Nigeria Matters

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

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...

The Case of Corruption in Nigeria

Corruption is one of many intractable social pathologies ravaging Nigeria. Corruption is a symptom of deep institutional weakness which leads to inefficient economic, social...

Towards Effective Policing in Nigeria

The Nigerian Police Force is an outdated, inefficient and corruption-ridden institution that lacks the ability to fight crime in the 21st century. The lawlessness of...

The Pastoral Fulani Inferno and Mr President’s Silence

The Fulani (Fula, Fulah, Fulbe, Fellata) is one of the most written about ethnic groups in the world. I am not certain that they...

Salute to Margaret Isioma Osogbue

Nigeria needs help. Like seriously and fast. We all must accept this, especially from the many intractable issues of insecurity, infrastructural decay and the...

The Trouble with Nigeria Is A House

Chinua Achebe has stolen my thunder by stating that the trouble with Nigeria is leadership. In my own book, the trouble with Nigeria is a...

The Future World Order

I cannot rule out the possibility of an invention that will have a fundamental impact on tomorrow’s people much more than how the internet...

Marwa Will Do A Great Job At NDLEA

For those of us in the Diaspora, there is need for absolute caution on how we yield our platforms for some felonious elements who...

The Prophet and the Mad Dogs

Fellow tenants in this mad-house called Nigeria, lend me your ears! Whether Cesar should be buried or praised, is Mark Anthony’s business. Mine is to...

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Insecurity: Again, how did we get to this pass? (1)

The roots of the current crisis stretch deep into...

Nigeria in Political and Spiritual Rejuvenation

The God of vengeance seems to be rocking Nigeria...

How We Destroyed Mike Tyson

Tyson spoke of killing his opponents and eating their children but instead of helping him find help, we rushed to watch his fights, to see him kill his opponents...

Insecurity: where do we go from here?

Have you watched the video clips of the gruesome execution of Lawan Andimi and...

Nigeria’s 55 Years of Independence: Fact or Myth?

     Man has dominated man to his injury                      -...

In Good Company With Berliners

Berlin is the capital of Germany and beneficiary of one of the most expensive rebuilding projects embarked upon by man since the end of the 2nd world war. The much hyped wonderland promised at the collapse of the Berlin wall 17 odd-years ago hasn’t yet materialised...

Countering Nigeria’s Anti-Intellectualism (2)

Nigeria has not developed a culture of celebrating honest, hard-working achievers. Instead we have allowed others to foist upon us a paradoxical anti-intellectual situation in which recognition, indeed the highest National honors, are heaped on former military dictators for shooting themselves into power and looting the national treasury...

The President is a good son of a bad Family

The election is next month and the president is vying for your vote again, unfortunately, he is the good son of a very bad family...

But what really is Nigeria’s problem?

When, in 1814, Europe’s leading statesman, Count Metternich, said...

Separating World Leaders from Dealers

This is the Aquarian Age, the age of spirit consciousness. This Era is the period of the Gentiles, Atonement and the Brotherhood of Man. So, all leaders, in every walk of life must promote the brotherhood of man...