Nigeria Matters

While I was reflecting on the current challenges facing the nation in the area of insecurity, I got a phone call from a younger friend who wanted my opinion on …

Dateline Delta State: Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and supervising Minister of the Niger Delta Development Commission stormed the state in an unscheduled visit. The man popularly …

Nigeria’s march to becoming a country can be attributed to British colonial constitutional engineering, which sought to establish it’s own extractive structures and institutions to drive it’s economic interests. Modern …

That Nigeria is adrift today is no news, what with the near total breakdown of law and order. What is news though is that while there appears to be a …

Nigeria is a funny and strange country to live in and the lawmakers are even stranger making you ask whether they’ve lost touch with reality altogether: the Senate is trying …

The discordant tunes in the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that once held sway for 16 years in the reins of power in Nigeria has taken a new turn as …

It is disheartening that our lamentation on the security situation in the country is unending. There is hardly a week that one finds an issue that outweighs insecurity in the …

Unsurprisingly, the news of the purported death of fiery arrowhead of dreaded Islamist Insurgent group, Boko Haram, Abubakar Shekau, exploded on the internet and traditional information channels a few days …

There are more male prostitutes in the crooked field of partisan politics than there are female harlots in the brothels across Nigeria. The prostitute politicians come armed with the bewildering …

“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one”_ George Washington When the news of the purported suspension of a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), in …

The conversation elicited since the Asaba declaration of the Southern Governors of Nigeria is still ongoing but not with the unexpected clap back from different groups and individuals. Since the …

How can some concerned Nigerians be talking of having an absentee president when all that is needed is a standby president? It is only in Nigeria that people are wise …

He is a big issue, love him or hate him. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi has become a household name across every region. Rising from a child prodigy to the man with …

It takes no time at all for Fake News and Hate Speech to go viral across the whole wide world. The nameless and faceless voice trended all over the social …

It’s crucial in this charged season that a good number of clowns in the name of politicians are toying with democracy in Nigeria that one remembers the departed one: Chima …

The world was suddenly jolted by the spread of an unknown virus later coded the Corona virus. It was a moment of despair, confusion and a total shift in lifestyle. …