Nigeria Matters

Over the last few months, both the print and electronic media have been going on and on about the forthcoming general elections. This is a good development because the next …

In democracy, the way we communicate matters a lot and a leader will have to influence a lot of people. As a rational citizen, we need to watch out for …

There are uncountable royal highnesses, high chiefs, double chiefs, triple chiefs, etcetera, in our localities.  ‘Chieftancy title’ may well be a Nigerian phrase. There may be more Rotarians, Lions, ‘Sirs’ …

Jega is manifesting incompetence. He collected about N90b for the conduct of the 2011 elections. Next he asked for N6b for a one-week extension of the voter’s registration…

What story would I be telling to draw attention to the roads taking forever to construct in ‘Abuja’? Hmmm, let me think. Yes, I will tell two, no three…

Cries and complaints can never and will never solve any problem. Never allow any distraction in your life. Distractions are factors that do not motivate you…

Do you fancy being the Chairman of your Local Government Area?  Well, the general administrative and operational setup of LGAs in Nigeria has changed.   Conceptually, LGAs are supposed to be …

Ours is a revolution against waste, fraud and abuse and the vampires who have held Nigerians in political and economic bondage for fifty years. It is a revolution for accountability …

There is something I have noticed with job advertisements in Nigeria that absolutely winds me up. It is the blatant age discrimination displayed by both National and Multinational firms…

As emancipated and forward thinking as some of us may claim to be, we fail to realise that more than half of the Nigerian populace falls within the periphery of …

We should insist that all traitors of the Nigerian people be held to account, in Nigeria and elsewhere. But since some Nigerian judges are blinder than bats, we ought to …

Princewill has helped in unburdening the Rivers State masses of the legacy of the sordid political past, launching into the future with renewed hope to secure a better future for …

With a pledge to be a servant-leader to the people of Bayelsa State, Mr. Timi Alaibe, the governorship candidate of the Labour Party in the state, recently flagged off his …

It is the insatiable greed and lust for power that is mostly behind our intractable penchant for corruption. We have come to use our Tribal and Political differences only as …

Since the political and constitutional upheaval in Tunisia, followed by Egypt and now Libya, Jordan, Bahrain, Yemen and so on, some Nigerians have publicly commented that Nigerians can only dream …

A base philosophy of life is an important driver. What we have now is that which says, ‘steal before others get to it, cheat before you get cheated and that …