Nigeria Matters

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…

Abia State in south-east Nigeria is known as “God’s Own State” with Umuahia as the capital city. The Executive Governor is one ‘Ochendo’ Theodore Ahamefule Orji who made some history …

Those who have been calling for revolution in Nigeria do not mean well for Nigeria. Some are disgruntled elements who are not well-placed any more in the scheme of things …

When you compare Jerome Cahuzac with the profligate Governor of Akwa Ibom state, for example, you are likely going to come out with what is wrong with us as a …

If we want to be honest then we cannot but admit that Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, is not the only leading political figure in Nigeria indictable for manipulating …

These days, I get easily angered by events happening in Nigeria. But probably nothing has riled me more than the latest garbage that emanated from the warped orifice of Reuben …

I first saw that irresponsible phrase on Facebook after those bokoharamic bombs began to fall on churches in the North. Our people were aghast at the seeming inability of the …

A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and, at times god-like public image, often through unquestioning flattery …

About two or three weeks ago, one court in one oyinbo country gave judgement against four Nigerian farmers in the Niger-Delta. Their farms, their only sources of livelihood were destroyed …

Before I walked the corridors of power briefly in 2010, I wrote articles as sharp as barbed wire nearly all a denunciation of government. I was saying all of these …

In Nigeria, between 1990 and 2010, there was significant increase in the poverty level, the percentage of people living at an income of less than $1 a day sharply increased …

I believe that the office of president anywhere there’s a democracy is a weak office. The chap occupying it equally is weak as well if truly the principles of fiscal …

In the Nigeria political conclave, with particular reference to Port Harcourt – the capital city of Rivers State – there abound different crop of politicians that represent  one, two or …