Nigeria Matters

For many Lagosians, riding daily on okada is an unavoidable part of their daily routine as only the ‘kings of the road’ have the daredevil DNA to waltz, dash, slide, …

In eleven days – February 6 – Anambra voters will (attempt to) go to the polls to elect the state’s governor for the next four years. They have a full …

In Nigeria, one with the benefit of hindsight may realize the missed opportunities in 1960, 1979, 1993 and 1999 to do the proper thing and bequeath to our country a …

When America and the West fail to get their acts together, it is a systemic failure. When a man reports his son to the US security to be on the …

Sending young people barely old enough to tie their shoe laces away from home to an alien culture and strange environment where they are opened to all forms of associations …

The presence of Cuba and Nigeria on the List demonstrates that the U.S. has used the Mutallab affair as a pretext to get even with countries that it has long …

The docility of Nigerians to the affairs of this country and the President continued absence explains why information managers in Abuja can continue to spin webs upon webs of lies …

Badly planned, poorly conducted military operations are also responsible for the rise of religious crisis in the middle belt, where the loss of lives and property and displacement of thousands …

If anyone is still in any doubt about the lopsidedness of Nigeria, look no further than Yar’Adua’s AWOL and all its ramifications, the latest of which is his handlers’ decision …

Abdulmuttalab is now more popular than Barack Obama and Michael Jackson put together.  He has completely changed how the world and our international friends view Nigeria and Nigerians. He has …

Nigerians abroad are experiencing injurious threats against what they know nothing about. There’s no end to the bad news on the overseas workers’ front. Labour officials have said more Nigerians …

Since 1999 when Nigeria supposedly returned to democratic rule, the representatives at all levels – federal, state, and local governments, have been more of rubber stamps in the hands of …

By all definitions and with whatever measuring standard, Nigeria is not a terrorist nation. Anybody or any government that think otherwise is only exhibiting a fallacy of judgment…

Despite the harsh inclement and freezing weather conditions, the Nigerians, from several organisations marched through Central London in an impressive turnout that began as early as 10.30 am, in front …

It’s nonsense that the Obama regime is trying to turn the clock back to the Cold War era. America’s move is seen as an intention to bully Nigeria’s diplomatic mission …

What did Nigeria do to find itself mentioned in the same sentence as “terrorism”, and be blacklisted in the same illustrious company as Somalia, Afghanistan and Libya?