Nigeria Matters

The Nigerian Constitution is a 419 constitution. Its Political System is a mockery of democracy. For the sake of justice, peace, unity and progress, it must be dismantled immediately!

Why in spite of the billions of dollars that have been allocated and collected by various state governors and their governments is there very little or no measurable progress in …

Unless Mr. Uche Nworah knows something most of us don’t know, his current treatise on the fallout between Dr. Okey Ndibe and the Guardian Newspaper is too early a judgment …

. Atiku continues to make threats, ominous and desperate pronouncements about his political ambitions. Why would Atiku proclaim his disqualification as spelling anarchy for Nigeria?

As I see the reports of the numerous rallies the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is addressing in several parts of the country, I am always forced to ask: what really …

The Obasanjo government may have laid the foundation for a new Nigeria, rescuing it from the claws of military oligarchs in 1999, but now is the time to move on…

A speech by a leader or one who aspires to lead should galvanize: it should inspire confidence in all who listen to it and chart a course of hope in …

I refuse to believe that the Guardian has not ‘killed’ stories in the past which may run contrary to the business and personal interests of both the owners and the …

If there is any group of people that have been misrepresented either by their kind or those who don’t know or have not met them, it will be the Nigerian …

Where does the Niger-Delta arms come from? Who gives these unemployed, unhappy Urhobo youths AK-47s and mortars to eliminate his in-laws the Itshekiris? Where does the intelligent Itshekiri group get …

A segment of the Nigerian Press hit a new low in the past couple of days, as they engaged in poor taste journalism and rumor mongering!

Some five thousand people in any given Nigerian city suffer from catarrh on any given day, yet, they don’t go to Germany for treatment…

Why would any presidential aspirant pray for Yar’Adua’s death at this period? I may be naïve, not being a politician, but I refuse to buy the argument that Yar’Adua is …

Where is Nigeria’s national development plan today as it prepares for the next All-African games in Algiers, the Afro-Asia Games in China, and the Olympic Games in China?

Without any exaggeration, the forthcoming election will most likely be a turning point in the history of Nigeria in the quest to build a democratic and prosperous nation…

When I write, like many patriotic Nigerians, it is to beam some light on some of the darkness in our polity, hoping that those in whom the power to effect …