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...

Economic Aid, HIV/AIDS, And Nigerian Churches

There are countries in Africa that shouldn’t have been nation-states in the first place. These are countries that are just too small, too poor, and vastly undereducated...

Naija Notes: Winning the battle, losing the war

One of the characters in the Ngige abduction drama has warned the PDP that he will tell the whole world how the elections were rigged in the East if the PDP decides to punish him...

Princess Adedoyin: Questions Jam Answers

The legislators over-stepped their bounds. It is none of their business whether she is married, divorced, or single. I wonder if any of the Senators would have had the balls to pose such silly questions to a male nominee...

Charles Taylor And The Issue Of Safe-Haven

I favor granting Taylor refuge in Nigeria. I am of the opinion that there are times when it is necessary to allow misfits off the hook especially if such an act will serve a greater or common good...

Funke Adedoyin – An Odious Impertinence?

The princess should have done a bit of background checks on the senators that humiliated her publicly. If she could not anticipate her woes, maybe she is not fit for a ministerial position…

Naija Notes: Obj, Na So You Be?

Every day you queue up to buy petrol at N34 a litre or pay twice the amount you used to pay for your bus ride, you will be contributing to the rehabilitation fund of Obasanjo's party...

Sittiing on the Rock

The federal government has N60 billion to construct a new stadium, but is unwilling to commit a few billions to reviving education in Nigeria…

Are Sovereign Conferences Inevitable?

The awakened common Nigerians should continue to shout as loudly as they can and from every rooftop until we wake up all the sleeping common Nigerians...

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US: Averting economic woes by raising debt limit

The economic impact of not raising debt ceiling and subsequent default by United States may have domino effect on Nigeria and Africa as a result of AGOA and NEPAD...

Forever saved or damned: a choice!

Our subject matter is understandably a very serious one. And it brings to focus certain words that must clearly be understood before we go ahead in a serious exercise of writing and reading about the most important issue in time and all of eternity...

Legal Implications of The Benin Appeal Court Judgment In The Edo State Governorship Election Petition

By the judgment of the Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin City, in respect of the appeal from the Edo State election petition tribunal judgment that lied with it, the Judiciary has once again demonstrated that it is the custodian of the nation’s nascent democracy and the last bastion of the people’s rights...

Boko Haram: What Manner of Ceasefire?

A couple of weeks ago, the mass media –...

Osun guber: Why the dance is ending for Governor Adeleke

By Adeyemi Oguntade ​The music in the Government House is...

Nigeria’s Triumphalism in Stupor

It’s such a sad matter seeing supposedly sane Nigerians...

Jeunalists Must Have A Uniform Like Policemen

Jeunalists have replaced journalists in Nigeria. There used to be...

Orunmila, Odia And The NLNG Prizes

Every prize in the world lives not on bread alone but also from conditions that flow forth from its overall objective. Since prize sponsors have the freedom of conditions, what then is bad if the architects of the NLNG Prizes compose conditions that exclude offshore Nigerian scientists and writers...

Iyabo Obasanjo’s Mirror

The Obasanjo who emerges in his daughter’s letter struck me as an altogether familiar figure. There are, for me, few surprises, save for the daughter’s unflinching marshaling of evidence unknown to most Nigerians in order to sustain her intrepid assessment of her father...

A New Agenda

Government is not solely about controlling a bloated and corrupt bureaucracy and dishing out favor to cronies in the ‘come chop’ tradition. Government is also about issues, vision and principles...