Nigeria Matters

Over the last week or so, there has been heightened interest amongst Nigerians about the use of the most recently repatriated $322.5 million Abacha loot.  The questions raised around the …

The Rivers State Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Hon. Ojukaye Flag-Amachree, has denounced the penchant of Gov. Nyesom Wike for painting and inviting dignitaries across Nigeria to commission projects …

If you want to settle down to savor a hotchpotch of soup you made in the village populated by longthroated individuals-and of a thousand demons, you must be ready to feast …

Fresh after returning from the national convention of the APC in Abuja, a chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, the “prince of the Niger Delta” as he is fondly …

When he was farcically rigged out as Governor of Ekiti State four years ago, the perpetrators of that dastardly electoral gangsterism thought that Dr. Kayode Fayemi was finished in Nigerian …

Recently, Governor Nyesom Wike gave reason Rivers Ijaw cannot get a University. The governor, while speaking to the people of Ekpeye Ethnic nationality who paid him a solidarity visit at …

Better late than never is what many Nigerians are saying today.  The news of the Presidential honour for Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola, the acclaimed winner of the Freest, Fairest …

The formal recognition of “June 12” as the new date for the celebration (I prefer marking) of “Democracy Day” in Nigeria, and the bestowment of the country’s highest national honour, …

And from nowhere, June 12 that has assumed the form of abiku, shot up last week to victory in quite an unexpected form when President Muhammadu Buhari issued a presidential …

“The evil that men do live after them” – William Shakespeare With Obasanjo and Babangida as friends you don’t need enemies for Nigeria. These twosome (individualists) are the ghouls and …

The wisdom to discern between what is right and proper and what is ill-timed is important to us as a nation at this time in our development.  I was inspired …

From the ecstasy that followed the initiation, legislation, passage and presidential signing of the Not-Too-young-To- Run bill into law, it is as if Nigerian youths have been handed a life-extending …

The best way to be a popular politician in Nigeria is not to have a sense of shame. We must earnestly (de)normalize this wrong belief to bring Nigeria to sanity. …

“Corruption comes from low self-esteem, poor self-concept, low self-worth, fear of scarcity, and high manifestation of insecurity”. – Myles Monroe  “Blame is like the lightning; it hits the highest”. – …

As Nigerians celebrate the 2018 edition of the return of democracy to their country in 1999, following sixteen years of Jackboot dictatorship, this column bluntly examines the visceral facts of …

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is a troubled soul. What better way to show his restless nature than that at a time he would have been in retirement, the old man …