Nigeria Matters

Is MEND benefiting any public good? Has MEND benefited any Niger Deltan, except MEND itself? Is the Nigerian government wrong in its all out war against MEND?

In Nigeria, as in most other nations, the practice of our politics and its governance – since before, and ever since independence, and right through to the present time – …

I would like to say that like many other Nigerians, I strongly condemn this tactics of the Nigerian Government. Niger Deltans, militant or civilians, at the last count, are Nigerian …

The Minister of Information and National Orientation Professor Dora Akunyuli would by now have painfully realized that the re-branding Nigeria project which she kicked off with an impressive ceremony in …

The current condition of statehood in Nigeria calls to mind two seemingly far-flung and historically divergent analogies, one rooted in Roman Catholic rites of passage for the dying and the …

Mr President, my thoughts have recently reverted back to the question of your legacy as President and the fact that there are no invisible ones.  I am inclined to ask …

Perhaps hurt that your offer of amnesty to the Niger Delta militants was rejected, and perhaps no longer willing to accept the general atmosphere of malaise in the Niger Delta …

I don’t like praising any administration, past or present, for any positive policy. This is because governance is all about improving people’s welfare. Therefore, when governments do their work I …

One example of sheer lack of accountability can be seen in recent allocation of funds by this government. Regarding the funds released by the government to the Niger Delta states …

One example of sheer lack of accountability can be seen in recent allocation of funds by this government. Regarding the funds released by the government to the Niger Delta states …

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars …

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars …

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars …

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars …

African peoples have long relied on oral accounts to learn about their past.  But the down side of this tradition remains its vulnerability to embellishment. The absence of written records, …

Political party or leadership without a guiding philosophy or ideology is like a pilot without navigator. Any flight attempt will inevitably result in calamity and peril…