Nigeria Matters

I read with concern your decision to contest the election of Governor Umar Ya’Ardua at the Presidential Election Tribunal as well as participate in peaceful anti-election Protest. Please think again..

It is bound to happen. Nigerians are experts in the art of blasphemy. At any given time, their behaviour and language are profane and sacrilegious…

For lawyers, the Supreme Court of Nigeria is what St. Peter’s Basilica is to devout Catholics! The Supreme Court is to lawyers what Mecca is to devout Muslims!

For lawyers, the Supreme Court of Nigeria is what St. Peter’s Basilica is to devout Catholics! The Supreme Court is to lawyers what Mecca is to devout Muslims!

A lot of us hardly took Atiku seriously even when he apologized to the nation for assisting President Obasanjo put us through some very harrowing reformatory experiences…

The fight has not started. When it does, we will all be aware. It will strike like thunder and bring down its actors. We will all be by the sides …

Before we move on, we need to deal with a small matter of the newspaper report that the National Assembly is contemplating steps to nullify the elections…

Those who were unsuccessful at the just concluded elections should embrace the rule of law, due process and democracy. The burden is on them…

I did not vote in the last Nigerian elections. I couldn’t have from my abode in Europe where we tried to mobilise the Nigerian diaspora for the Pat Utomi for …

Everything that has been said and written about Obasanjo can be summed up in one simple sentence: he was incompetent and vengeful; he was a failure, a disappointment, a waste and …

For too long, many in the international community have come to the conclusion that nothing good can come out of Nigeria. And at every given opportunity, we have proved them …

Are the Niger Delta Militants justified in taking up arms against the Federal Government?

Are the Niger Delta Militants justified in taking up arms against the Federal Government?

The 2007 elections were concluded last week. The exercise was deemed free and fair by both the EFCC and the International Monitoring Group, as well as by all Nigerians at …

A lot of the governorship aspirants fall within the forty or forty something range. I hope you realize what this means in terms of the kind of parentage and the kind of …

Everyone now knows that Iwu and his INEC were simply unprepared or unwilling to take Nigerians beyond the usual sad, discomforting stories that had attended past elections in the country…