Nigeria Matters

Majority of Nigerians who have already attained the age of fifty today, or forty and even thirty, should simply give up any hope of ever experiencing in their lifetime what …

Should Nigeria be electing its presidents based on zoning systems rather than competence? I think it is naïve to expect that at this still nascent stage of our democracy, our …

Men encouraged women, or at the very least, acquiesced to whatever indecent behavior we may associate with women. And in some cases, men forced women to engage in indecency. Men, we all …

In the belief that Nigerian citizenship is complete without the unnecessary discriminatory classifications of settler, indigene or state of origin, I am completely satisfied with saying I am a Nigerian…

The debt buyback gives Nigeria the deserved permanent sovereignty over its resources. Nigerians are now have more reasons not to tolerate excuses from the various tiers of government over the poor nature of …

It will always be safe to assume that whenever Nigeria or Africa pops up on any media screen, nine out of ten times it is for one bad news or …

Sir, do you really think that just sitting there probably in your plush pastorate, churning out one academic sermon or the other will make the change my generation expects of …

Nations are like children. They are born and they do die; they have a life cycle. Great empires have been built and greater ones have fallen…

Now that I have finally seen Agbani Darego’s controversial chest baring picture, I can see what it was that irked and riled many Nigerians. While globalization has caught up with …

There is something about small and narrow-minded people that vexes me. East or West, North or South, they all have three things in common: haughtiness, roguery, and the propensity to subjugate …

There has been criticism on the use of the funding and other monies that NGOs raise. Criticisms range from pointing out that only small percentages go to people in need, and some …

Some of us are keenly aware of the fact that some of those who sponsored and led the movement against term extension/elongation, were no democrats…

The Nigerian media knew that left alone, the legislators would cower to pressure and greed. It therefore put a camera and reporter on each and every one of the legislators. …

In a society where people’s sense of history is not so warped; where heroes are recognized and adulated, where the generality of the populace is not led by the nose …

We mostly allow the most mundane and the most primitive issues swallow and engage our sensibilities, I guess because we still are unsure what we want of ourselves and of …

Can we move on from this loose talk of winning team? Can we stop the loose talk of South-North presidency, East-West candidacy? Can we start seriously digesting and probing the …