Nigeria Matters

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 …

I belong to a generation of Nigerians I would like to refer to as ‘transitional’. We were birthed at the threshold of a country’s descent from the sturdy, high grounds …

It should be an unpatriotic act to have your children studying abroad while you’re holding a government position. Nigerians should take this matter to the National Assembly and all states …

Fashola’s leadership example has proved Tinubu’s critics and detractors wrong. What we see in Lagos State today is a beehive of democratic norms, and I stand to say that Asiwaju …

Policies such as quota system and federal character were politically imbued to accommodate mediocrity and tolerate indolence. Politicians sort political office to benefit themselves as opposed to improve the lots …

I recently watched an American football game in a large stadium filled with sport loving Americans. The excitement and passion I saw on everyone’s face strained me in trying to …

There are punishments better than death. Death takes only a few seconds to initiate. Long prison sentences, naming and shaming and hard labour in prison will always be effective deterrent …