Nigeria Matters

Fashola’s enviable performance in Lagos state must have been the cynosure of all eyes as his government is being recognised by local and the international community…

The political leaders we have had in the state in the past 38years have obviously refused to be great and make their foot-prints known in the history of the state. …

President Goodluck Jonathan is notorious for moving at slower than the speed of a snail when called upon to address issues that rather demand alacrity. Yet, Nigerians are besieged by …

To a first-time visitor, much of Nigeria is likely to appear like the wreckage of a long war, what with its gutted roads, rutted infrastructure, the near-absence of electric power, …

Nigeria’s current most senior military officer is fat.  No, he is not just overweight.  He is obese.  Air Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh is the most out-of-shape military officer I have …

I have had several sad conversations in the past two weeks with friends who, like me, are from Anambra State. The conversations have focused on the local government election held …

What we can do is to raise our voices to a crescendo of resistance; speaking out against every form of police irresponsibility, abuse of power and brutality. We cannot subsist …

The truth about the government of Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State can only be bent, but cannot be broken…

The traffic situation in Akobo still remains the same as I left it four years ago. It is always a great battle from Akobo Ojurin axis to get to General …

The Nigeria presidency is under attack. This is true considering the barrage of abuse, insult and innuendoes targeted unfortunately at the office. The perpetrators of this act, under the guise …

To hate Israel is actually to hate yourself, because it is inviting God to hate you. To hate Israel is to bring darkness into the world. Satan knows it, and …

It’s become settled practice: every four years, INEC puts together an obscenely expensive show called “elections.” But the point of the bazaar is to enable the various political parties to …

If you are deft in the sign-language of politics you will agree with me that by now, every indication imaginable points to the fact that Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is running …

Since 1960, Nigeria has gone full circle. From coup d’états to relay military autocracies, to arrangee presidential impositions, rigged elections, Supreme Court awards to failed candidates, political fractiousness to fragmentations, …

In that now heathen cultures of the West and North America there are humans copulating with beasts today. And I wrote that what we don’t hear yet are human-beast copulation …

Let all those who see Kalu as Orji leave him alone. Businesses did not leave Abia State in droves during Kalu’s administration, but are leaving in droves under Orji’s government…