Nigeria Matters

Sometimes it seems those selected or elected to rule us are more of aliens than human beings like most of us. This is so because of their inhuman and unsympathetic …

In actuality, all of our democratic leaders have been recruited and put into office by tribal and political warlords. Jonathan is the latest stooge occupying our national centre stage…

The Jonathan presidency, after a humbling score sheet, desires an encore and in this desire and with performance not favouring it, the regime needs every rough tactics to strengthen its …

It is no longer surprising that inordinate ambition, narrow-mindedness and greed have been the causes of insecurity, mindless corruption, poor or bad governance, all culminating in poverty, mediocrity, underdevelopment and …

Achebe damningly portrays Okonkwo as a man incapable of thought, a man who reposes too much faith in his physical prowess but puts no store by wisdom. Yet, there are …

Comrade-Governor Adams Oshiomhole has done his best in changing the fortunes of a great city abandoned and left to rot away by past Governors whose mediocrity had never been in …

When Reuben Abati decided to pitch his tent with the PDP-led government he once abused in his column and other pieces he wrote as a journalist, the blogosphere extensively abused …

Whether there was a plan to impeach Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State or not, let there be peace. No people develop in the face of crisis…

Many newsmen have been detained in Nigeria by the authorities without trial, or any judicial or legal authorisation followed…

There are professional politicians in Nigeria, whose morbid preoccupation is with how to become President.  This alluring obsession with power is insatiable and ill-defined…

The changing nature of Nigerian politics now opens the door into disclosures of matters that were hidden in the closet of time…

There was an announcement made by the Abia State Government in July 2012. It told the world that it would partner with a German company on waste management project in …

It is horrendous how the Federal Government okays amnesty for a terrorist group such as Boko Haram, even by going on its knees to beg…

Apart from the role he played during the first ever musical reality show for orphanages organised by Melody Shelters in collaboration with Adonis Productions, to being a major facilitator of …

I’ve lived in America for more than twenty years. It’s a society that automatically views the caning of children as a form of abuse, bordering on torture. Make no mistake: …

I start with our marginalized under-class.  They are those who did not have the benefit of enlightenment in their youth…