Nigeria Matters

Last week, I suggested that President Muhammadu Buhari has squandered a full month of his presidential tenure doing little. Many readers understood the spirit of the piece, which is, quite …

The statement calling on Nigerians to celebrate themselves is open to logical disputation, polemic and exposition. It was not given much thought. It is one of the many headline catching …

Just a month into his inaugural tenure as President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the infant administration of Muhammadu Buhari is …

Lest we become guilty of what we accuse others of doing, it is imperative that we calmly but unequivocally state that the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) …

President Muhammadu Buhari is dangerously close to leaving Nigerians disillusioned. Forget about his failure (as at this writing) to announce his cabinet, bad as it is. For me, the deeper …

The agitation for the state of Biafra has been a struggle that is not alien to Nigeria. Many of us that were not born when the Nigerian civil war was …

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo are being held to their campaign promise to declare their assets in public. As I do not consider that call as useful as …

In the glaring absence of political thinkers, who would have pointed to a new, more relevant societal system and order, the legacy of the British colonial legal system, economic order, …

One of our problems as a people, as a society, is our intrinsic inability to be sincere, even with ourselves, and from this derives dishonesty, which leads to corruption, deceit, …

APC was formed as a progressive political party. But happenings since the inauguration of the party on May 29, 2015 suggest that there may not be a departure from what …

In the aftermath of the inauguration of the 6th democratically elected president of Nigeria, the pandering predilections that heralded the outcome of the presidential polls are gradually fading away. All …

This is a treatise on sociocratic change as a more humane and enduring system of governance. It will free us from ideological bondage, as well as from neo-colonial manipulations and …

Recently, I was jolted by a report I stumbled upon about the brutal abduction, terrorisation and illegal detention of a hapless young man in Enugu by the bodyguards of the …

Muhammad Buhari has been campaigning, running for the office of the President of Nigeria since 2003. That is a long time – twelve years to be exact. I don’t know …

The revolutionary election of March 28th, 2015, that produced president Buhari as winner was a bloodless and silent revolution. This revolution was carried out collectively by a determined hapless people …

By the time you read this, you should have seen President Muhammadu Buhari’s list of ministerial and Special Advisers nominations. If not, then welcome to the painful reality of a …