Nigeria Matters

If a trader has to bribe his way through clearing goods and is unsure of overhead costs from one shipment to another, then how on earth is he going to …

Nigeria is not poor because we lack natural resources or because nature was cruel to us. We are poor because we lack the correct attitude…

Apart from armed robbers – and perhaps kidnappers – it seems that the only other class of people feared so much by most Nigerians are the Police…

Once, shortly after our independence from Great Britain, the whole world believed, and were never in doubt that, Nigeria was going to be a great, if not the greatest African …

Democracy has been defined as the rule of the Majority. Well, in the Nigerian setting it is the rule of the crafty…

It is impossible to control government if you have no idea of what government is.  Today what people generally see as “Government” in Nigeria is not a government at all…

I have conducted numerous investigations to uncover failing government programs and how to fix the problems, including recovering…

One of the tell-tale signs of a government at odds with itself is the outbreak of paranoia within its ranks. Outbreaks of this nature often infect the apparatus and body …

Lugard’s appointment to the Governorship of Hong Kong kept him from Nigeria for six years. During that time, the conviction grew in England that it was necessary to amalgamate Southern …

There is something about the way Nigeria operates that often seems to defy proven theoretical assumptions and the working patterns of most of the rest of the world…

How does one begin to understand the psyche of beggars? Not your usual street beggars who due to no fault of theirs have to brave the elements in search of …

Those of us living today, not those living in the 1900s, have to decide which kind of union we wish to live in. We are responsible for the kind of …

At 48, uncertainty and corruption straddle Nigeria like a Frankenstein. The direction of government is unclear. Cases against public officials are lingering unendingly in various courts…

Nigeria provides a classic case of a developing country where despite the presence of a wide institutional infrastructure for producing trained manpower, generating new knowledge and providing science and technology …

Nigeria provides a classic case of a developing country where despite the presence of a wide institutional infrastructure for producing trained manpower, generating new knowledge and providing science and technology …

Driving on the entire stretch of the Lekki-Epe Expressway at night is a nightmare because the street lamps are not functional. And when it rains the drainages overflow, houses are …