Nigeria Matters

My name is Mallam Boko Haram and I am proud to so introduce myself. I am the public enemy number one of the confused federal government of Nigeria. But I …

I’m staunchly determined not to write about the sentencing, today, of former Governor James Onanefe Ibori in a UK court. There are sound reasons not to dwell on the subject …

Instead of working hard to liberate the state from the mess it is in, speculations surround Orji that he is banking money to mobilize the people of the state for …

That Ibori’s infamy hit rock bottom when he finally pleaded guilty to sundry thievery charges because all his forgeries at the end of the day could not pull the wool …

I have just finished reading an interesting book called The Mafia: The First 100 Years written by two authors William Balzamo and George Carpozzi jnr. This courtesy of an intellectual …

The petroleum sector is said to be accounting for about 90% of the nation’s overall revenue in a typical fiscal year. However, crude oil theft, which is certainly not a …

Most big Nigerian politicians encounter no law – divine or secular – they feel tempted to observe. In fact, to be a prominent politician is to be above all laws, …

For a popular hitherto pro-people writer who reportedly ‘solicited’ for the Aso Rock employment thus deposing his predecessor Ima Niboro Dr Abati gave himself away unwittingly as an ambitious man …

We suggest Orji should learn from Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, ex-Governor of the state and his political mentor, whom many ndi-Abia have seen as their choice…

While scrutinizing his government, as was reported on March 11, 2012, Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State said that over 2,000 Rivers and non-Rivers indigenes have so far benefited from …

Most urgent needs in Abia State are not attended to; but we heard last time that – like father like son – Orji’s beating about the bush compelled his bigheaded …

With the micro cases of kidnapping activities in Rivers State, the perpetrators of the devilish act are making us a people of little faith…

Until the institution of transparent elections take root in Nigeria, the minimal expectations of accountability by elected officials is bound to remain a mirage…

Kalu should not stop until positive things outnumber negative things in Nigeria. His body language on the position at the World Bank suggests that those involved in it should never …

Like everything Nigeria, the spate of bombings in the country has taken another dimension, with faceless living human beings among us senselessly going after innocent church worshippers and Islamic pupils…

President Jonathan made an audacious move with the reconstitution of National Economic Management Team, essentially to engage in finding solutions to economic mishaps in the country…