Nigeria Matters

It’s high time we faced the bitter truth which is that the North and the South are two completely different and incompatible bed-fellows who were forced to live together by …

We may not develop and diversify our economy if we continue to rely on oil as the mainstay of our economy and source of foreign exchange. We need to diversify …

To say the current Presidency is embattled will be a glaring understatement. Isn’t the tell tale signs of a beleaguered Presidency evident in this breakneck and frenzied race to the …

Emmanuel Ifeajuna is one of the most unfairly maligned Nigerians I have read about. Even among his fellow Igbo, uninformed ones swallow the propaganda that he was at the heart …

Without admitting it publicly, the greatest problem Northerners in the ruling People’s Democratic Party have in wrestling the 2011 presidential ticket of the party from President Goodluck Jonathan is the …

Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar who formally declared on August 15, 2010 for his 2011 presidential ambition on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party is facing uncertainties in the …

Common Sense should have told Ibrahim Babangida, head of the illegal Military junta that ruled Nigeria 1985-1993, that his current image-laundering exercise in the guise of Presidential Contest is no …

Many have suggested, including I, that perhaps our national deliverance will come from those residing in Diaspora, however, my recent experience does not bare this out…

The raging controversy over the erection and collection of tolls on the yet-to-be completed Lekki-Epe Expressway in Lagos State, Nigeria is a classic example of the consequences of dearth of …

Jega is a Jonathan proxy, a role that is quite an anathema to his old chivalrous spirit. His fire-spitting, radical and stubborn streaks have all mellowed. As Jonathan’s servant, he …

No matter what, I will like Sekibo to sheathe his sword. He should understand that our state is bigger than anybody or group. Amaechi should as well sheathe his sword, …

The way things are slowly but steadily building up, there is the possibility that Nigeria could, once again, be foisted with a leader in 2011 who never promised the country …

Cultural relativism, if we are not careful, is leaning more towards accepting the inequality of the races as a natural phenomenon, and therefore promotes racism…

The formal declaration on Wednesday last week by the governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji for the People’s Democratic Party, appears to have brought to an end the controversy concerning …

Nigerian consumers face paying more for bread, pasta, noodles and hundreds of processed foods after Russia banned the exportation of wheat…

The major reason political races in Nigeria are marked by high voltage violence is that occupants of political offices see themselves, and are seen, as lottery winners…