Nigeria Matters

A few days from now, we shall be headed to the polls for the 2015 Presidential and national assembly elections. Then two weeks later, the governorship and state assembly elections …

On Saturday (March 28, 2015), Nigerians will once again troop to the polls to choose who among the several contestants vigorously campaigning and scheming out there (mostly for self-serving reasons) …

On Saturday, the 28th of March, 2015, Nigerians will troop out to vote in the first of elections that is adjudged to be the defining step of a long-awaited change. …

Finally, the week has arrived when Nigeria will face the oddest and staunchest test for its electoral experimentation. Odd because, as I have argued for some time, the two acknowledged …

If not that Prof. Pius Adesamni is my Broda from another Mama, I would have cried havoc, and let loose my Koboko, on his ‘yansh’, for daring to accuse me …

As the race to the rescheduled general elections gets intense, many political parties have stepped up in their politicking. While frontline political parties are putting finishing touches to their winning …

Nigeria Election 2015! There have always been some asinine, farcical and insincere features to the politicking and electioneering in Nigeria, even long before the real election times. Nothing has ever …

Challengers don’t let things remain the way they are, they are advocates of change and will go the extra mile to see they emerge victorious in whatever contest they are …

The rescheduled elections will soon be here with us. An opportunity to exercise one’s democratic rights by helping to decide in whose hands the affairs of the country should be …

Two things are certain about this article; it will not be published by Sahara Reporters (they have proven to be a completely anti-Jonathan media outlet who are now so far from …

I have often argued that the entire Nigerian political machinery that bears the name “government” is little more than an arrangement to enable a few individuals to mindlessly loot the …

Now, let’s face it. Despite all the empty (and, often, very exasperating) noise about being driven by patriotism and “desire to serve my people” that usually saturates the atmosphere at …

Due to purported security concerns and other technical challenges, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) of Nigeria – the country’s chief electoral umpire – has postponed the general polls that …

Patience Jonathan, aka Dame Patience, aka First Lady, aka Dr. Chief (Mrs.), aka Mama Peace, has emerged as the standard for Nigeria’s current political season—with all the consequences and implications …

In 1960, as  a junior clerk in the Accounts Department of Nigerian Ports Authority, Port Harcourt, I used to board the NPA steamer to go and pay dock workers in …