Nigeria Matters

It’s safe to say that Nigerians have never had it quite as bleak as under the Yar’Adua dispensation. Until now, we’ve had a succession of rotten rulers, but never one …

Nigerians seem to have a two-tier belief system. On the one hand they believe in God/Allah, and attend church/mosque. Yet they still believe in the power of non-Biblical or Koranic …

Change will come when we know true democracy and keep ourselves informed. We have to encourage our families, friends and neighbours to populate the educated camp till the ignorant camp …

Change will come when we know true democracy and keep ourselves informed. We have to encourage our families, friends and neighbours to populate the educated camp till the ignorant camp …

The image of a nation might as well be the destiny of a nation. Nigeria’s disfigured image in the global village has become an insignia of dishonesty, dishonor and disrespect; …

Everything is grounded in the country for now…the usual rituals of fuel scarcity at Xmas…Umoru is lying down half dead in a Saudi hospital and the country too lying comatose …

If there is a bit of the hypocrite in all of us, then our hypocrisy is often at its highest when discussing public officials, especially politicians, in the context of …

Mr. President, though we acknowledge our frailties as mortals, we have never ceased to ask why you allowed yourself to be goaded into taking this job in the first place. …

The problem with religions inside Nigeria is that they are either too narrow and exclusionary or too vague and ambiguous. Some do not have boundaries and anything goes. Others are …

It must be said that the complicity and guilt of the northern establishment finds comfort in the attitude of the Nigerian media and intelligentsia. The imperative of naming names and …

When I penned A vote of no confidence in the NMMA a fortnight ago, I didn’t think anybody’s ox was going to be gored. I didn’t expect too that the …

The year 2009 is about to come to a permanent close, never to be seen again. Human beings have been in this world since only God knows. Nigeria has been …

Our country still suffers a lot of poverty in the midst of plenty and it seems to me that only something as radical as the total annihilation of corrupt people …

Crimes and criminals demean us all, with their negative impacts and in their equally negative consequences or  outcomes. Crimes and criminals are like religious extremism-militancy, they are like virtues and …

Former Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, has reportedly vowed to return Peter Obi to the Government House, Awka, after the February 2010 polls…

“The Colloquium on Africa” focusing on the forthcoming elections in Nigeria summoned by the Honorable Chinua Achebe should contribute to solving the problem of voting machination in the country…