Nigeria Matters

I start with our marginalized under-class.  They are those who did not have the benefit of enlightenment in their youth…

Abia State in south-east Nigeria is known as “God’s Own State” with Umuahia as the capital city. The Executive Governor is one ‘Ochendo’ Theodore Ahamefule Orji who made some history …

Those who have been calling for revolution in Nigeria do not mean well for Nigeria. Some are disgruntled elements who are not well-placed any more in the scheme of things …

When you compare Jerome Cahuzac with the profligate Governor of Akwa Ibom state, for example, you are likely going to come out with what is wrong with us as a …

If we want to be honest then we cannot but admit that Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio, is not the only leading political figure in Nigeria indictable for manipulating …

These days, I get easily angered by events happening in Nigeria. But probably nothing has riled me more than the latest garbage that emanated from the warped orifice of Reuben …

I first saw that irresponsible phrase on Facebook after those bokoharamic bombs began to fall on churches in the North. Our people were aghast at the seeming inability of the …

A cult of personality arises when an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods, to create an idealized, heroic, and, at times god-like public image, often through unquestioning flattery …

About two or three weeks ago, one court in one oyinbo country gave judgement against four Nigerian farmers in the Niger-Delta. Their farms, their only sources of livelihood were destroyed …

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…