Nigeria Matters

Everywhere you look inside Nigeria, violence seems to be gaining currency. We see the common theme of provocation leading to violence, pain, death, destruction, disrespect for law and order, collective …

Nigeria is presently governed and populated by rudderless leadership – and as well by such terrible followership to the extent of being led by the nostrils like some Elizabethan or …

It was reported widely last month that General Yakubu Gowon said that he supported the pardon of some jailed Nigerian citizens…

Before 2015 Nigeria can still be saved but we must urge collective vigilance and profound efforts in the resolution of the Nigerian project crisis. The best way to go about …

At the age of twelve, Achebe moved away from his family to the village of Nekede, four kilometres from  Owerri. He enrolled as a student at the Central School, where …

The Abia State Government-led by Governor Theodore Orji, without equivocation, sees lies as the best policy to replace good governance with…

Have Nigerians become depressed and feeble human beings who are out of touch with reality because of politics?

I had the rare honor and luck of being close to the revered Achebe for some thirty years. In that time, he was an inspiration, model, beacon of moral clarity …

As one of my friends will say, the greatest affliction is a self-chosen blindness just because it cannot be cured unless the person so afflicted decides to free himself from …

Imo PDP, that rustic club of free loaders, is angry. The members are weeping and gnashing their teeth. They are swearing and cursing. Chei, they want the good old days …

That the APC acronym has suddenly become the ‘beautiful bride’ being wooed by every Dick and Harry must send the clear message across of our degeneration as a nation. The …

It was the publication of There Was A Country that served as my sole premonition of the imminent death of my father Chinua Achebe. When he published it, my first …

I’m writing on behalf of disenfranchised Nigerians. I’m writing to bring to the attention of those in government that millions of our frustrated youth and their powerless parents have nowhere …

President Goodluck Jonathan’s pardon for Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha is expectedly eliciting quite a lot of surprise, indignation and condemnation. Public commentators and individual citizens have used the media to express …

A few years ago, I worked with a Nigerian who said that “The problem with Nigeria is food”. That guy, to me, is neither crazy nor completely wrong. For the …

As I am writing this I keep on thinking: What kind of a people are we Nigerians? What the heck is the matter with us? What manner of men and …