Nigeria Matters

The removal of “Oil Subsidy” is actually a way of punishing Nigerians for the failure of an inept government to effectively fight corruption, not only in the oil industry, but …

Following sober Christmas celebrations in some parts of the country, the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan delivered a frightening New Year gift to Nigerians in the name of fuel subsidy …

What defines the democratic society is the ability of the citizen to exercise freely their vote by electing or deciding who will or should rule over them…

Okay, fellow Nigerians, the good news could as well be that we managed to survive 2011 inspite of Boko Haram, ubiquitous kidnappers and roaming armed robbers, right?! And that we …

As promised by this administration in the 2011, that starting from January 1, 2012 fuel subsidy will be removed, that prediction has come and gone. Monday January 2, 2012, Nigerians …

Mr Jonathan speech confirmed the suspicion of many – our President is indeed belligerent and rather ignorant of the enormity of the cataclysm the country currently faces…

Before our very eyes, parts of Nigeria have been transformed into mini-Baghdads and Kabuls. If you stand in a crowd in many a town in the northern part of Nigeria, …

What the President ought to be looking at right now is how to effectively checkmate the activities of terrorists by using the people they are terrorising against them, including establishing …

What the President ought to be looking at right now is how to effectively checkmate the activities of terrorists by using the people they are terrorising against them, including establishing …

Before he came to be more widely known on a national basis, Chief Bola Ige had exercised executive governance over the old Oyo State between 1979 and 1983. At a …

There is a need to examine the motive as to why the Boko Haram sect restricts its campaign amongst a people to whom they are intrinsically nexus in culture and …

It was my friend who called. In my half-sleep state, I could make out the words “bombing,” “church,” and “Catholic.” I mumbled “hun-hun” and hurriedly hung up. She called back…

See, the lazy man analysis of some kind of sectarian dimension to the ongoing crisis ignores a larger problem: that of indifference that has been rocking our nation since the …

Perhaps, aside from the harrowing experience of the unfortunate 30-month Civil War that raged between 1967 and 1970, which virtually tore apart the nation’s social fabric still dangerously holding the …

To say the least, the submissive and tepid reaction of the Nigerian President to the latest round of violence unleashed on the citizenry by Boko Haram was irksome and left …

The recent death of secessionist General Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu has reawakened the need, alas the urgency, for a Nigerian national debate about this very cataclysmic part of our national history…