Nigeria Matters

The recent, far-reaching resolution of the Federal Government of Nigeria to urge the Executive Cabinet Ministers in the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Administration to sign performance contracts with the Presidency is …

With Ajimobi, the jury is still out. So far and so early, it appears to be a mixed bag. We have a governor who has embarked on a deliberate effort …

When a people cultivate denial of an event, even a deeply traumatic one, they – at the very least – risk blundering into the same mistakes over and over. Nigeria …

Corruption is good business to the participants and those who profit from it. I am not talking about official government corruption, but also private and public sector, and even the …

‘Hehehehe……heheheh…..who no know go know. So you no know say Abuja they monitor all you diaspora writers who write critical pieces about GEJ and his cabinet? PA is the talk …

Offline and online, I’ve received volumes of messages from friends far and near inquiring about the flood that almost submerged my city and hometown, Ibadan…

Since in a participatory democracy the politician needs the political party more than the political party needs the politician, it would be difficult to imagine a vibrant democracy without competing …

Selfish and corrupt godfathers, inept politicians, military cabals and their cronies have taken control of leadership positions for many years…

Biafra is back in the news in a big way, thanks, in large measure, to the recent death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple…

Our notes will be incomplete if we do not pause to invite some reflections upon the recently concluded Local Government elections that took place in Lagos, the economic and financial …

Recently I was in Nigeria.  Right about the middle of my stay, my younger brother on his way to work one early morning was accosted by three smartly-dressed men of …

As you read this piece, chances are you already have got wind of the looming chaos that next January will usher in for every lower-class Nigerian…

Lt Gen Onyeabo Azubike Ihejirika,  a well-known student of The Art of War, adopting the powerful Sun Tzu strategy of silence, is fast transforming and repositioning the Nigerian Army into …

Jonathan has a way of tapping hands perceived to have capabilities to deliver. And he may well know where to put them too; round pegs in round holes that is. …

We did not call for break-up of Nigeria when Awolowo was rigged out of Nigerian Presidency in 1983. Yet the late sage’s family magnanimously overlooked it when we jumped from …

Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission right now faces three serious hurdles as it goes about to transform and reposition electricity regulation in Nigeria…