Nigeria Matters

In a report credited to Robert I. Rotberg, the founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, and John …

I will start with my conclusion. This phase will pass – very soon. It shall be well with the people of Nigeria. Nigeria will survive. I won’t add a caveat …

The agitation for a separate country out of what is known as Nigeria, by two major ethnic groups – the Igbos and the Yourubas, both of Southern Nigeria rooting for …

Only simpletons are deceived, by the obsequious silence of a canary. Or the banal tranquility of a thorn bird. When those condemned to sing, suddenly pretend to silence, then nature …

Prelude to the conclusion of its tenure, the 8th Senate assented to a bill earlier passed by the House of Representatives, which confirmed June 12 as Nigeria’s official Democracy Day, 26 years after the acclaimed …

While I was reflecting on the current challenges facing the nation in the area of insecurity, I got a phone call from a younger friend who wanted my opinion on …

Dateline Delta State: Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and supervising Minister of the Niger Delta Development Commission stormed the state in an unscheduled visit. The man popularly …

Nigeria’s march to becoming a country can be attributed to British colonial constitutional engineering, which sought to establish it’s own extractive structures and institutions to drive it’s economic interests. Modern …

That Nigeria is adrift today is no news, what with the near total breakdown of law and order. What is news though is that while there appears to be a …

Nigeria is a funny and strange country to live in and the lawmakers are even stranger making you ask whether they’ve lost touch with reality altogether: the Senate is trying …

The discordant tunes in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that once held sway for 16 years in the reins of power in Nigeria has taken a new turn as …

It is disheartening that our lamentation on the security situation in the country is unending. There is hardly a week that one finds an issue that outweighs insecurity in the …

Unsurprisingly, the news of the purported death of fiery arrowhead of dreaded Islamist Insurgent group, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, exploded on the internet and traditional information channels a few days …

There are more male prostitutes in the crooked field of partisan politics than there are female harlots in the brothels across Nigeria. The prostitute politicians come armed with the bewildering …

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one”_ George Washington When the news of the purported suspension of a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in …

The conversation elicited since the Asaba declaration of the Southern Governors of Nigeria is still ongoing but not with the unexpected clap back from different groups and individuals. Since the …