Nigeria Matters

What is happening in Rivers State in terms of development is wonderful. When you go around some of the work sites, what you see is the hand of Satan is …

The Abia State Government recently said that its tribal work policy was not intended for Rivers State indigenes. This was after it banned the civil servants who are not from …

With the unsettling, rife social tensions resulting from biting poverty, youth unemployment, hunger, inflation, power failure, insecurity of lives and property and social dislocations across the land, the Federal Government …

Greed and callousness seem to be at the heart of the crusade to hike the price of fuel products. The argument has been made, at the state and national levels, …

Nothing best exemplifies the state of Nigeria’s leadership than the dilapidating state of the gateway to the nation, the Murtala Mohammed Airport, Ikeja. An airport that sits strategically as not …

Nigerian senate has just passed a bill outlawing same-sex marriage as well as banning public displays of affection between homosexual couples. Approval of the bill, which still must be voted …

Prince Tonye Princewill’s congratulatory letter to The Management of the Rivers State Newspapers Corporation on its 40th anniversary of the publication of The Tide Newspapers, made a good read…

Rivers State is falling into serious environmental chaos, even though the residents are calm and peace loving…

Nigeria is a nation run on the erratic brainwave of those that have succeeded in cornering state power. Here, the attention span of both the leaders and the led is …

In life, Ojukwu was at once a spellbinding presence and approachable; he was both charismatic and truly larger than life. One measure of Ojukwu’s stature as a historical figure is …

I was angry as a child because my uncles and big brothers shared with nostalgia the dream of what Biafra could have been, had Gowon not marshaled all the forces …

When we look back and forward to the present day Nigeria and how it is being run to the ground by the corrupt, hypocritical, religious and tribal fanatics, then perhaps …

There’s no question that Nigeria’s national honors register has been thoroughly cheapened, bastardized and drained of meaning. The annual conferral of national honors has become a farce, a charade that …

One thing that is certain as day and night is that our leaders are not concerned about the future; never concerned about the future of their country and people. They …

I waited gallingly for the roll callers to list out the names of the slain corps members; the true heroes and heroine of our new democratic dispensation, who were dastardly …

Since her second coming into office as Minister of finance and coordinator national economic management team, Dr Okonjo-Iweala has, through her deeds and utterances, made the issue of the sovereign …