Nigeria Matters

The debate over Lagos State’s deportation of some Igbo elements to Anambra State has done two things at once. One, it has underlined the shakiness of the idea of one …

There is general uneasiness and peace of the graveyard in Nigeria. The current state of the nation is disturbing to all concerned citizens who genuinely believe in the structural giant …

Over the years, I have patiently observed with pity the regular ignorant assertions by some persons who appropriate to themselves knowledge of things they know little or nothing about in …

The deportation of Ndigbo from Gov. Babatunde Fashola’s Lagos State has generated a lot of comments and is still generating more, with the ex-Governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor …

The abysmal inadequacy of public primary school teachers in Ngor Okpala local government area should be a source of concern to all who hold the education of their wards close …

The fight in Rivers State, which Amaechi is fighting, should not been seen as his lone fight, but a fight for a true Rivers State…

A lot has been happening lately in Rivers State: From pro-Governor Chibuike Amaechi protesters to anti-Amaechi protesters and the fight at the House of Assembly…

This is a man who has left the comfort of his zone to champion for the security and peace of Nigeria and by extension, for the emancipation of Ndigbo in …

It is important to say that Al-Mustapha has been detained since 1998 when he was arrested. As sudden as the death of his boss appeared, so also was the announcement …

In the process of deepening our embryonic democracy, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan since elected as president by a wide margin of votes cutting across the six geo-political zones that make the …

However one sees it, the escalating, man-made crisis in Rivers State portends real and grave danger to the dysfunctional democracy we have been slaving under for the past fourteen years…

I was about to write another article dealing with Africans’ penchant for power, abuse and perpetuation in power, and then our First Lady’s excesses caught my imagination instead, and in …

Lady Orji should have known and understood that it is not everybody in our state that has money like her family before she called and tasked corporate bodies and individuals …

In any locality, state or country where the leader is weak, not as a result of old age, but out of incompetence, such an environment is bound to grow weaker …

The state capital of Rivers is undergoing another political crisis. That is neither a novelty, nor particularly significant. The treasure-base routinely seems to set-in the throes of emergency…

When I met Governor Rotimi Amaechi, I was, in the words of an anonymous writer, looking down. When I left him, however, I was looking up. Besides the notorious or …