Nigeria Matters

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…

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…

The experts believe that because many Nigerians cry foul at losing the elections in favour of the dominant political party, then, they really must be poor losers…

Do you know that those meyguards at Trafalgar & Locke House will not allow me to see Mr. Abati? On Monday they told me I didn’t have an appointment to …

The Nigerian people woke up on the 14th of April and met a different country and a determined leader who wanted to win elections by sheer coercion…

On Sunday 15th April, 2007, Nigerians woke up to witness the worst shock of their lives. Professor Morris Iwu’s abracadabra had defied their wildest imagination…

I shake my head and bemoan an opportunity lost. If anyone tells you an election took place on Saturday, call such an individual a bold faced liar…

If we were really interested in building a strong, prosperous and united nation, we should be interested in choosing the best among us, irrespective of his tribe or origin…