Nigeria Matters

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…

As I write this, just a few days to Christmas, Nigeria, the largest black nation on earth and the assumed African Giant is locked down by a conclave of crises, …

President Yar’Adua’s absence from work, and particularly, his departure without following laid down constitutional procedure, has thrown up questions. What is the best way to resolve President Yar’Adua’s  non-compliance with …

What needs to be done is not the type of image laundering that is being wrongly spearheaded by our Minister of Information Professor Dora Akunyuli. The present rebranding campaign has …

I know that most of you, except those with vested interests, worry less on the state of health of President Umar Musa Yar’adua, whose ailing conditions had put him in …

In our very own Nigeria, in Asaba, at the recently established Federal High Court, it is a very different kind of season.  For Mr James Ibori and his fellow travellers, …

It must have been around 1984 that Wole Soyinka declared his generation, ‘the wasted generation’. The 1986 Nobel Laureate in literature had accused anyone who was 40 years old or …

Those who seem bent and intent on denying Fashola re-nomination also seem determined to drive a wedge between him and Alhaji Bola Tinubu in order to rupture their effective and …

Nigeria’s social dilemma is money. We ruminate endlessly on how, when and where to get it. We place far more value on material success than cultural and human values…

Inconsistency will be a recipe for disaster. Your adversaries are alarmists and carpetbaggers. They couldn’t do it when you were up. Now they want to remove the drip and turn …

Politics apart, President Shehu Yar’Adua deserves our empathy and prayer at this crucial time of his life in the spirit of brotherhood and nation building…

Nigeria is once again at one of those junctures where tripping over the precipice cannot be ruled out. At issue is the President’s serious illness, and increasing calls by some …

A sneak preview of the fiery war that awaits us in the aftermath of Yar’Adua’s complicated health state is the internecine power struggle that has started and which threatens to …