Nigeria Matters

Since 1993 what has IBB done to improve himself? Did he go back to school? Has he now got any training in Economics, a Law degree, MBA in Management or …

All of what is happening in the Peoples’ Democratic Party is parallel to the mischief characterised by the British Conservative Party in the United Kingdom immediately after the departure of …

Almost every Nigerian of voting age is aware of the atrocities committed by the various military leaders who had unleashed their autocratic reigns on our nation in the past. IBB …

Modern ifa like the rest of us is not stupid. It instinctively knows who is qualified to be King at a time the town's people no longer financially support their …

I must confess that I do not always agree with Achebe, especially on his views about Christianity, which like many intellectuals, he sees from a negative and largely misunderstood perspective…

I do not discuss my family because along the years, I have had to determine who is in and who stays out. I come from one of those families with …

A wife gets home to her home in Iyana Ipaja, and makes to prepare a special meal of white rice with fresh fish stew for her husband. It is their …

Nigerians have not yet mentally embraced the notion of Representative Democracy. The Politicians are still revered as some ‘big men’ who do the people a favor when they are around…

Government is not solely about controlling a bloated and corrupt bureaucracy and dishing out favor to cronies in the ‘come chop’ tradition. Government is also about issues, vision and principles…

One would have thought that given the affected moral air the foreigners in our midst flaunt before us, they would have found ways of complementing the concern of many us …

If Dr. Odeniyi and President Obasanjo want to consult with God, well, that’s all fine and dandy; but they should do it in the privacy of their homes and hearts. …

Nigeria has become such a country that glorifies graft and celebrates ill-gotten wealth that “public service” has become an oxymoron, a blatant paradox when viewed against the warped tapestry of …

Where there is a need to grant Kudos to Mr. Obasanjo; where it is appropriate to accept that he has grown in stature greater than any Nigerian living or dead, …

Okadigbo came, saw and conquered nothing. He played, changed the rule, but at the end, he won nothing and may never be remembered for anything politically speaking…

One has often wondered when individual Nigerians would begin to ask themselves questions such as “what can I do?” or “what can we do?” to solve the nation’s myriad of …

The Life and Music of I. K. Dairo, Rex Jim Lawson and their protege, Wale Glorious and Orlando Owoh…