Nigeria Matters

A couple of weeks back, some men of the Nigerian Police showed me the other face of the institution. A pleasant face that has changed my perception of them. In …

Nigerians should ask the governor of Lagos state several questions to determine the reasons for his decision to throw Molotov cocktails and live grenades into our already volatile state of …

Less than a month ago we were talking about the Niger Delta crisis, the militants, and the federal government amnesty. Then the Boko Haram crisis erupted. As the Boko Haram …

Time was when it was just foreigners who enjoyed hostage threats in the country. The threat had later flowed down to the relations of political office holders and the rich. …

Nigeria is a country littered with illegal buildings and construction eyesores. Experts blame the use of low-quality cement and inadequate supporting iron rods. Tens of thousands of office complexes, schools …

Far be it from me to impute or imply or cause others to infer from the title of this piece that the president of our federal republic is anything but …

Whether Nigerians and the global community like it or not, the time for mass hanging has come. The time is ripe for the systemic elimination of twenty-five percent of Nigeria’s …

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 …