Nigeria Matters

The same government that had told us that it had sent crime into exile was the same government that recently set up an inter-agency committee geared to examine the racketeering …

I have thoroughly studied General Olusegun Obasanjo’s terse 18-page letter to President Goodluck Jonathan. The letter dealt with the state of the nation, the disintegrating political  party, the PDP, the …

Last week, Transparency International, the global anti-corruption watchdog released its ranking of world corruption among countries. Nigeria was ranked the 25th most corrupt nation on earth…

It’s strongly alleged that Great Ogboru wants to contest the 2015 guber election in Delta. For a man who has hitherto contested severally, got the people’s mandate all such times …

There is no need for a microscope to know that definitely, so many things are wrong with Gov. Orji and his government. And unless these perceived wrongs are corrected, Abia …

Politicians are schemers. Their effective involvement or participation in any deliberation or legislation depends on the “benefit” they expect as an individual or the anticipated benefits to their constituency. In …

Whatever the government calls development is not development in the real sense of the word. Gov. T.A. Orji is bent on developing his friends and cronies without acquiring immeasurable values …

It is midday already, and there are stabbing reports of robbery attacks at different locations in the city. One knifing report says a group of shoppers were leisurely dispossessed of …

I tried to find out from the protesting militants the reason behind the anger. I am ashamed to write that they said they were angry that after the training, the …

When the future of a nation is left swathed up in warts in the hands of platoons of tomfoolery and retrogrades, a double-edged sword of endemic and pandemic automatically become …

Population and size being the two greatest factors which conferred on her a leadership role, in addition to her ever growing cache of resources resulting from the oil boom, Nigeria …

By intellectual content, I mean that fulcrum where one finds and interlocks philosophical, legal, political and sundry ideas that assist humans to form the synthesis for solving societal problems…

Nigeria is not a nation – not a nation like the English or French or the Welsh. It is a geographical entity and contraption sold to the British government by …

When in 1999 an apparently diabolical team swarmed into government in Delta State we little expected that their vicious and dreadful siege on our treasury would last for sixteen years…

One thing about impartial, dead reality is that ubiquitous tragedies – feared guests you hate to have at your table – imperiously find their uncheerful, rugged routes to your life …

Ngwa people, who are much respected in not only Abia State, but to a great extent in Nigeria, are on the verge of losing their respect. Their barefaced endorsement of …