Nigeria Matters

Being a Nigerian is something that we need to value more than ever. But we have always placed humankind above homeland. We are internationalists, first and foremost, without ceasing to …

It is expediently imperative that every well intentioned Nigerian should cry to God to deliver us from the impending danger of Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida’s second coming…

Nigeria is about the only country I know in the world where things are done illegally and a majority of the citizens keep mum. Almost everyone accept illegality as a …

For developed nations, democracy means majority, whether there is opposition or no opposition. But Nigeria’s case insinuating Babangida’s 2011 presidency aspiration can be all about monerity…

At this ‘critical’ period of our life as a nation, those whom chance thrust on us as leaders should have no need of the former templates of religion or our …

While as Vice President, Atiku believed that he had no job other than what was assigned to him by the President Obasanjo to do then, but he was seen to …

I was at a loss when some professional critics decided to employ negativism in destroying Dr Olayiwola Olaleye’s credibility, simply because the article he penned never met with their amorphous …

Since Yar’Adua took ill, a lot of developments, positive and negative have been elbowing the Nigerian political quadrangle…

The “Gap Toothed” General finally made public what has been a staple of Abuja political conversation in the past few months. No surprise there. It was only a matter of …

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 …