Nigeria Matters

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Do not pity President Tinubu

“We have corruption, insecurity, and many problems confronting us … but don’t pity me. I asked for the job. I campaigned for it. No...

How long can Nigeria go under Tinubu?

I have always been fascinated by a phrase in the marital vows of Christians during wedding rituals: “till death do us part”! My candid...

Nigeria and the politics we play!

The founding fathers of politics in Nigeria came with some ideals girding them. To begin with, one would discover that almost all of them...

The ATIKU-lated, The BAT-ified and The OBI-dient

This title of ours, no doubt, needs some disambiguation, lest it be lost in transmission before the awaited transition. Most so because of the...

Tackling Season of darkness in Nigeria

This is a strange and frightening moment in Nigeria. There are many voices today mixed with anger and bitterness spread across the country expressed...

Osun ‘guber’ and Oyetola’s fulfilled mandate

“You (Governor Oyetola) are doing well. You will complete this term and do another term.’        – HRM Oba Munirudeen Lawal, Timi of Ede As a...

Is the Nigerian Police a friend or an enemy?

On Thursday, I was on the phone with a friend who intimated me of the gory details about the security situation in Owerri, the...

Are we on the verge of a new Nigeria: The Peter Obi Phenomenon

Something new is happening in Nigeria. The tectonic plates are shifting. The analysts are adjusting their seats. The tremors are being felt. It is...

Osun guber, APC primaries and other stories

When we were growing up, we were treated to the fact that, whether things were convenient or not, elections, globally, were contests; that membership...

Nigeria’s presidential flag-bearers and the road to 2023

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)-monitored party presidential primary elections have come and gone and, as the saying goes, the rest is history! With...

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Africa Independent Television in America

This is suggestion to handlers of AIT from my 3 years or so experience watching the station in the USA. I know you guys are doing a good job, but I hope you will pay attention to some grey areas I think need improvement...

These Nigerian Aspirants:  To Rule-Up Or Run-Down The Nation?

The people of Nigeria are pinning their hopes that their plight and wishes are addressed by the next government regardless of the ethnicity-trend...

Politicians As Prostitutes: The Gain In Shagarism

In Nigeria politics has no deep meaning or import outside helping known crooks and criminals seize control of instruments of power and authority from where they organize robbery forays...

Gov Masari’s Eleven Billion Naira Lie

It is more than one week now since Premium...

The Wonderful Story From Chile!

The Chilean President and his wife scored huge political points during the ordeal of the miners as they demonstrated quality and responsive leadership expected of great leaders...

Gov. T.A. Orji operates a cult-like government

Whenever I want to leave Gov. Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State alone in order to see if he will change the compass of his stranded way of governing that once glorious state of ours, something in me tells me that if others and I do, the governor will continue to live in a fool's paradise...

'One Nigeria': To Be Or Not To Be? (4)

Do you want your ethnic group to be part of a country even if the probability of your ethnic group producing the president is practically equal to zero despite the fact that your contribution in terms of human and mineral resources is substantial?

Global Malaria Control: It’s Time To Cast Down The Net

Maybe as her own demonstration of love during the Valentine season, the First Lady of Nigeria – Dame Patience Jonathan on Sunday 13th day of February 2011 turned a portion of Aso Rock into a repository for insecticide-treated nets (ITNs) that were subsequently distributed to some categories of Nigerian women...

Ige's Last Stand

A celebration of the life and times of one who lived and died a great man...

We need a Nation, not Leaders or Programs

You cannot flip the pages of the hundreds of Nigeria’s newspapers, and millions of websites dedicated to analyzing the problems of Nigeria without coming away with a sense of knowing what is required. But somehow, the nation manages to elect the most unqualified and unpatriotic individuals to high offices, ensuring these common sense solutions never see the light of the day...