Nigeria Matters

In spite of the nation’s vast pool of human resources both at home and abroad, all we could come up with for President was a nice, smooth gentleman who, unfortunately, …

It has always been easy to use our limitations as an excuse for doing nothing productive with our lives as far as Nigeria is concerned…

It is really ironic that a government that has the vision of making Nigeria one of the 20 biggest economies in the world by the year 2020 has adamantly refused …

Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, the twosome who rule two of the formerly greatest nations on the face of this planet are two of a kind. Both are lawyers, both …

Let us call a spade a spade and hit the nail on the head: Islam or Sharia is not the cause of this militancy in the north, or for that …

No government past and present has surpassed the administration of LKJ in the provision of the mass housing that has accommodated Nigerians from different parts of the country. However, the …

In conspiracy rife Nigeria, all manner of rumours and apocryphal stories have alleged that Nzeogwu was murdered in a Machiavellian plot engineered by Ojukwu to eliminate him or perhaps that …

Madam Secretary, the people of the Niger Delta will be immensely grateful to you, President Obama, and the good people of the United States, if the U.S. government would intervene …

Somehow, in the wake of the high drama that followed last week’s arrest of the AC gubernatorial candidate for Osun State in the April 2007 election, Engr. Rauf Aregbesola, I …

For several years, Nigerian leaders could afford to just sit still and do nothing, because the auto-pilot directing the big, well-populated jet called Nigeria was yet to be totally out …

Since I came home, I have had the opportunity through my previous and current employers to travel around Nigeria; I have interacted with various Nigerians discussing Nigeria, their plans, dreams …

A corrupt government is one that extends unlawful jurisdiction over the people it is supposed to protect. A corrupt government is one that legislates beyond its rightful power by erecting …

If the Nigerian state will not protect her citizens from their own excesses, should it also then kill them to satisfy the notion of peace for elitist satisfaction? Who benefits …

For those who parroted the sincere commitment of Umaru Yar’Adua to the rule of law, it is becoming obvious that the man and his government are more interested in how …

Less than a year ago, I found myself writing about a crisis in Northern Nigeria. This time around its the Bauchi ‘Boko Haram’ religious crisis. While I am not trying …

If indeed, Nigeria, was at some point a house fit for the habitation of its people; is it then safe to conclude, that at its founding, it was the output …