Nigeria Matters

Persons have oftentimes been betrayed by those that they held in high esteem. Relationships between friends, wives and husbands, parents and children have always been battered on the altar of …

I feel constrained to join issues with you on the fallacies contained in your address to the 38th Annual Conference of the United States National Conference of Black Mayors in …

With his recent declaration intent to change the name of University of Lagos in honor of the winner of June 12 1993 presidential elections, Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan has …

During the Ibori saga in London I had decided to refrain deliberately from commenting on the fortunate outcome of the Ibori kleptocracy because while happy with the development as it …

I am convinced that when Fashola and his cohort embarked on the ill-advised decision to summarily sack the almost entire medical workforce in Lagos State, little did they give any …

Few hours before this year’s Democracy Day speech was aired, I had a discussion with an erudite scholar on the successes of this administration after a year in office with …

When a collectivity of people decide to come together and live together under the umbrella of one government, such decision is a contract. It is aimed at promoting their inalienable …

Nigeria is never in short supply of enablers.  They are scattered all over the nation, but most of them reside in the southern part of the country.  A disproportionate number …

Losing elections is never fun for politicians anywhere in the world and more so in our political system, where self interest often overrides public duty considerations and elections are contested …

Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s speedy response through a television broadcast quelling the minds of the residents on the explosion which nearly sent the residents packing does not only require commendation, but …

For Nigeria to successfully manage her sovereign-wealth fund, transparency and probity must be underpinning tools that must be present. Transparency is doable and possible when responsible and patriotic Nigerians are …

When the news filtered into the Nigerian environment that Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with a Canadian company, Globim Corporation, for the …

The upsurge in kidnapping of prominent indigenes in the 27 local councils that make up the state raises crucial questions which the Imo government are not answering. Questions like: who …

Boko Haram, ‘Western Education Is Forbidden’, is waging a bloody campaign of bombs in Nigeria. Thus far and still counting the Islamic extremist sect whose main goal reportedly is to …

There has been various suggestions by different thoughtful minds on the need to eradicate a few living human species among us, particularly here in Nigeria where a few group of …

The blog reads that Kalu’s aristocratic house in Gambia is now on sale. The report went further to induce Nigerians that the house was put on sale at a ludicrous …