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...

Working With The Children

My sister, at sixteen, died because of the poor health infrastructure for children in Nigeria...

Pius Anyim: The Symbol Of Our Politics

Pius Anyim is a contradiction that makes our politics the infamy for the electorate.

Seeds of Discord

There is a chance that the coming elections could be peaceful. All those who have sown seeds of discord and laid eggs of destruction under the wings of the Electoral Act debacle will have to look for another way of hatching their eggs.

The Arrogance of a President

Our president should know that if there is no vacancy at Aso Rock, there is no vacancy at Buckingham Palace or 10 Downing Street.

Before Castigating General Buhari

It will amount to a political misjudgement for Buhari to be offered the presidential ticket for 2003 without him redressing the injuries and abuses of his past military administration...

HM Queen Elizabeth's Speech: A Nigerian Perspective

"Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics"

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In Defence of the Spirit of Biafra

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Aiyedatiwa!

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We Can Help Save This Little Girl!

Even the hardest of hearts would be melted by the moving story of Miss Chioma Aribe, the 19-year-old Engineering student of the of the Yaba College of Technology currently waging a gallant battle against a life-threatening liver aliment...

Turning the Tide: Resetting Nigeria’s Economy, Post Covid-19

Covid 19 has become an enlightening and an unusual...

My Country People Have Followership Deficit

Some enlightened people in our country today who hold very strong opinions about   government hold those opinions because of the strong position taken by Jean Jacques Rousseau. This thinker of the 18th Century successfully sold his idea of political participation via an arrangement known as the ‘Social Contract’...

Chinua Achebe's Nigerian Award debacle: A learning experience and teachable moment

Professor Chinua Achebe, the most influential African writer, a citizen of the world and a respected voice in the world, rejected an award from Nigeria. The issue is not so much that he turns down the national award but on how the Nigerian government handled the whole issue...

Soyinka’s Eruption and Nigeria’s Opposition Infantilism

The insertion of certain voices of reason into public discourse usually changes not only the tone of that conversation but the direction. Professor Wole Soyinka's recent eruption, I'm afraid, has shown the persisting lack of discernment that pervades the moribund opposition movement in Nigeria...

Development; Why Have You Eluded Us?

Why is it that our contemporaries are well ahead of us in all indices of development? Are we really making progress in Nigeria? Why has development eluded us? What did we do wrong? What are we doing wrong?

Ambush In The Night

Saro-Wiwa found sympathetic ears particularly among Nigerian journalists working in the independent press where he was in any case, considered a member of the house...

Jesus' Two Manifestations and Manifestation of the Sons of God

The purpose of the first salvation is for Him to present us holy, un-blamable and ‘unreproveabe’.  That is how the saved soul is presented if he happens to die immediately after salvation or forgiveness of his sins. But most don’t die immediately...