Nigeria Matters

A people without shame do not regard honour. This is what the government in Abia State and its agents have turned out to become…

It has been a challenge for me to write this. Several times I tried to write this piece but each time my emotional strength failed me. The reality, however, is …

I never met Ojukwu when he was alive. But every historian and other researchers worth their brief know that you need not know your subject personally to write about him …

The 21st century modern Government is a vast business whose activities directly or indirectly impinge on the lives of every Nigerian citizen in the country. It is often the largest …

When critical national issues threatening our fragile federation unity is discussed, emotions and partisan outburst overpower and configure the response and outcome to the issue…

Ordinarily, who becomes the chairperson of a non-statutory organization like the Nigerian Governors’ Forum should not evoke any public commentaries because it does not confer on who becomes the Chairperson …

Once again, Nigeria has entered an awful, familiar season. The country’s air is rent with talk of power. Not electric power, no; we’re talking raw political power! And the general …

In the area of corruption, this administration has become the most corrupt and inept leadership since the military era. Many professional political praise singers are quick to argue that the …

Upon my return to Lagos in February, 1974, I was commissioned by the US Embassy in Lagos to interview the author of Things Fall Apart, for publication in their magazine…

I do not completely agree that the cause of the  Nigerian predicament is corruption. Corruption, I agree is a problem in this country, but it is just a symptom of …

In the couple of months following his death up to his burial, the world has risen in unison to celebrate Chinua Achebe as a man universally acclaimed to be the …

Had the notion occurred to, and the possibility existed for, Kelvin Ighodalo to have sought the counsel of a Careers’ Adviser prior to embarking upon his chosen career, for which …

British colonialism built roads, established networks of communications, and established bureaucratic jobs that encouraged – or forced – people to wander outside their immediate natal addresses. Yet, wherever they went …

The world of security and strategic thinking is not for the fickle minded; neither is it for the “go along” person. In this world, knee jerk reactions are often not …

Part of Okonkwo’s curse is to lack the mental wherewithal to realize how the white man, though outnumbered, has nevertheless radically transformed Umuofia. Achebe’s tragic hero goes to his death …

After reading Nasir El-Rufai’s The Accidental Public Servant, I anticipated that many people would have something to say about the book. Those people who have implicated in the book have …