Nigeria Matters

Ogun state is in a political arm lock. The vermin called Yewa is infecting the state and convulsing the hearts and minds of other gubernatorial candidates who see Yewa’s factor …

The occasion was Okotie’s presidential declaration for the 2011 election on the platform of the Fresh Democratic Party. If he goes ahead to run for the 2011 election, it will …

In colloquial Nigerian lexicons, ‘liver’ could be used to describe confidence, assurance, strength and boldness. Hence when someone says “you don’t have liver” he or she is subjecting your self …

The Nigerian Project, whose 50th anniversary would be elaborately celebrated soon, never ceases to puzzle. Unfortunately, for so long, Nigerians have not been able to come off this jigsaw, of …

That the level of insecurity in Igboland has reached unacceptable level is no longer news. In virtually all parts of the South East, daily reports of kidnapping, armed robberies and …

Can someone spell out disconnected? Here the nation is in the throes of a nationwide doctors’ strike and the best and most imaginative program our president can come up with …

Nigerians still live under wires of death 25 years after government pulled down thousands of homes under high tension lines…

Why would anyone live under wires of death?

It is hazardous to live under high tension transmission lines. Research has proved it accounts for reduced sperm count in the workers who regularly service the line, that fewer children …

Nigeria’s independence and democracy are testaments that testify to the victory of the tenacious grimly persistent and unfaltering founding fathers of our nation…

Ever since Jonathan became the substantive President on May 6, 2010, it will seem that his body language has been indicating that he may contest for the Presidency in 2011, …

When the US-based Fund for Peace in collaboration with Foreign Policy magazine released the 2009 Failed States Index, last year, the ranking of Nigeria as the 15th most failed nation …

With the 2011 election approaching, there is increasing worry that Nigerians are apprehensive about unresolved issues that are capable of undermining Nigeria’s democracy. These are corruption in the judiciary, prohibitive …

There are, it appears, two separate, dramatically different Nigerias existing side by side. Even though both Nigerias exist within the same space, they rarely interact. In fact, going by the …

Sieving through pages of history, it is quite easy to note that one of the banes of the Nigerian society is the peculiar inflexibility or outright lack of will to …

For too long, the Nigerian people have been held hostage, taken for a ride and forced by the few rich, powerful minority to pay a huge, back-breaking price to sustain …