Nigeria Matters

Ok, I’m still trying to rationalize this. The commander in Chief just got usurped by the Chief of Army Staff?  This is beyond Ordinary. I thought the Chief of Army …

From the obscure position of a powerless Deputy Governor in the oil-rich Bayelsa State where he was at the shadow and mercy of the crumbs falling from the table of …

Now that the president has returned, we welcome him back and wish him quick recovery. But then we need to see him and get him to talk to the nation …

Everything happening in Nigeria today points to the fact that the end game is getting to its critical stage. This should be expected from a country with such convoluted and …

President Umaru Musa YarAdua’s departure from Saudi Arabia and arrival in Nigeria is very dramatic and, quite possibly pregnant and loaded with intrigues and meanings…

From all indications, a few unscrupulous individuals with no interest of the country at heart have continued to hoodwink and manipulate the rest of us. We all are aware that …

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 …

Dim Ojukwu has always been a risk taker. It is a defining feature of his personality. In matter of fact, it is to risk taking that he owes his international …

 Let us presume that our absentee President is not going to be fit for purpose after this Saudi trip and I don’t think he will because the handwriting is on …

By swearing in Jonathan Goodluck as the acting president, the law makers have put a stop – at least temporarily – to the public ridicule and embarrassment that Yar’Adua has …

In a particular reported incident, a young Nigerian student heading to school in Ukraine was repeatedly questioned till he broke down in tears. Why? His first two names were Umar …

I do not envy Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. Not many rational and reasonable people would. It is hard to imagine the kind of nervous tension he must have, and is going …

The history of Nigeria, since 1914 until the present time, has been a history of failures, conflicts, failed promises, shattered hope, endless pain and agony…

I say so without blinking that our Constitution is useless because it was foisted on us by a power mad military despot, and determining our fate on that paper alone …

A unique set of circumstances were presented in Nigeria very recently. General Theo Danjuma of Nigeria announced a hundred million Dollars surplus with which he intended to do public good…

The February 6, 2010 gubernatorial election in Anambra state has come and gone. As victory sinks in, it is not clear whether others that had earlier accepted the announced outcome …