Nigeria Matters

Yesterday was April Fool Day, but twenty fours hours later, we’re still making fools of ourselves in full public glare…

Economy shapes cities. It’s dwelling pattern, transit arrangement, but for Nigeria; spending spree of our politicians and quenching the reviving spirits of our economy has deterred the trend…

A spectre is haunting our fatherland. What a spectre!, that is occasioned by the palpable atmosphere of discontent, feelings of dispossession, sense of abandonment and ignominy of existence…

I am casting my vote for this Nigerian leaders – Buhari and Pastor Tunde Bakare. As a detribalized Nigerian, I implore those who would want true federalism in this country …

Since politicians play very significant roles in the administrative processes, especially having hands in thousands of  important laws and policies affecting their communities and country, they should be well-educated, modest, …

The Man GEJ is as confused as any Nigerian; knowing what is best to do in order to emancipate Nigerians from a high level of moral, economic, political and socio-cultural …

In less than three days, precisely on Saturday, April 2, Nigerians will, again, troop to the polls to elect new leaders for the various legislative and executive positions at both …

One can in all honesty say the government’s fight against corruption ended with the death of Umar Yar’Adua. Jonathan’s government should start fighting embezzlement of public funds…

I have long nursed a profound disquiet about the prospects and direction of Nigeria, but two recent encounters have crystallized for me the particular shape and depth of the country’s …

The Igbo have come out to state their support for Jonathan. The apex Igbo organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has officially endorsed Jonathan. They don’t have much option anyway. The other candidates …

A Nigerian jurisprudence has not taken root to deal with our wrong social values, the entrenched negative ethos, the disparity in the wage structure and the revenue allocation system, these …

Recently, a close ally of Ibori and Uduaghan made some confessions. And this is one who we thought did not only share with the duo the underpinning crude dynamics that …

Princewill wanted genuine peace in the Niger Delta and in Nigeria, and because of that, he had granted newsmen interviews on how to better the region. Without doubt, as a …

Regrettably, African leaders of today are still backward and blind to the economic misfire of the West and their Asian Marauders. Old age has eaten deep into the emancipatory consciousness …

It is evident that revisionist politics of blackmail and the use of deceit to cover up facts of history underlie Jonathan Goodluck’s attempts at becoming…

The incapacitation of the indigenes given contracts to deliver in Rivers State is the greatest of Amaechi’s dilemma. Because they are indigenes, Amaechi has found it very hard to be …