Nigeria Matters

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…

The time will come when any person aspiring to any political office in the nation will be required to have at least a credit grade in English language…

Over the years leaders of the Edo South stocks have emerged; we have Charles Idahosa, Osazee Ize-Iyamu, Prof. Edun Akenzua, as well as others too numerous to mention. These Sons …