Nigeria Matters

The 2011 elections have come and gone. Winners and losers have been declared-and members of the Judiciary are pungently salivating. The president of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan, has already offered a …

Zoning as a concept has its pros and cons especially in a multi-composite society like Nigeria. We co-habit in a society but divided in a variety of ways…

It is palpable today that the South-East zone of Nigeria is looking for its good luck in the political equation of President Goodluck Jonathan…

Since the call from ‘The Nigerian Front’ to the organs of government and to Nigerian electorate, the Presidency has moved to reduce the excessive monetary allowances, which the members of …

There are times when an angry but wise man realizes that he is responsible, either by omission or commission, for the pains being inflicted on him by his adversary…

The Aboki guy that sells suya in my neighborhood had a better legal understanding than the lawmakers with the world’s highest wages…

Apart from being a crowned prince of the Amachree dynasty in the Kalabari Kingdom of Rivers State and also the ‘new face of Rivers politics’, as many people describe him …

From what David-West has been writing, it is no news that it didn’t take him sixty years to discover that he had a talent for writing and could not give …

APGA’s poor showing on the recent Nigerian elections may be due lack of strategic planning and absence of Dim Ikemba Ojukwu…

Chief Christopher Adebayo Alao-Akala, the outgoing Governor of Oyo State is a disturbed man. His valorous stand off to the imperial conceit of Ibadan social, intellectual and traditional elite is …

In the absence of clear and complete explanation and indeed justification of any government action, people are left with no alternative but to speculate. Consequently, a lot of possible reasons …

For some days now, we were recipients of the much acclaimed, generally well deserved, received and respected news that Owelle Rochas Okorocha will be helming the government of Imo State…

Every generation is often presented with opportunities to offer definition, scope and direction to its nation.  This extends to the construction of defining values, the anchoring of the nation’s progress and …

Nigeria is the economic powerhouse of West Africa and the giant of Africa. Nigeria as a nation and as a people can no longer afford to shy away from their …

Nigeria’s human refinements index must be measured and re-calibrated by how Nigerians and Nigeria take care of the poor, the most under-privileged and how we honor our dead…

Basking in the euphoria of the massive votes the region gave to President Goodluck Jonathan during the April 16 presidential election, some members of the National Assembly from the zone …