Nigeria Matters

Long before Nigerian politics descended abysmally into the realm of name-calling, abuse, vituperative musings and irredentism, we had written two articles on the need for a National Conference…

What Abia State has become under Gov. T.A. Orji is sad and qualifies to be declared a Disaster Area, as hoodlums have taken over the whole of the state…

Human experience indicates that whenever you see an old dog discover a new trick, one should ask good questions. Hence, the national skepticism that has greeted the discovery of national …

Governor Okorocha, it is my firm belief that you have forgiven Gov. Orji, because he operates like a hypnotized person. I’ve told you of how he is quarreling with everybody …

Look around and you might notice the disgraceful sight of various ethnic social cultural groups parading themselves as serving the interest of their tribes and people…

I love my country no be small. But, I have, just like many other citizens of this great giant of Africa, long been aware that there are some problems confronting …

We have read or heard about the different relocations of peoples in Abia State that mainly comprise traders from one point to another. But what we were not told was …

A state that would pay bursary to Abia students across the country is the one that was in 2012 unable to pay the six percent and 15 percent increase in …

It is well over 50 years since the rein of government passed fully to Nigerians and I am still amazed that some people in different quarters still believe that we …

If tragedies and disasters occur under the watch of an aviation team-leader, it is only understandable why many may opine that the leader’s hands are dripping and glossed up with …

The job of the government is not only to promote and protect the welfare of its people; it is its constitutional and primary duty to defend people against internal and …

At the airport I checked in my lone bag, passed through security check and headed straight for the gate, and I saw the plane. It looked like an abandoned piece …

Nigeria is 53 years as a nation on 1st October 2013. This writer joins millions of Nigerians both at home and in the diaspora  to mark the  occasion  with sober …

Just last week, the Nigerian Ambassador to the US, Prof. Ade Adefuye, perhaps in a fit of non-alcoholic wine-induced fervor, pronounced God a Nigerian.  The man is a Professor of …

For me, our problems started with the military’s insidious and invidious incursion into governance in Nigeria. They caused the majority of our problems today. They divided us; they misruled us; …

Nigeria definitely has never had it this bad. When in the history of Nigeria, even under Abacha has the Federal Government been so broke it cannot pay state allocations? This …