Nigeria Matters

As I reflect on what Nigeria has become, what with the orgy of blood typified by the weekly ritual of bomb blasts at Nyanya, it is clear that something will …

It is a long overdue and indeed a perennial demand of the entire Nigerian citizens that Nigerian democracy and governance development does not need Immunity Clause in the constitution…

If it is any consolation, it means kleptocracy is not unique to Nigeria; but I will not rejoice in that knowledge, as some people will be quick to point out …

That Nigeria has passed South Africa as Africa’s largest economy—when calculated by Gross Domestic Product—is almost old news.  The coverage of that feat afforded Nigeria’s image a rare shining moment …

The rains are here again bringing to public glare the many mendacities of the Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji government of Abia State…

Some of our brothers have turned the country upside down.  Fear stalks citizens like long lazy shadows.  Abuja, in particular, is as nervous as a virgin.  If it’s not Boko …

I think the greatest threat to governance in Nigeria is the bombardment of rightist propaganda depicting lies as honest, praiseworthy, and nationalistic…

We, the more than 200 victims of Boko Haram’s latest savage bomb attacks, feel we must write to you from beyond the grave. Our simple message is summed up in …

I do not know what to say or write here that will make sense. In other terrorism-infested climes, an attack like the one at Nyanya will not be taken lying …

Whatever the sons of late Pa Oji Okoko are saying, the in-thing is that they disappointed their father in death no matter who they said was it that persuaded them …

Much of the elder Agbaso’s worry today is not about the circumstances that led to the reprehensible ouster of his brother as deputy governor, but the belief that the present …

It was supposedly in the words of Kalu that some policemen in Abia State are likely to be breaching the rights of individuals by arresting some journalists, thereby abusing their …

Mr. Moro, Nigeria’s Minister of the Interior, is sitting pretty precisely because the Nigerian state has scant regard for Nigerians wounded by the festering sore of poverty. That sentence actually …

Over 150 people were reportedly killed recently by Fulani herdsmen in an attack on three villages of Ugwar Sankwai, Ungwan Gata and Chenshyi, in Kaduna State…

Why tackle only the tip of an iceberg and leave the base to rot? For as long as the “political detractors” of the likes of Adeyemi Ikuforiji remain un-arrested and …

I’m not able to swear that Mr. Jakande did not take a single overseas trip, but the odds are that he didn’t. At any rate, if he traveled out of …