Nigeria Matters

Sometime in November, 1996, an undergraduate University student made a call and pretended to be George Tawlon Manneh Oppong Ousman Weah, the current President of Liberia, who was then the …

The Tonye Cole Campaign Organisation, TCCO, said it received with shock the reported public reprimand of traditional rulers by the governor of Rivers State, Barr. Nyesom Wike at the 108 …

“History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s dam is the history we make today.” – …

“SPECIAL REPORT: The men who embezzled Nigerian Airways to death, October 29, 2018 by Nicholas Ibekwe, PREMIUM TIMES” A friend who sent the link to this report was very considerate …

A second aid worker held hostage by Islamist militant group, Boko Haram, was executed after a negotiation deadline purportedly expired. Hauwa Mohammed Liman, 24, was kidnapped by Boko Haram in …

Ghana is the 2nd largest exporter of Cocoa in the world after Ivory Coast. Cocoa is the former Gold Coast’s main cash crop & its chief agricultural export. Ghana exported …

When the khaki boys struck on the 15th of January, 1966, expectations within the populace, who had grown tired of the political class, were initially sky-high. The jackboots were hailed …

Professor Ladipo Akinkugbe, Philosopher, Statesman and Physician in his Autobiography titled, FOOTPRINTS AND FOOTNOTES, revealed he visited the then President Olusegun Obasanjo forty times in the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Akinkugbe …

This is the time to strategize and clamor for the emergence of an Igbo president of Nigeria in 2023 after the second term of President Muhammadu Buhari. The real Igbo …

I must have sounded very caustic, cynical, contemptuous and sentimental – as some would have by now concluded – in the blunt manner I randomly carpeted the razzmatazz that accompanied …

Watchers and political strategists of unfolding global political events will not underestimate Atiku’s candidacy in Nigeria. Buhari and Buharists shouldn’t thread that road too, or be complacent to see Atiku’s …

After the Ekiti governorship election, where it was bested by the All Progressives Congress (APC), the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) raised a terse allegation that it was outdone in that …

The results of the APC primary election in Lagos State few days ago is very instructive. What we must take away from it is the potent power of the ordinary …

Nigerian politics is a funny amphitheater of absurdity. It would have been the funniest comedy skit, if not that it is dangerously toying with the lives and destiny of over …

I beg the readers of this piece to excuse my rather sarcastic, pessimistic and raucously discordant tone, which is born out of my candid disapproval of the   pomp and pageantry …

I always refuse to put all the blame on the British for our current maladies and unfortunate circumstances. Yes, they seem to have handed over to some ill-prepared leaders, but …