Nigeria Matters

2015 is on its way out, but not without the lingering issue of Biafra’s secession that resonated this year, pushed by those who felt marginalized and alienated in this present …

Anyone who has been reading my articles for many years would testify that I have special respect and admiration for General Muhammadu Buhari now President of the Federal Republic of …

It is rather fortuitous that Igwe Osita Agwuna 111, who for five decades reigned as Eze of the town of Enugwu Ukwu and Igwe of Umunri, was born in December …

Nigerian history is avoidably repetitious. If we the people refuse to learn from the ugly history, we are doomed to repeat it. Men of yesterday are stealthily coming to fore …

A name that has always been associated with controversy as far as the issue of national security is concerned, both during the military era and our present democracy, has been …

With the overthrow of the Nigeria Khakistocracy and Kleptocracy (1999-2014), a new Sociocratic dispensation is emerging. The tide has turned. The Socratic order is anchored on constitutionalism, the rule of …

Dear Mr President, As you add and commence a new journey into another year of your patriotism, statemanship and incorruptible life, we the people felicitate with you, and with your …

“Unemployment, underdevelopment and poverty everywhere in the land. Our people are living like animals; we cannot even rear our children” – Source Unknown. “Quite frankly, the war against Corruption is …

I believe that a nation need not be a fixed, immutable entity, but a living organism, susceptible (in keeping with laid out procedures and according to the wish of its …

Finally, somebody steps forward and names Goodluck Jonathan as the man who authorized… No… INSTRUCTED him to carry out all those ridiculous expenditures. Everybody knew it would eventually come to …

Yes, I agree we must put issues into perspective. In so doing, we cannot but conclude that in the ongoing Dasukigate stealing is not corruption, it is treason. Details coming …

The ‘toppled’ PDP government is fast unravelling. Since ex-President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ) stepped down by leaving Aso Rock Villa on May 29 this year the Buhari administration has been …

Almost every Nigerian agrees with the assertion that corruption is the greatest threat to the nation becoming the most desirable country to live in on the planet earth in record …

When an analyst trying to play funny, joked with the expression that Nigeria moves one step forward and several steps backward, the dramatization of such forward and backward movements made …

I have been distressed beyond words by what has crystallized as an agitation for Biafra’s divorce from Nigeria. I am disturbed that this agitation has become another occasion for the …

This is not an academic or professional article about what IGR or taxes are. We already know what they are and the role they play in governance in any country. …