Nigeria Matters

He was unfit. We told them. His antecedent was a summary of grotesque incompetence. We screamed and clawed. We jawed and fought. Friends left. Strangers cursed us. They called us …

“Why is everybody stealing in Nigeria? Please, why the stealing? Here, in our country, stealing seems like an act of worship, that if you didn’t steal, you might lose the …

The last 48 hours has witnessed varying degrees of reactions to the trending video of a former Minster of Aviation in Nigeria, Femi Fani-Kayode, passionately rebuking a journalist for asking …

A proposal of Action Points developed from critical analysis of the inherent problems with fighting corruption and evaluation of good practices; relying on my strategic management experiences in both private …

“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete”. – Buckminster Fuller. It is no semantics to …

The Africa Network for Environment & Economic Justice, ANEEJ, has concluded a 2-Day capacity programme, tagged ‘Workshop for CSOs and Journalists on Procurement Monitoring , Observation and Open Contracting, held …

Rumbles, side-talks, murmuring, sighs and more. I was suddenly losing the attention of the civil society stakeholders I was making a presentation to on freedom of information in Edo State. …

I have often heard that politics in Nigeria is a game of ‘numbers’. For anyone who needs to understand what that metaphor stands for, they should know that democracy is …

The Late Senator Buruji Kashamu was ALLEGEDLY wanted in the US for drug offences, including trafficking, selling, etc. It was never proved and he was never found guilty. If fact, …

Even in death General Sani Abacha keeps donating money to Nigeria. No ancestor has ever been this good to the Giant of Africa. What a benevolent ancestor, even though some …

The Federal Government of Nigeria’s National Social Investment programme, N-SIP, with particular reference to N-power, for the purpose of this piece, which started four years ago, has been welcomed, accepted …

The powers-that-be of Boko Haram have never had it so good. It’s as though they are in power. Who has not heard that 601 so-called repentant, sorry, I meant to …

Nigerians are fond of turning very serious matters, even ones threatening the very life of their country, into objects of jokes and laughter. And so, as President Muhammadu Buhari’s anti-corruption …

Just like the All Progressive Congress (APC) which was driven by very poor judgment to ask him to pilot its affairs, there is no doubt that having Mr. Adams Oshiomhole …

Nigeria is a sacrament to mediocrity, stumbling towards Armageddon; a metaphor of dysfunction, hovering dangerously over the precipice. Over and above being a testament to the messy afterlife of colonialism, …

Let me start with a confession. I borrowed the title of this piece from the American Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. The novel and …