Nigeria Matters

The prevailing cliché at the moment is the silly projection that Yar’ Adua will still rule this country for another 5 years. I have been tempted to see that dream …

I am writing this piece in respect to the acknowledgment by Aso Rock that our president is suffering from acute pericarditis. This has taken the Presidency almost two and half …

Nigeria’s crumbling state cannot be patched together overnight. For decades, Nigerian leaders neglected citizen participation in government and shunned economic liberalization. Instead, they nationalized the country’s oil industry to fund …

For several days now, stories have been circulating about your health. The rumor mill has gone into overdrive with all kinds of speculations, including the one that you are at …

By now we should be praying for this country and not threatening the captains. Dr. Jonathan is President Yar’Adua in accordance with the constitution. He is doing the job in …

With this write-up, I intend to demonstrate how the Nigeria Media Merit Awards and their organizers mistreated us.  I want to talk about it because I hope they would read …

Since flag independence in 1960, Nigerians have, for the most part, skirted the issue of nationhood: Is the amalgamation worth preserving? If so, under what economic and political arrangements; and …

Rather than see Okadigbo’s ugly sidekick as an acid humour or at worst, a benign blether from an ambitious political office jobber, Zik saw a chilling Kafkaesque aberration in the …

I had to pay money to be carried through a flood. The money we paid when summed could be enough to maintain or build a new flood drainage system…

The governorship election for Anambra State, Nigeria, is fast approaching and the politicians are gearing up for the grueling but festive campaign that will blight them or lead them to …

Nigeria was last week gripped with the confusing puzzle over the state of health of President Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua. The palpable confusion over the Mr. President’s health was widely …

There is no danger looming in Edo State as a result of the resolve of the Edo State Assembly to perform its assigned role. The real danger is having an …

Indeed, anyone who understands the Bayelsa political landscape understands that the opposition against the governor is rooted – not in sectional and low-politics – but in his mammoth incompetence…

In Nigeria, we have had quite a few high -profile cases of false death rumours: Nnamdi Azikiwe, the First President of Nigeria was declared dead by Nigerian newspapers years before …

It is no coincidence that courses on how to react in hostage-taking situations teach participants to show pictures of their spouses and children so that an emotional bond can be …

In the Nigerian netherworld of blinkered vision, all of us look but few of us see.  Our rulers, no, Northern rulers especially, have acclimated and conditioned our flaccid reflex to …