Nigeria Matters

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 …

The justice of the courts of law in Nigeria must be weighed carefully, so that the truth can set us free. Election by the people is the only way any …

President Jonathan seems to have hit the ground running. This is so because Nigerians unanimously gave him the mandate to be the president for the next four years…

Since independence Nigeria has been in the hands of the majority tribes, and more specifically in the hands of the majority tribe. We have only seen situations were government in …

Mr. Jonathan’s circumstances are as tricky as Mr. Obasanjo’s in 1999, and his prospects, on the face of it, seem just as unpromising as the former president’s…

Governor Obi cannot afford to give lip service to the issue of refuse collection and disposal because the wellbeing of the residents of Onitsha and Anambra State will be greatly …

Ideas and innovations do not wait until resources are available to act. Rather they are the precursors of capital and resources…

Governor Ohakim assumed office with such pomp and panache that reinvigorated hopes and enthusiasm in the minds of Imo people who had been cruelly short-changed in the immediate past; but …

The recent strident and repeated calls on the Federal Government of Nigeria by a broad spectrum of the population to review, or completely scrap the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) …

What is the cost of life to human creation? Health is often neglected when it is supposed to be accorded an important place; a lorry load of people die almost …

The just concluded 2011 general elections in Nigeria have been widely acclaimed to be successful but not without the usual problems, drama and controversies which characterize Nigeria’s elections since independence…

Nigerian electorates are getting wiser by the day and can no longer be taken for granted. Politicians must learn to come forward and speak on issues that matter most to …

The people cannot be ruled by force, and tyrants can never be part of democracy. The All Progressive Grand Alliance in Rivers State had said that the April 9 National …

Unless we want to deceive ourselves or we genuinely fail to see reality then we must accept that the voters that went to the polls last week to decide who …

Unless the equivalent of a judicial earthquake happens, it is safe to assume that Goodluck Jonathan is going to spend the next four years at the helm of Nigerian affairs. …