Nigeria Matters

Being the chosen one in a nation like Nigeria can be fraught with difficulty. The presidency, which to so many is the Holy Grail of Nigerian politics, can quite easily …

The foreigners might mourn with us, their eyes are however not blind from the ubiquitous I-don’t-care attitudes, neither are their nostrils blocked such that they can’t sense the cosmopolitan opportunistic …

As Nigeria’s foremost nationalist and first post independence Head of State, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe was to Nigeria, what George Washington is to America, Nkrumah is to Ghana, Nasser is to …

For years since independence, the North has always insisted on controlling the police, the army, the petroleum that they do not produce and even produce the president. Where this whole …

Umaru Yar’Adua’s death last week at the age of 58 was not enough, in the end, to settle the man’s debt to history. One was not surprised that the man’s …

As flags flutter at half mast following the death of Nigeria’s former president, late Musa Yar’adua, the events leading to his demise speak volumes in terms of impact and lessons …

Under different circumstances, could there have been a few traits in this woman that might have been a virtue? I leave you to conclude. Did she want her husband to …

With the death of President Musa Yar’Adua and the bitter altercations that attended his last days way behind us, there is every need to remind President Goodluck Jonathan that Nigeria …

After the Acting President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s successful visit to the United States of America, where he participated in the global summit on nuclear security, Nigerian diplomacy seems to have …

It obviously calls for serious concern that  two states could be so easily over-run by hoodlums without a whimper of resistance from the police…

The country lacks the resources that make a democratic nation thrive. When 60 per cent of the people live below poverty line, the ruling party’s main job is to keep …

In northern Nigeria, the strong arms of Sharia law, cosmopolitan illiteracy and ubiquitous male dominance seem to be the undoing of most female emancipation advocacies. It is therefore thought provoking …

The Federal Government of Nigeria has declared a seven day national mourning in honor of Mr. Yar’Adua…

Again, the Nigerian judiciary was in its full nudity in the trial of the petition by Dr. Kayode Fayemi, the AC governorship candidate in Ekiti State against the declaration of …

It is quite unfortunate that the ACF elders could be pushing for a Northern VP when they were supposed to use their experience to unite Nigeria…

It is understood all over the world that one of the features of democracy is freedom of speech and allied freedoms. However, certain freedoms become an aberration given conditions and …