Nigeria Matters

It has been more than 80 days after terrorists in the guise of Islamists kidnapped over 200 school girls in Chibok Nigeria. And it goes without saying that the unprecedented …

One of the things that I cannot do as a discourse analyst involved with public issues and policies is to focus unnecessarily on personalities or personal attributes of prominent people …

I once bought fish in Portharcourt with distended stomach filled with crude oil. My friend, Green Douglas, who had a thriving  farm of cassava, yams and other agricultural products, now …

For me, one of the most disconcerting facts about public discourse in Nigeria—including intellectual exchanges—is the rampant, if not default, deployment of ethnic or religious sentiments…

It is only in Orji’s Abia State that a government could not account for the money it has so far received from the Federation Account…

The sad events of the past couple of days – which were reportedly orchestrated by some disgruntled members of the Edo State House Of Assembly – paint a horrible spectacle …

My impromptu trip to Nigeria was an experience that will continue to linger in my mind. The news of my mom in comatose made me very unsettled and agitated…

A contemptible, uncreative elite, its obsession with conspicuous consumption matched by its inability to produce anything of value, has overseen Nigeria’s obscene, record-setting squandermania…

This much quoted biblical aphorism is very often avoided by prosperity pastors when they preach before man-made gods. They also do not tell the truth which says ,”What does it …

Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji is really working in Abia State for only those he has marshaled out to be praising him, not for the collective well-being of the state…

Throughout history and throughout the world, some names have become synonymous with wickedness and negativity.  Some names are only famous for their notoriety.  Joseph Mbu, the current Commissioner of Police …

When I saw Lamido Sanusi’ picture in the Nigerian press, I said to myself, that is a chip off the old block. Long may he reign!!!

This piece analyses the burgeoning intensity of violence in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria, consequent to the apocalyptic campaigns of Boko Haram – a fundamentalist Islamist group that has been …

When the name June 12 comes up, everyone fidgets and wonders the direction of the ensuring political discourse. Even if one were to be thinking or referring to something absolutely …

Whenever I want to leave Gov. Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State alone in order to see if he will change the compass of his stranded way of governing that …

There is a sense in which the name of the malaise afflicting Nigeria is Biafra. I have argued before—and I must do so again—that Nigeria’s refusal to confront and address …