Nigeria Matters

Lady Orji should have known and understood that it is not everybody in our state that has money like her family before she called and tasked corporate bodies and individuals …

In any locality, state or country where the leader is weak, not as a result of old age, but out of incompetence, such an environment is bound to grow weaker …

The state capital of Rivers is undergoing another political crisis. That is neither a novelty, nor particularly significant. The treasure-base routinely seems to set-in the throes of emergency…

When I met Governor Rotimi Amaechi, I was, in the words of an anonymous writer, looking down. When I left him, however, I was looking up. Besides the notorious or …

Two issues grabbed the headlines this weekend. Here, I will try to examine these issues as reflections of the state of our country Nigeria…

Social injustice in our country is the real clog in the wheel of progress of the country. This is what Kalu has been toiling to re-write, to make the message …

We have a largely complicit elite class that’s just too comfortable and happy with the status quo to be bothered about changing it – only rising up in response to …

Permit my reminiscences about a land I left behind so long ago. Permit my tears and frustration about a country I love and cherish so much. It is early morning …

The sudden and violent outbursts of power-mongers rowdies are often triggered by the authorities’ failing to meet their unlawful demands…

Last week, our conclusion as citizens and students of politics was that the most fascinating political formation in the country at the moment is the newly formed All Peoples Congress…

Orji has refused to budge for progress. The only progress his government is making is to manufacture nasty stories against anyone who dares to pinpoint these facts…

Regrettably, some Nigerian commentators – specifically, Igbo and Yoruba tribal warriors – are also beginning to wreck my enjoyment of Saharareporters and other Nigerian internet-based discussion forums…

From the mouth of his deputy, Prince Eze Madumere, we heard that Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha is interested in contesting the 2015 presidential election…

The Nigerian Government under president Goodluck Jonathan’s government appreciates the role Nigerians in Diaspora are playing in the development of the country through their expertise and remittance of money…

Given that politics in Nigeria is based on and practised with no reference to ideology, very strange things can easily happen in Nigerian politics. Its actors are prone to improvising …

I had often heard that Oyo State was difficult to govern and Ibadan, in particular, was impossible. And I had often wished I governed the State one day….just for one …