Nigeria Matters

Before I walked the corridors of power briefly in 2010, I wrote articles as sharp as barbed wire nearly all a denunciation of government. I was saying all of these …

In Nigeria, between 1990 and 2010, there was significant increase in the poverty level, the percentage of people living at an income of less than $1 a day sharply increased …

I believe that the office of president anywhere there’s a democracy is a weak office. The chap occupying it equally is weak as well if truly the principles of fiscal …

In the Nigeria political conclave, with particular reference to Port Harcourt – the capital city of Rivers State – there abound different crop of politicians that represent  one, two or …

Everywhere you look inside Nigeria, violence seems to be gaining currency. We see the common theme of provocation leading to violence, pain, death, destruction, disrespect for law and order, collective …

Nigeria is presently governed and populated by rudderless leadership – and as well by such terrible followership to the extent of being led by the nostrils like some Elizabethan or …

It was reported widely last month that General Yakubu Gowon said that he supported the pardon of some jailed Nigerian citizens…

Before 2015 Nigeria can still be saved but we must urge collective vigilance and profound efforts in the resolution of the Nigerian project crisis. The best way to go about …

At the age of twelve, Achebe moved away from his family to the village of Nekede, four kilometres from  Owerri. He enrolled as a student at the Central School, where …

The Abia State Government-led by Governor Theodore Orji, without equivocation, sees lies as the best policy to replace good governance with…

Have Nigerians become depressed and feeble human beings who are out of touch with reality because of politics?

I had the rare honor and luck of being close to the revered Achebe for some thirty years. In that time, he was an inspiration, model, beacon of moral clarity …

As one of my friends will say, the greatest affliction is a self-chosen blindness just because it cannot be cured unless the person so afflicted decides to free himself from …

Imo PDP, that rustic club of free loaders, is angry. The members are weeping and gnashing their teeth. They are swearing and cursing. Chei, they want the good old days …

That the APC acronym has suddenly become the ‘beautiful bride’ being wooed by every Dick and Harry must send the clear message across of our degeneration as a nation. The …

It was the publication of There Was A Country that served as my sole premonition of the imminent death of my father Chinua Achebe. When he published it, my first …