Nigeria Matters

In as much as I agree with the position of the Police Service Commission (PSC) that Mallam Nuhu Ribadu’s conduct in recent times fell below expectation, the PSC was not …

In Mallam Ribadu’s calendric experience, December, rather than April, has to be the cruellest month…

With its countless individual fibers of bribery, favour and nepotism, crooked politicians hijacked the government, the Yar’Adua government was the PDP party, and neither could function without the other…

For an ill-informed first-time visitor to the ‘SaharaReporters’ website, the conclusion may be drawn to the effect that ‘SR’ has a standard editorial policy that wilfully and maliciously prescribes chiefly …

I’m convinced of the need to recognize that, politically speaking, we Nigerians have failed. Nigeria is just a caricature of a state, and the Nigerian nation a fictitious concept for …

I can confidently report that only Reuben Abati of The Guardian has the cajones to ask government officials for explanations. It is as if he is the only one not …

Only one reason may have informed Akunyili’s appointment. The Yar’Adua regime only wanted to exploit the enormous admiration and goodwill she enjoyed from Nigerians to shore up its badly battered …

Nigeria can be developed successfully and this must be underpinned by tolerance, social cohesion and acceptance of democratic values….

The Talakawa and their Almajiri can be transformed by the sudden dictates of history. Theoretically, they may not be revolutionary conscious but they are a potential revolutionary force…

This Christmas period or even at any other time, you don’t want to fly into the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport, Abuja at noon…

The likes of Gbadesire may extol Ondo State Governorship Tribunal ”for taking the pains to count and sort out 163 bags of ballot papers into wards and units without allowing …

President Umaru Yar’Adua’s efforts to combat corruption in this country have not been sufficient enough to justify receiving an award for anti-graft campaigning…

Truth, when trying to define it, extends from honesty, reality, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The term has no single definition …

Considering the depths to which the institution of government in Nigeria has sunk and the reputational damage suffered as a consequence of its descent, it does seem strange that our …

Last week’s call by President Umar Musa Yar’Adua on the National Assembly to expunge the irredeemably iniquitous Immunity Clause from the Nigerian Constitution, most surely, ranked, in my opinion, as …

Deceptive leaders like Mimiko will always believe that their private imperfections or inadequacies won’t have public consequences, but they always do…