Nigeria Matters

Governance in Nigeria has been dysfunctional for decades. In my wanderings through life, I have found that most people are troubled by the current state of politics in Nigeria, but …

How can you say they are not performing, when heavy duty trucks come in to cart away the broken tar to sand-fill some godfather plots in Lekki? You should see …

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan clearly went out-of-line with his utterances. While his camp might do damage control by claiming that he was quoted out of context, had a slip of …

In Nigeria, history has consistently shown that the people who cast the votes decide nothing; it is those who count, that is, rig, the votes that decide everything. This is …

Without much emphasis, it is in the news that King TJT Princewill is the first Professor to be anointed a King in Rivers State and also the first Kalabari King …

The people of Nigeria are pinning their hopes that their plight and wishes are addressed by the next government regardless of the ethnicity-trend…

Rather than mouth the Happy New Year greeting like I used to at the beginning of each year, I’d rather keep my mouth shut.  And pray and hope harder. Pray …

Look at the predicament of the Nigerian-American columnist and professor who came home recently. The security people seized both his passports and asked him to report for an interrogation. When …

Nigerians are electing new leaders this year (2011). Therefore, it makes sense that all eligible adults should participate and get involved with the electoral processes. Make sure you vote and …

Whether INEC was made by way of carrot or just conned to blast us with the recent make-belief Delta rerun election result is still debatable? What is, however, not debatable …

For me, the bombs that were flying around, the killings that wore the hood of religion, and the kidnappings that resonated across the land, were all symptomatic of the disease …

In order to confront the economic downturn, the whole world has resorted to expansionary monetary policy, reducing interest rates to historical low in order to jumpstart the economy, enhance financial …

There is much evident psychology behind the rigging of the last Delta rerun elections. So palpable almost everybody in Delta state and Nigeria, and very lately much of the rest …

The stunning revelation that the Independent National Electoral Commission lacks a central server that will be able to detect incidences of multiple registrations in the ongoing voter registration should worry …

Though Obasanjo has a messiah complex and in self glorification allowed sycophants during his administration to continuously refer to him as ‘father of modern Nigeria’, nothing could be farther from …

How do you intend to continue to subsidise fuel while simultaneously encouraging private sector participation in the downstream sector? What plans do you have for revamping of our refineries? Removing …