Nigeria Matters

While democracy is reputed worldwide as a collaborative, all-encompassing participatory style of government, the 21st century has been characterized with modification and redefinition of democracy…

Given the circumstance that impelled Goodluck Jonathan to the role of acting president, it is imperative that he makes an impression on the world stage with his understanding of the …

For a nation like Nigeria to survive, and thrive, national security is very important, because national security is essentially about national sovereignty; territorial, political, economic and cultural and, above all, …

I have always viewed Nigeria as a mere geographical expression, a North and South joined together by an umbilical cord called United Kingdom, an umbilical cord which has since cut …

As flawed as successive Nigerian Constitutions have been, it has always, in theory at least, provided for an independent judiciary. In practice, however, this has not always been the case…

Goodluck Jonathan gets his first strutting experience as “president” next week when he visits the U.S. at the invitation of President Barack Obama. How Jonathan handles himself, and the image …

Like most of our uncaring, rapacious, selfish, heartless, thoughtless, insensitive, inconsiderate, callous, conscienceless politicians, IBB is under the delusion that he is still the Messiah. He still wants to make …

I am very sorry, but I have not seen any evidence that “Enough is indeed Enough” among supposedly enlightened Nigerians. What I see is an attempt to apply a kind …

Is Al-Mustapha a security risk? Did he endanger the wellbeing of the nation? Is he a murderer? Did he conspire with others to kill the innocent? Must it take another …

Nigeria’s dreaded status in internet scam is in no way as a result of the skills of the scammers, but the inability of the Nigerian government to checkmate it, even …

Obviously worried by the disturbing state of insecurity in Igboland in recent times, governors of the South East zone hurried, or as some accounts said, were “summoned”, to Aso Rock, …

Would it not have been in gross national interest for the President to glide down the airport run-way, waving his hands gleefully at a crowd of patently patient Nigerians he …

In Nigeria at the moment, the sensation you get is that of great displeasure of the populace towards their ‘leaders’. This disapproval has no ethnic, religious or cultural affiliation as …

The time has never been riper for the emergence of a formidable opposition force to dislodge the People’s Democratic Party from power. Yet, there are disturbing signs, once again, that …

Balewa was no firebrand political radical. He may have remained a teacher for the rest of his life had southern politicians such as the flamboyant intellectual Nnamdi Azikiwe not pushed …

Which way Nigeria has to go will depend essentially on the choice Nigerians make of the political situation, their policies and their leaders…