Nigeria Matters

The children who are subjected to carry their family responsibilities today, without doubt, have a bleak future. Many are hidden from public view because of the harsh situations they work …

In the course of life, there are certain things you don’t want to remember.  Really, truly, certain era are best forgotten.  Some names and people you don’t want to remember.  …

I am dwarfed to write on Late Chief Gani Oyesola Fawehinmi SAM, SAN. Chief Gani who died exactly four years ago…

It is very disturbing that in the last two months, Nigerian politics has been full of “sound and fury” signifying stalled governance, near bankruptcy, proliferation of new political parties opposed …

Sometimes, it appears the easiest thing to do is to give up on Nigeria.  But that might be the cowardly way to go.  We shouldn’t do that just yet.  So …

This is a product of my friendly Facebook spat with my oga. Recently, somebody posted on facebook that our president, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan had stormed out of a meeting …

One of the ways to live is to be diligent. We live for something and, most times, die for something. But fear is worse than death…

If anybody had told me that we would be playing a broken record of the antecedents of the unfortunate demise of President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua so soon, I would not …

PDP, that party that flatters itself as the biggest party in Africa, is strapped to a death bed. It is hit with a serious ailment. It is ravaged by schism …

No matter what you thought of Olusegun Obasanjo’s leadership of the country and the PDP, you almost wished that OBJ was back in charge; for he had a strong spine. …

My people! the woman is a miracle. Her hands are ‘clean’. But I’m not sure what could have happened if there were no women who still wear wrapper to give …

Democracy includes the maintenance and the nurturing of effective State structures and organs in an efficient and fair manner.  Democracy involves listening to your people and acting in everyone’s behalf.  …

No one gives a hoot what new party springs up. Nigerians’ minds are already made up that a new party is just like a new church or mosque springing up …

In the blind rage to throw FFN under the bus, in front of the train, and later into the River Niger, all of us have conveniently forgotten to address the …

Some persons resort to exhibiting the trait of madness in whatever thing they do and have the philosophy that there is freedom and safety in madness…

What our people have come to endure in Gov. Orji’s government are multiple taxations, intimidation by security agents and gross dilapidated infrastructure that cut across all the areas in the …