Nigeria Matters

I now believe that Nigeria made an error of monumental proportions by allowing the man called ‘IBB’ to take over the reins of power.  I believe the beginning of his …

The issue of ghost workers has become the bane and a recurring decimal of the Nigerian civil service, and it appears that there is no concrete mechanism in place to …

On January 19th this year the world was served a horrific photographic menu of scores of human bodies found floating on Ezu River in Amansea community of Anambra State. When …

Orji likes the gospel of division. He has been governing as one man who does not want to see the good in Abia State, because he lacks patriotism in every …

Chief Obafemi Awolowo successfully raised political, economic and legal discourss to intellectual levels in Nigeria. Through international conferences, both in Nigeria and abroad, Awo’s political thoughts are subjects of academic …

Chief Obafemi Awolowo successfully raised political, economic and legal discourss to intellectual levels in Nigeria. Through international conferences, both in Nigeria and abroad, Awo’s political thoughts are subjects of academic …

The relationship between the president and the governors has not been very cordial. During the burial of his younger brother last year in Bayelsa, the governors did not show up…

It would be very absurd to use the word ‘mess’ to characterize the government in Abia, but we can use the word…

Politicians live a life of noisy desperation. It is all about how to outsmart, outwit and oust any contrary opposition. Sometimes, what they term as opposition is not opposition in …

The Nigerian Judiciary should be reminded that it is setting a dangerous precedent.  If our justice system continues to give such miserly prison terms to these unrepentant and conscienceless rogues …

A somebody-nobody mind-set is at the root of corruption and underdevelopment in Nigeria. But this mindset is not necessarily birthed out of a househelp–family relationship. It stems from a personal …

In leadership, you do not expect the leader to be championing the cause of others other than those he or she was elected to head or spearhead. In my estimation, …

The First Lady lying comatose and breathless must have conjured the image of home without her imposing presence, her husband and her ‘rivals’; her children and above all the millions …

Umeh reminds me of how people in our country talk about religion so much, but hurl the word Karma around nonchalantly, as if it belongs to the Traditional Believers they …

Until recently, public outcries that government agencies have been mismanaging the revenues they generated have been received as fallacious. And because most past legislative investigations into these allegations have ended …

Silence is not always the best response to a fool, so that he or she does not continue to wallow in abject foolishness, because fools don’t find the truth behind …