Nigeria Matters

As the clock continues to tick towards the coveted 2011 general elections in Nigeria, political activities have resumed in full earnest. And, expectedly, the concomitant intrigues have continued to, by …

On my way to the office, a bit close to the Yar’Adua centre, I notice that the ground shook after a thunderous blast – twice.  I looked up in the …

How could a man so graceful and rich in his humanity, so accomplished yet so gregarious and approachable, a man possessed of the deepest, most resonant laughter I ever heard …

There is something about Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia state, which sticks to your face, making it almost impossible to ignore him, while at the same time alarming …

These are very delicate times in Nigeria. The challenge of another peaceful democratic transition through democratic elections early next year – 2011, stares us in the face…

I have never met with President Jonathan before, and I am not interested in meeting him personally. But I claim a right to reply to Amuta’s vitriol because I am …

Many foreigners with close ties to Nigeria often wonder how Nigerians manage to take life easy even in a myriad of poor infrastructure and bad leadership…

Last night 33 Nigerian miners were trapped underground and the government decided to send a Nigerian capsule down to rescue them one after the other…

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s demeanour is somewhat less presidential than should be expected. He has achieved greatness by providential streak of goodluck which is rare in the African political history, …

Let’s look at what 50 years of uninterrupted rule by men has brought Nigeria: civil war, one million dead bodies in the space of 3 years, systematized corruption, destruction of …

The recent blocking of a planned meeting of the Igbo Political Forum (IPF), which was to take place at the Banquet Hall of Hotel Concorde, Owerri, on Monday September 27, …

While the nation was still enthralled by the gory details of security inertia and paralysis occasioned by the state of lawlessness in Abia state, Nigerians were again woken to another …

For the umpteenth time, the good people of Ekiti State await the judiciary to give them desired justice in the electoral disputation over the 2007 governorship election…

When a community is tagged underdeveloped, it is the human beings who populate such community that are being described. It is against this background that it becomes imperative to sit …

If anybody needed some dire sign that Nigeria has little to show for the first fifty years of its life, a particularly disturbing and bloody one was given last Friday…

Officially, three of us – Balewa, Zik and me – were invited a few months ago to grace this golden occasion of our great nation, but we decided not to …