Nigeria Matters

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 …

With the mass, historic and hysterical surrender of the Boy’s Scout fighters along the Niger Creeks, it becomes obvious that the causal nexus of militancy has been defeated. What a …

The majority of Ndigbo, today, are determined to take their destiny in their own hands, and to retake their rightful place in the country their fathers and grand fathers once …

Whoever they may be, Political Deities seem to me to be the greatest threats to the survival of democracy in Nigeria…

I have several choices: I could be a drug-smuggler; I could be a political thug or I could be a politician or finally, I could choose to be a kidnapper. …

Before I get to the subject of this letter, let me start by saying a very big thank you to you for the revolutionary decision you have taken to transfer …

Soludo’s nearly perfect record during his tenure may be scratched by the new revelation and investigation by the new CBN chieftain, Mr. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, that exposed the corruption in …

People go to war for different reasons, chief amongst them to address injustices. But whatever the objective is, winning or losing a war could spell misfortune for the social, political …

When Imo and Abia States were mischievously left out of the benefits that naturally should come to them as a result of their oil-producing status, it took me quite some …

It is very much in the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians that speeding is controlled on all roads. The whole idea will be to reduce to the lowest minimum, the …

With the current spate of things in Nigeria, our trademark cultures are fast going the way of dinosaurs as extinction is imminent, and imbibing foreign culture is fast becoming the …

Today, governorship candidates appear to be chosen based on three major yardsticks: incumbency, credibility and past records. These three yardsticks can easily be spotted among the three major political parties…