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...

Is Governor Obaseki walking his talk on human capital development in Edo State?

Are there any indications that Edo State governor, Godwin Obaseki may walk his policy talk concerning human capital development in Edo State? From inception...

#ENDSARS: Facts Protests Revealed About Nigeria

Some weeks ago, the youthful segment of the Nigerian population staged series of peaceful protest marches across some of the country’s major cities, calling...

SARS, EndSARS and the need for thorough Police Reform

The recent nationwide mass protests by angry Nigerian youths against police brutality and other extrajudicial misdemeanors by operatives of the force, which culminated in...

#EndSARS Protests – A Call for Restraint

A belief is not just an acceptance that something exists or is true, with or without proof. It is much more than that. We...

Looted COVID-19 Palliatives: Federal, State Governments Have Failed Nigerians

On the heels of the recent #EndSARS protests in Nigeria, mobs of angry citizens overran several government-owned warehouses and looted food items meant to be distributed to the poor and vulnerable...

Why Government must stop its Clampdown on #EndSARS Protesters

The recent, largely peaceful #EndSARS protests across several Nigerian cities against police brutality has inadvertently revealed the country’s several visceral sores, consequent to the...

Christmas 2020 Is Postponed

After the minutes of the EndSARS meeting was written, read and adopted, there are plenty matters arising, and these matters are not funny at...

Nigeria: Situational Tribalists and a Naïve Populace

I have said it so several times that when Nigerian politicians converge to map out plans for acquiring power, which, in most cases, practically...

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Lagos: A Vortex of Secret Stories

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Before 2face Idibia’s Protest March

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Femi Fani-Kayode Needs our Love!

"Buhari’s son accident, a sign from God for Buhari...

Obasanjo: A Once-In-A-Life Time Opportunity Lost

The third term agenda as I predicted has already failed. This article is my own post mortem on Obasanjo’s worst mistake as a leader and statesman...

Valentine Love Song

Some diabolical male chauvinists out there are making bad...

Nigeria: A State of Dystopia?

Nigeria is a beautiful nation inching into a state...

Utomi’s Bid Is An Asset

Regardless of Obasanjo's achievements or failures, many people saw the third-term bid as an attempt to breach the contract between the elected and electors, a violation of the rules of engagement...

Nigeria: A Unique Nation or an Oddity?

There is something about the way Nigeria operates that often seems to defy proven theoretical assumptions and the working patterns of most of the rest of the world...

Issues from Obama’s visit to Ghana

Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, the twosome who rule two of the formerly greatest nations on the face of this planet are two of a kind. Both are lawyers, both are in their early forties, and both have told the world that they are unwilling to re-open the old wounds that capitalism and communism unleashed on post World War II affairs...

Okey Ndibe's Passport Seizure: A test of our predictable elasticity

My prior experience with the SSS predicted a termination of my self-imposed literary intermission. Not for the sake of furlough for furlough’s sake though. These political days make the graduation from scrawling to partaking, reckonable...