Nigeria Matters

For decades now, Nigeria as a sovereign nation has been battling with the disturbing issue of phantom names on Government personnel payroll and in pensions audit results…

Corruption in Nigeria has become so widespread with its depleting effect on the economic development of the country that insistence on legalism in the war against it may at times …

After listening to Mr. President’s budget speech, I couldn’t control my happiness because it was as if the President had just read my mind. Here are some of the things …

Good governance is good. It is only achieved when a leader makes up his mind with good intentions to lead. The people will be beneficiaries. They will always wish such …

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 …