Nigeria Matters

Nations always compete fiercer than businesses compete. Doing everything to scuffle and derail potential challengers, has been the rule of the game. For nations ahead in the game, they take …

Few days ago, Transparency International came out with a damning report to the effect that Nigeria is the 35th most corrupt country on earth. This was coming on the heels …

David Iyofor should as a matter of fact and urgency keep on feeding the world with information about the governor in his own periscope…

Kalu has shown that he is not of the old block of politicians like those who have made every attempt to pull him down by all means…

The octogenarian mother of Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was kidnapped right from inside their palace last week.  Of course it had to happen in Delta State, the home of …

For the umpteenth time, the former Governor of Abia State is calling on the Igbo to unite, irrespective of their political affiliations and associations. He has been reaching out to …

Today, Nigeria is in a hell of crisis. It’s on a debt-based life-support. Over half of its employable workforce is unemployed. The accompanying social dislocations are increasingly beyond its carrying …

Young people make-up two thirds of the Nigerian population and we are unarguably faced with numerous problems ranging from unemployment, HIV/AIDS, Mass illiteracy, lack of educational opportunities, poverty, and a …

Why have Nigerian leaders even with the highest level of educational exposure and experience fallen short of the practice of modern democracy? I have espoused in other commentaries that it …

Please pardon me if I have gone against the African myth of keeping quiet amidst pains and suffering. I definitely cannot keep mute about the daily killings, kidnappings, and armed …

The convening of Njiko Igbo by Kalu is not sycophantic, but audacious. The overconfident Kalu sees the Njiko Igbo as an all important socio-political dais for a president of Igbo …

I see undeserving idiots, mediocre, charlatans and thieves being lauded and acclaimed everyday by the government, the society, religious segments and even the academics with the conferment of dubious honours, …

Come to think of it, as at the time I wrote, the House of Representatives Committee headed by Farouk Lawan  established the payment of a hefty N3 trillion as phantom …

The perceived show of might between the Rivers State Governor and the striking lecturers of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology under the umbrella of ASUU has taken …

It has become obvious that the fear of Kalu is the beginning of political wisdom in not only Abia State, but in Nigeria, if the likes of Orji are having …

In recent times, our once respectful, disciplined and hardworking youths have earned some uncomplimentary remarks in a society that has rubbed them of the better part of their lives, with …