Nigeria Matters

Regardless of who wins the Anambra gubernatorial election, the successful conduct of the election adds a great impetus to those who believe and work for the unity and progress of …

The Ekiti State governorship election that brought in our embarrassment, THE garrulous and loquacious governor Ayodele Fayose, is a serious indictment on the then President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration. The nauseating …

The need for an urgent restructuring of the Nigerian federation has never been as expedient as it has become of late. The escalation in the volume of secessionist agitations in …

No doubt, President Buhari is fighting a battle of his life. It is not clear if he anticipated the kind of bloody, gritty battle he is facing as he tries …

As Owerri, Imo state, Nigeria, is beguiled with the uglification of statues of corruption, it is expedient to reflect on the sad story of my people back home in Imo …

Sule Lamido, remember him? He is the voluble, you can say loquacious, former governor of Jigawa State who strikes a multiple-personality image in his public conducts. Sule Lamido shows off …

The plethora of arguments centering on the unjust structuring of the Nigerian federation by the colonial masters, which gave the North an unfair advantage over the South in the distribution …

I have been called an “Igbo apologist”, a “basket mouth” and other derogatory and demeaning names due to my incessant calls for a better deal for the people of the …

The All Progressives Congress (APC) was formed on 6 February 2013, and, in less than two years, won Nigeria’s presidential election held on 28 March 2015. That victory was largely …

Sometimes I imagine myself as an alien; a being from outer space, visiting Earth incognito, and the first country I landed in in my spaceship was a country called Nigeria, …

In the aftermath of the civil war, the much expanded size of the military, around 250,000 in 1977, consumed a large part of Nigeria’s resources under military rule for little …

With all due respect to all of the 2019 Oyo State gubernatorial candidates who are not from the Oke-Ogun area, it is the turn of Oke-Ogun to produce the next …

Dear Mr. President, Consistency and enforcement of expectations provide the basis for effective governance. Lack of effective communication and shoddy information dissemination will soon tarry your administration. Sir, we the …

No doubt, the recent appointment of Justice Ayo Salami by the National Judicial Council (NJC) as the Chairman of the panel to monitor cases of corruption against judges is a …

Buhari’s efforts seem to be failing because of shoddy information from Aso Rock Villa, the seat of government. PDP and the children of corruption are having a field day for …

The recent happenings in our nation have led to the question, where is president Buhari? The answer remains a deafening silence. A lot of drama has been unfolding and revealing …