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...

A Dream Sculpted From The Pulpit

Has Reverend Okotie demonstrated his possession of a political soul?

Religion as an Instrument for Governance, Servitude and Subjugation

Nigerian politicians are using God and religion as a ruse to misrule and swindle. They remind me of the early missionaries to Africa who came with gun in one hand, Bible in the other…

Naija Notes: A Brief History of Bomb Blasts in Nigeria

Bad news is like a thief. It doesn't knock to be let in. It finds an open window, it slips in and surprises you...

The Nigerian Electorate And The Question Of Leadership

The days of grand ideas are long gone. In the current political climate, all you need is a sack full of money or a lorry load of vagabonds to intimidate your opponents...

Naija Notes: A Year After The Explosions

In Nigeria, we all remember where we were and what we were doing when the world came to a momentary end on January 27th 2002...

Segun Osoba The Conqueror

Are there similarities between Osoba and William the Conqueror, the King of England and Duke of Normandy? Is it the reputation of their tenacity or brutality...

Gani Fawehinmi: The Town Crier

Gani is unequipped to govern Nigeria. Why he cannot concentrate his endeavours in the Courts of Law is beyond me...

Keeping Mum

The lunatics that prance the streets stark naked in broad daylight weren't born that way...

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The World At A Tipping Point!

Some topics covered at a two-month ‘Environmental Reporting’ training in Berlin, Germany, organised by the International Institute for Journalism, IIJ, of InWent, reveals that the world  is at a’ tipping point’, an irreversible point of climate change...

Why Is Fayemi Not In Government?

When people watch a football match, a key player...

Waiting For The Messiah!

Having been denied true leadership in recent times, many Nigerians will not be able to recognize one if they saw it. Any critical analysis of successive civilian and military Nigerian governments will show that we have not been lucky...

Jonathan Goodluck’s Family, Sahara Reporters, Ribadu or Adewuyi: Who Lied Against Whom?

The desperation of Ribadu to serve his fatherland under questionable personalities whom he made us known are treasury looters speaks volume about his least known side...

Eating Our Ponmo Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Occasionally it becomes one’s fortune to read a statement...

Niger Delta: Sitting On Oil, Hungry For Bread! (2)

Ever since oil drilling got under way in the Niger Delta’s Oloibiri in the early 1950s, the communities that surround this stormy body of “oil-hood” have lived in dread of an environmental failure...

It’s The Economy, Wise Guy

In 1992, Bill Clinton, then the Democratic Party candidate...

Presidency: The Danger of Shagarinization

It is possible to predict prophetically the future direction of the Umaru Yar’Adua government by examining Shagari’s government because both are eerily similar in their creation, nature and style…

Rail Modernization Project: Viewing The Collapse From The Lapses

The purported 25-year national plan for railway development initiated four years ago appears tardy and unrealistic and therefore should be scrapped. A proper decision must be taken on whether the rail mode should be public service centred, commercialized or privatized…

A Review of Lugard’s Amalgamation Diplomacy

The ungovernable nature of the Nigerian state point to...