Nigeria Matters

All that any Igbo charlatan needs to hoodwink many a Nigerian leader is to claim that he has the beans to bring the Igbo people to the centre after the …

Adegboyega Oyetola and Olugbenga Babatunji are two leaders in their own right. While Oyetola is the Governor of Osun State, Babatunji is the Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of Osun. …

A couple of weeks ago, the Nigerian Military High Command announced that several commanders and members of Islamist insurgent group, Boko Haram and one of its rival  factions, the Islamic …

Unhappy is the country whose leader is not properly educated. Going to school is a matter of urgent national importance unless Nigerians want to submit to the thesis of Boko …

The battle lines were drawn, the drums of war drowning the initial applause that greeted the order for the financial probe of the corruption riddled interventionist agency – the Niger …

Years of neglect of the lighting-up project of airport road, a long stretch of road with large traction of socioeconomic activities at the heart of Benin City of Edo State, …

It was a roll call of Nigeria’s most powerful political elites during the wedding of Yusuf Buhari, son of Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, to the daughter of the Emir of …

Let me start by making a categorical statement: this intervention is not aimed at apportioning blame to any of the factions, so to say, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) currently at daggers drawn in Osun State. On the contrary, it …

He has been very much around in the political terrain. His political savvy and ability to meander through the uncharted waters of the stillborn democracy had once earned him the …

The new breed of femmes fatales is young, pretty – and they can kill you! The on-going case of Chidinma Ojukwu has gripped – and shocked – the nation and …

The hot button in Nigeria today is to crow of secession. It does not matter if the jumped-up secessionist leader can in truth tell the boundaries of his dream nation. …

The RESTRUCTURING debate is a smoldering topic that has continued to gain ascendancy in public discourses as the search for a magic formula to cure Nigeria’s several incapacitating ailments continues to …

By Robert Nwadinobi President Muhammadu Buhari is a man of his word. When he pledged some two years ago that a free and fair election in Nigeria would be one …

Oracles, who gave wings to their tongues. Scribes, whose minds ran gauntlet of taunts. Stenographers of time and secretaries to the oppressed, who cried out like voices in the wilderness. …

There’s this book by Peter Enahoro entitled You Gotta Laugh to Cry. The so-called democratic elections in Nigeria almost always end up making all Nigerians laugh to cry. Let’s start …

Nigerians are a very funny lot. Not only have we crowned ourselves a republic of clowns; we are an outrageous people, who are in love with outrage. We miss no …