Nigeria Matters

Like many of the failed or failing states, elections in Nigeria do not provide a just and veritable platform for its teeming masses to change an abysmally bad system of …

Since 1960, our Federal Republic has been injured very often by criminal conducts. Lawlessness has been rife, lawlessness has been on the rise and the serpents of illusion have crawled …

Just when I was thinking of expressing comradeship with the courageous men and women in Lagos State who were planning to continue the street protests that greeted the removal of …

Our budgeting system in both the federal and state levels have become a joke. It is skewed heavily towards recurrent expenditures to sustain the exuberant and extravagant lifestyle of our …

After one week of mass protest, the “irreversible and irreducible” federal government has balked; the voice of the people which was misunderstood but not taken for granted has impacted the …

What if Southern Christians insisted on protecting their Southern “Moderate” Muslims and Protested together?

Even in death, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti was larger than life. “I no be gentleman at all oh. I no be gentleman at all oh,” sang an angry wave of protesters among …

Why should Nigerians trust you and your government to reduce infant and maternal mortality rates and improve the country’s infrastructure when you can’t handle the simple task of identifying a …

Squandering of the goodwill of the good people of Nigeria! The spontaneous goodwill the Nigerian people had for President Jonathan has been squandered irretrievably. The Aso Rock lord has unwittingly …

This Jonathan is made up of people who have so far shown themselves incapable of understanding or caring for Nigerians and the more they talk the worse they seem. For …

If we agree that the best way to lead is to lead by example, we should then agree that in this mother of all sacrifices, the Presidency and the National …

The police are the entry point into the criminal justice system and the effectiveness of the system resides in the effectiveness of the police system as well as its other …

When a state, constituency or country is issued a bad leader, we grin and bear it for four interminable years. That needs to change. We need a process whereby bad …

It has been widely reported in the media that Nobel Laureate and social activist, Professor Wole Soyinka and Yale educated economist, Olu Falae have declared their intention to convene a …

The Nigerian police has a fearsome reputation for excessive use of force and extrajudicial killings. Annual reports from local and international human rights organisations document, in a gruesome parade of …

We have taken stock of the grave national crises we face and we of The Nigerian Front, after a process of consultation and reflection, have come up with a roadmap …