Nigeria Matters

We know it as truth that in Africa, any time mothers decide to cry out on any issue, it is always difficult to deny them an ear…

 The trouble with Nigeria is simply arrogance of power based on complete lack of accountability from its leaders. All else – corruption, traffic jams, police brutality etc, etc are simply …

The Lagos-based popular newsmagazine ‘TheNews’, whose motto is “Defining the present, Shaping the future”, stirred a huge national controversy by its last week’s edition captioned: “The Scandal of Judges: How …

It is time for ordinary Nigerians, the perpetual victims of oppressive regimes, to put an end to their supplications and rise from their bended knees…

President Yar’Adua can take his chances and hope that Nigerians will accept another fixed result in 2011. Or he can lead from the front and push electoral reform as the …

Few weeks ago, it was announced that the administration will be spending over US$600m on power, does that not mean that that the US$16b spent by the last administration is …

I don’t think much of the intention of the Yar’Adua government to reform the electoral process. Although he had empanelled a body, with a sprinkle of some credible personages, he …

Quitting now would be more redemptive of Yar’Adua’s person than being remembered later as the groping undertaker of a richly endowed but seriously ill nation?

The sign of the times now demands that a growing collection of intelligent Nigerians are vocalising and constructing a historic trajectory with a self-ennobling mandate to offer holistic solutions to …

Some of our Nigerian politicians and leaders are so mad that that they keep their loot in their houses; some of them even bury cash in graves; while some of …

It can not be seen as a ‘crime’ or the extra ordinary when members of a State House of Assembly seek for accountability and good governance in conformity with their …

The upcoming conference is nothing but a charade, another in a long line of government’s duplicitous acts. Solve the Niger Delta problems for the sake of justice, peace, and stability…

Corruption is Nigeria’s number one problem and has continued to endanger the chances of any meaningful national development and unity. But why have the different anti corruption programs failed to …

Fellow ‘Wazobians’ at home and abroad, my son Gbenga was instigated by my many enemies to go public with an ‘incest’ allegation against me, his distinguished father. Well, he seems …

Why is Nigeria in spite of its endowment in human and material resources continuing to wallow in political turmoil and economic depression?

I entered a filling station to buy fuel and the crowd I saw there almost scared me. It was when I looked closely that I saw containers of different sizes …