Nigeria Matters

Suddenly, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is finding his voice. Suddenly, he seems to be in a big hurry to discard the tag of see-nothing-bad, do-nothing president…

Looking at the situation from a remedial perspective, responsibility may have been the bane for the post war Igbo leadership failures…

In Nigeria, God blessed us with huge mineral deposits and arable land that multiplies fruits and foodstuffs in harvest time. Yet, hunger stalks the land with millions of our people going to …

Nigeria in the immediate past decades has contended with various Adedibu-manifestations. Thuggish-Adedibu, anarchic-Adedibu, political buffoonery-Adedibu, and such others have been the presentations of the persona…

During the period of aviation industry development in Nigeria, politicians who did not understand the importance of aviation in a nation’s growth strangulated and rendered capable aviation professionals useless…

God, some maintain, made it possible for Yar’Adua and Jonathan Goodluck to be where they are today. I personally do not think that God has anything to do with the …

I have often wondered why Nigerian newspapers have not caught up with their counterparts in the west, in serving their readers appetising and imaginative headlines…

Since the Supreme Court rulings in the Amaechi case, the camp of the opinionated has since joined hands with the camp of the lawless to discredit the court…

The three deepest gulfs that divide the Nigerian society are ethnicity, sectional interest and the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor. Of the three gulfs, ethnicity is the …

A judicial volcano erupted last Thursday in the Supreme Court in Abuja with Celestine Omehia, the impostor Governor of Rivers State and his gang-terrorised government swept aside

A grasshopper that is roasting over fire and claiming to be emitting fat will soon realize that a snail that swallows another will have two legs…

Ambassador Dozie Nwanna, Nigeria’s acting High Commissioner to the United Kingdom has debunked claims that the immediate past president of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo was a guest of the London Metropolitan …

Mr. Nuhu Ribadu is nothing but a raconteur, a noise maker, a showman and a showboat and a loudspeaker. He plays to the gallery. He enjoys traversing the world mostly …

For some time now, I have tried to contain my angst against the activities and rudderless, missionless and visionless political drift of the former Vice president, Alex Ekwueme…

Dr. Safana had been trained in some of the best universities of the world. A first class brain, a medical doctor, one with the finest fingers who became the fan, the …

The problem is not so much that the government is winning the war against corruption, but the impression that the war itself is not being fought with sincerity of purpose, …