Nigeria Matters

A few years ago, I found myself lusting after a young lady from Ogun State.  She had a body and a backside that simply made a man’s eyes water.  You …

This piece is not about religion, but about the law of life. It is about the recklessness and impunity with which those who hold the reins of power in Nigeria …

I believe that the time has come for Nigeria to move from being a giant on paper to being a real one in Africa. I believe that to do this, …

Femi Fani-Kayode, the 53-year-old son of “Fani-Power,” continues in the mischievous tradition of his father: throwing dangerous missiles at the innocent. He recently wrote an incendiary article entitled: “The Bitter …

Lagos State belongs as much to the ethnic Igbo as to the Yoruba, Ijaw, Hausa, Fulani, Efik, Idoma, Urhobo, Itshekiri, Edo, and so on who live in it, pay tax, …

Many Nigerians know today that the Gov. Theodor Ahamefule Orji administration in Abia State is an expert in telling lies and in the use of propaganda to discredit opposing views…

At the inception of the administration of Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, he initiated a ‘Bring Back the Book’ programme – the assumption once more was that our people had replaced the …

Modern cities thrive on integration, not excluivism. If Yoruba residents in Owerri are hounded by the Imo State government I will condemn it. Lagos is not ‘no man’s land.’ Every …

Why is our nation, home to brilliant minds, rich traditions, rich in natural and mineral resources and centuries of wisdom, culture and morality, withering in poverty while most other nations …

Since February 14 when the National Assembly conducted a public hearing on the dastardly murder of Olaitan Oyerinde, we have not heard the outcome. And that is why we must …

Ordinarily, one would have dismissed Fani-Kayode’s vituperations as the ranting of a sick mind because no sane person can celebrate the slaughtering of fellow human beings in their thousands as …

Fani-Kayode wrote that the Igbo introduced tribalism in Southern Nigerian politics. He capitalised on the statements of Charles Daddy Onyeama and Nnamdi Azikiwe to buttress this charge. Onyeama allegedly declared …

It is good to live in harmony and happiness. These were the words coming from an ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, when a select of journalists approached …

In this land of ours if the police breach your rights, the intervention of deities cannot save you. Woe betides you therefore if the police and the lawyers take you …

It is not gentlemanly the statement that was credited to Barr. Ezebunwo Nyesom Wike, the junior Minister of Education on August 3, 2013, at his Grassroots Development Initiative (GDI) rally …

Are we indeed vulnerable individually and collectively? For me, if I am to respond to that question, I would do so first of all by juxtaposing and contextualising the idea …