Nigeria Matters

Occasionally it becomes one’s fortune to read a statement that so closely captures one’s thinking about an issue. When that happens, one is freed from the burden of finding one’s …

If the news emanating from APC Kogi State is true, then we should be re-arming our political arsenals to prevent  APC shenanigans in Kogi State. The dumb political maneuvering of …

“There is not a truth existing which I fear or wish unknown to the whole world.” – Thomas Jefferson “When it comes to the truth, the real bias is thinking …

Nigeria’s is a fascinating story of a corrupt country without a single corrupt person. In late September 2006, Nuhu Ribadu, the pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission …

In one of his recent articles, my brother and colleague, Oguwike Nwachuku, posited that based on the rabid anti-Igbo sentiment that seems to have become the all-consuming pastime of some …

Reading through a press statement purportedly written and signed by one Mr Tunde Aina, the National president, Kogi United forum, on the death of the late Abubakar Audu, gives one …

This might prove to be the foundation for a new, effective and efficient policing system in Nigeria. We will get there one day. It is certainly an improvement, forward-looking action …

Of all the accusations levelled against Sambo Dasuki, the ones that should rile every Nigerian, if true, are that he directed the Central Bank of Nigeria to transfer the sum …

Had ISIS not shocked the world by sponsoring a spree of deadly attacks at six locations in Paris last Friday, killing at least 128 people, the Nigerian social media space …

Prelude to the recent bitter exchanges between the Nigerian government and groups agitating for the establishment of a “Sovereign State of Biafra”, this column joined other close security watchers in …

You heard it here first! Since President Muhammadu Buhari unveiled his ministerial portfolios last week, an idea has been gaining currency in private discussions among Nigerians home and abroad: Babatunde …

Let me begin this intervention by making a solemn confession: by the time the great idea of Biafra was mooted and its attempted actualisation militarily aborted I was not yet …

Prof. Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian literary legend, has just released his latest book in which he dealt with many lies and liars that inhabit the geographical entity called Nigeria. Entitled …

A wise man with a wide following was once asked by a devotee of his teachings to show him an apple from Paradise. A fruit, which he imagined in his …

The Karma of justice has taken up permanent residence in the house of those who contributed to the Somalization of some Nigerian states in the last general election. The recent …

Last week, I exchanged a series of messages on Facebook with a young man who accused me of exhibiting “sentiments” and “self-interest” in my column titled “Buhari and the Syndrome …