Nigeria Matters

Where exactly is the basis for Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s greatness? That question sounds rather blasphemous coming from me, a young post-colonial Igbo who fancies himself a historian of some sorts…

The glorification of the dead Emeka Ojukwu began in Lagos where he grew up and studied in Nigeria like me. As a big fan of Ikemba, I was there at …

How can somebody who called himself a party chairman in a state like Abia not be able to coordinate the party very well? His lack of political dexterity has culminated …

Professor Chinua Achebe, the most influential African writer, a citizen of the world and a respected voice in the world, rejected an award from Nigeria. The issue is not so …

We have deemed it convenient to remind the state government to review from time to time some of its policies to see if they meet with the present realities…

No matter how the Nigerian economic team chooses to shade, equivocate or obfuscate it, the International Monetary Fund played a significant role, if not an upper hand, in the removal …

Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is a patriot with nerve of steel and to her, Nigeria’s potential can be harnessed for the country’s greatness.   Okonjo-Iweala plays an important and critical role in …

Showers of tribute are still being disbursed to the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu who was interred in his ancestral hometown of Nnewi, Anambra State, on the 2nd of March …

By this hour of filing this report (1:50PM), today, 8 March, 2012, some people accompanied by soldiers allegedly from the state government Rivers State stormed Oyigbo, Rivers State, destroying what …

My friend was lamenting what he was convinced was the striking facial resemblance between him and a Boko Haram miscreant who also happens to come from the same State, Borno…

Mbu told me that the then Lieutenant-Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu informed him that the military officers had investigated the bank accounts of the members of the Balewa government and only he …

It was as if Nigeria could not quite make up its mind about the significance of the life and politics of this complex, infuriatingly confounding figure called Ojukwu – until …

Ohakim did not do any better during his reign in Imo State. This was not caused by Kalu, but by his gluttonous and ill-fated perceived approach to politics and governance…

Ibori’s ordeal looks like a replay of the Bayelsa story told above. But it’s more shameful since he successfully evaded the Nigerian legal system, slipped off EFCC, and was bold …

What exactly did the great Chief Obafemi Awolowo do to have gained such status even after death? Like any good administrator, he simply managed what he had and used it …

Over the decades – and these are many decades – opportunities to progress, develop and turn Nigeria into one of the world’s most developed countries were, and are still being, …