Nigeria Matters

A political cultist group emerged after military rule. A man-made god reverence dominated our political space, whereby a few men dictated their subject ideas about how Nigeria must be governed…

What baffles me is that Obasanjo did not consider the way and manner he emerged as the Presidential Candidate of the PDP in his first term as unfortunate in view …

Young Nigerians now understand that President GEJ is not above errors. The President himself has demonstrated that man is not infallible…

If he had any of such titles as Major General or Lieutenant Colonel prefixed to his name, Owelle Rochas Okorocha would have failed woefully in the 2011 election…

Those who did not study the history of political theory are wading into the domain of political science and practice, half blind and half deaf…

Some of our ‘Ogas at the top’ behave as if they do not need love from their ‘Boys at the bottom’. They loathe showing kindness to their boys. What they …

Barely a toddler in the Nigerian politics in 2007, Princewill was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate of the then Action Congress, AC, for the governorship of Rivers State. This came …

Christmas is celebrated on December 25th each year. It has been taken as a consecrated fiesta of Christians, no matter that history shows the celebration as archetypical of the ancient …

What many opulent Nigerians term as leadership is the exhibition of their exotic cars, power bikes, mansions, companies, pictures from foreign lands…

The thorny, stony, pathway from brute to man, from man to god and from god to demi-god, can only be trodden with the help of incandescent light and Grace…

Let me state from the outset that I do not intend to contend the veracity of the issues you raised in your letter.  But I intend to provide the appropriate …

The Obasanjo who emerges in his daughter’s letter struck me as an altogether familiar figure. There are, for me, few surprises, save for the daughter’s unflinching marshaling of evidence unknown …

At the Enugu State Correspondents’ Chapel Press Week held on November 10, 2013, Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State raised hope of recalling the non-indigenes who were working in …

Everybody is crying in Abia State, except those cronies of the governor in government and those by the side who have ways of benefiting from the government…

If you have acquainted yourself with the political thought of Joseph Stalin, Garibaldi or Machiavelli, you may be near to unmasking the political behavior of Olusegun Obasanjo…

I was just curious to know two things – one, what is that tangible thing that we as Nigeria or Nigerians have ever produced that is of benefit to the …