Nigeria Matters

It is easy to forget that Hamza Al-Mustapha, Chief Security Officer to the late General Sani Abacha, is standing trial for allegedly ordering the assassination of Kudirat Abiola, one of …

I am yet to see a man so blessed by fate, yet so adept at frittering away the popular goodwill with which he has been blessed like our own President …

What is wrong with my articles about Amaechi that my admonisher is so embittered with me? His principal even commends most of my works, but my admonisher will never find …

The kindest thing that can be said about President Goodluck Jonathan’s proposal to amend the constitution in order to enshrine a single term of six years for occupants of the …

This latest “kidney-for-money” bazaar by these young, mischievous ones sure continues to hammer the country’s image badly in the international system…

Nigerians have been asking for an explanation why a governor of any state in Nigeria would need a private jet. Some have said that by Amaechi’s rapacious statement, their love …

For the umpteenth time in recent times, there have been discordant calls on appropriate governmental authorities and other prominent stakeholders, to either phase out or restructure the NYSC programme…

The plan to introduce a single six-year term for the offices of the President and Governors is another joke being conceived to further confuse the masses. Such plan is anti-democratic, …

The recent silence from the front has been based on one consideration, the appropriateness of providing space for the President to consider the road map we have previously published…

The messages emanating from Nigeria appear mixed. On one hand, we are witnessing some positive news and on another hand, we are confronted with some serious and dangerous trends in …

Given what governors have done in their respective states across the country, it has become apparent that what matters is not really how wealthy a state or by extension a …

In a sense, the debate over the minimum wage for Nigerian workers raises a more fundamental question: What’s a Nigerian worth? And since there are different kinds of Nigerians, one …

Boko Haram, MEND, bombings, kidnappings, political schemings and all, can only but last a moment. Battered though Nigeria might be by all your efforts…

That I frequently hear Nigerians, educated and exposed, make illogical excuses for Nigeria is unexplainable. This weird idea of rebuffing anybody who dares to ask why Nigeria, in spite of …

Majority of the Rivers masses are today laughing at people like Ige, who saw the Ikoku spare parts market as the only place where poor sanitary condition was in Port …

NTA is an open wound that hurts millions of Nigerians within and beyond the shores of Nigeria and it needs urgent healing; there is no other way of saying it, …