Nigeria Matters

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 …

Every beer parlour in the country is filled with repeated factual narrations by compatriots who know the secrets of the Ogbologbos in Nigeria. Some are telling us about the documented …

The simmering debate on the deportation of some people of Igbo extraction by Governor Fashola has opened up a bigger debate on the necessity of the colloquy that must take …

Offensive frisking of Nigerians at airports all over the world is as a result of the halo of stereotypes orbiting the heads of my people. In my small US town …

Let me take the very intelligent and master historian Fani Kayode on a historical journey as well and as much as he has taken everyone. If he remembers his history …

A few years ago, I found myself lusting after a young lady from Ogun State.  She had a body and a backside that simply made a man’s eyes water.  You …

This piece is not about religion, but about the law of life. It is about the recklessness and impunity with which those who hold the reins of power in Nigeria …

I believe that the time has come for Nigeria to move from being a giant on paper to being a real one in Africa. I believe that to do this, …