Nigeria Matters

What could possibly explain the foolhardiness of any alien or foreigner becoming a Nigerian citizen? How could these ordinarily decent, hardworking and self-respecting immigrants in Nigeria want to jettison their …

Emeka dead? Emeka? What happened? Why? How? God, Why? These were the initial questions that made my heard swim around and around… This could not be. This na the guy …

Nigerians are a special breed of people. They have the incomprehensible and bizarre capacity of being happy in the worst of circumstances. A Nigerian could even applaud a man contemptuous …

What was Asari Dokubo’s offense? That he spoke against the maltreatment and the exploitation of the Ijaw ethnic group? That he spoke against the excesses and abuses being perpetrated by …

HIV/AIDS is gaining ground intensely in Nigeria today because children do not teach their parents, peers, relatives…

I believe that the presence or absence of conflict is a vital element in the determination of the relevance or irrelevance of a work of art…

Regardless of Obasanjo’s achievements or failures, many people saw the third-term bid as an attempt to breach the contract between the elected and electors, a violation of the rules of …

Despite the army of million dollar salary earning crises managers and PR executives in the employment of the oil companies operating in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria, It …

My generation has a significant role to play in the new political dispensation. This will require a change of behavior and a lot of trial and error as well as …

Who killed Sunday Ugwu, Momoh Lawal, Odunayo Olagbaju and Janet Oladapo? Who killed them? Who killed Ahmed Pategi and his police orderly? And who killed Victor Nwankwo, the younger brother …

There are so many things you should have in mind before you go for a major or minor intestinal surgical operation in a private clinic in my country…

All over Nigeria, the beans are being spilled on the sordid past and present of Nigeria’s politicians and government officials, perhaps opening their can of worms has become a national …

Can we insult Olusegun Obasanjo without denigrating the Presidency? Can Olusegun Obasanjo fight Atiku Abubakar without dragging the exalted office of the Vice President into the mud?

Those who use age to rationalise Nigeria’s insalubrious political conduct forget that in the same western hemisphere with America is a country called Haiti, the world’s first black-led republic which …

As the days turn into weeks and as the weeks turn into months, inexorably dragging us all to the semi-evil days of Nigeria’s election in April, it is not a …

Indeed, this house has collapsed. I do not envy the person who will take over from Obasanjo. The person will inherit an angry, hungry, impoverished and frustrated populace, wilfully plunged into …