

The women in Nigerian politics have come a long way.  Theirs has been a very thorny and torturous journey through a very narrow and murky path in the nation’s political jungle...

Pride And Prejudice

For those in the West, negative projections on Africa serve a very veritable purpose.  In the United States, for instance, the homeless, the hungry and the poverty-stricken members of the society and especially among the minorities only have to view or read about the “African jungles” and they’ll forever be grateful to be Americans...

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As The Battle line Is Drawn on Fuel Subsidy…

Any visitor to Nigeria, observing the raging noisy altercation about the removal of the so called subsidy on petroleum products, would be led to so many faulty assumptions which the government has brought to bear on the issue...

The Coup in Egypt: The End of the Notion of Democracy in the Arab World?

The military intelligence operations in Egypt, which purportedly terminated the democratically elected government of President Morsi, was a coup d’état...

China Bashing Foreign Investments in Africa

There is cut-throat competition between America and Europe on the one hand and China on the other, and there is no hiding the revived scramble for the resources on the African continent, especially resources of the hydrocarbon type...

Obama Publicly Shames and Ridicules Us; We Are Nonetheless Overjoyed?

50% of the sports men and women in America are African Americans, but, surprisingly, only 2% of all coaches and managers are African Americans! Why is that Mr. President? It is because, in America, racism often tells you who you are and where you should be!

Ndigbo: Architects of our Own Problems

As Ndigbo, we shouldn't pretend that all is well...

Speaking Truth to Power: A Lost Government?

For a man who had the coronet of sainthood...

Ghana as Nigerians’ investments haven

It is disheartening to note that even long before the advent of the continued economic and financial meltdown, which started manifesting late 2008, and still troubles the global economy up till now, a sizeable number of Nigerian businesses apparently, had found the country’s business climate tough and unfriendly...

Preconditions and The Road Map to Peace in the Middle East

Chairman Arafat is known as the leader of the Palestinians and it is unfathomable for many leaders and nation-states to talk about solving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict without the involvement of Chairman Arafat...

My Nigeria and my social responsibility

Patriotism may indeed be the last refuge of Nigerian people. But despite that, it is never a wise thing to question a person’s integrity only because he or she does not agree with the accuser...

Ojukwu: Nigeria’s Most Controversial Patriot

Ojukwu: The ‘Rebel’ I Served by Uche Ezechukwu; ThoniMartins...