Nigeria Matters

Beloved Prince Tonye Princewill, it might not be your greatest of needs, but it is a social and spiritual observable fact that appreciation is one of the emotional needs of …

Just last week we got news of the death of Mrs Sheila Solarin, wife of the late author, educationist and social activist, Dr Tai Solarin. Mrs Sheila Solarin was very …

It’s been 98 solid years since Nigeria, as we know it today, embarked on a 100-year marathon to…one wonders, NOwhere while never preparing for the NOWhere…

It was Carl Sagan who said that we have arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away …

Nigeria is becoming a den of news. The Abia State Government led by Governor Theodore Orji is one of the most hit in recent times. His government is a beehive …

How many flood ravaged states and communities has President Goodluck Jonathan visited since the beginning of these nationwide inundation and saturation by water?

Why is the world racing apace into brutality of religious Armageddon? Who will heal the resurgence of religious intolerance that is daily reconfiguring the children of the bondwoman into extremist …

Regrettably, Nigerian presidents – especially the last eight – have not been honest in their state of the nation addresses.   Their speeches are clustered around political correctness rather than providing …

Ndigbo and their areas play a very innermost role geographically in Nigeria’s affairs, no matter the political shift of this fact to any region of the country to own the …

Despite the upsurge of Christian and Islamic fundamentalism and fanaticism in Nigeria, there is dearth of volunteerism in Nigeria. Volunteerism is profoundly absent and yet, Nigerians are said to be …

The clandestine and often veiled reference to the politics of a second term beyond 2015, involving the interest and the re-election of the incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, which have often …

President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday October 9, 2012 announced plans by the federal government of Nigeria to respond to the current ravages of floods throughout Nigeria…

Jungle justice has been defined as when a population, precisely an irate mob, takes it into their hands to execute punishment on alleged offenders of a heinous crime. The alleged …

Why are we here, and where must we need go after now? The story of Pa Viemudu Igho tells it a little. And a great account as this should start …

Even as those four young men were being bludgeoned to death and burnt, elsewhere in Port Harcourt, the rains had started. Gently at first; then it started pouring. Then as …

Fifty two years after what is largely described as our flag independence, Nigeria lies wrecked and hobbled. A country that breathed much hope and inspiration fifty two years ago is …