Nigeria Matters

Elections and electioneering campaigns are becoming interesting in Nigeria these days with the unthinkable number of political parties struggling for visibility and prominence.  The dynamics of a successful election are …

Since Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, released what he called a ‘teaser’ to the list of looters that vandalized and wrecked the country’s treasury especially during the immediate past PDP …

Femi Fani-Kayode was born into the family of the late political gladiator and renowned lawyer, Chief Remi Fani-Kayode. Chief Remi served in so many capacities being one of the political …

When I saw the nauseating and uglified APC 2019 election posters of Musiliu Obanikoro, the former PDP Minister of State for Defense under the ineffectual and corrupt administration of Goodluck …

So PDP apologized for ‘mistakes’ it made before it was swept to the dustbin three years ago. Its National Chairman, Uche Secondus organized a forum for its waning members in …

The sting in the comments by erstwhile British Prime Minister, David Cameron, describing Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt” will linger for a long time. Perhaps what makes the animadversion more jarring …

The current state of the nation is a sad story! Most of us in the diaspora are so upset with the way Nigerian elders reason and play on our intelligence. …

The Nigerian senate has once again shot itself on the foot. This time with a dangerous AK-47 assault rifle. This time there is no whodunit. We know who fired the …

I have only just returned from our dear motherland and the story remains the same – bad leadership, bad roads, electricity failure – no light, corruption galore, fuel scarcity, kidnappings, …

When a rich community with a rich culture begins to lose its identity and redefining its rich cultural heritage, the conscientized elders in that community must have an emergency meeting …

The time is now for our politicians to be proactive about what direction our nation will be moving from now on.  My experience with my friends and other Nigerians both …

My heart bleeds each time I come across the myriad of propaganda materials in Nigeria. There are countless materials on the mantra of change, corruption, rule of law, orientation and …

Come 2019, the citizens of the Federal Republic of Nigeria will once again participate in another General Election, and as has become the tradition in these parts, the members of …

For Dino Melaye, the voluble senator of Kogi West and an acolyte of the tainted Senate President, Bukola Saraki, the cup of recall which his people unleashed against him has …

…Chidi Lloyd, others threaten counter armed group, says 200,000 cults, militia groups exist in Rivers. …Threatens to set up another safety corps. Some prominent sons of Rivers state, under the …

This article opens up with a rejoinder to Yahaya Balogun’s feature article titled – “The Audacity of Envisioned Nigerian Youths to Rewrite History” in the Nigerians in America forum. That …