Nigeria Matters

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, …

There is, indeed, no gainsaying the fact that the age-long aphorism, “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail” becomes much relevant considering the observably untoward socio-economic realities cum …

I don’t know how many people see through the present effort by the PDP to finish off what is left of the judiciary after the scandalous manipulation that saw to …

Futuristic promises of Nirvana in Nigeria have been the historical, political practices among Nigerian rulers. Because the people are complacent, trusting and full of prayerful hope, they have failed to …

As Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Dikedioramma, Eze Igbo gburugburu returns to the timeless terrestrial, the Ndigbo will forever be awed and serenaded by the aura, bravery, charisma, confidence, defiance, intellect, …

A former President, of United States of America, Bill Clinton recently observed how the continued religious and economic grievances are fueling fear, terror, insecurity and instability in Nigeria…

May we be protected from bombs and bullets and curses of many. May we not relent in our efforts to build a conscientious country and world…

Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi bears the burden of our generation; with his several awards, a renewed hope for our fatherland. He is one of a very few articulate leaders of …