Nigeria Matters

If we want Nigerian airlines to expand, be profitable and to employ more people, the efficient way forward is to make them competitive and attractive to not only Nigerians but …

The pattern of attacks is no longer confined to the North-Eastern state of Borno, it has spread to the North West and there had been unsuccessful attempt to spread South …

Nigerian civil servants are the laziest, most indolent, most ineffective and most corrupt breed of their kind in the world. They collude very enthusiastically and very willingly with the politicians …

What else could be called moral corruption? To the intellectual dude, politicians have morally crippled the country and the governance, but they will be destroyed by God…

Still fresh in most minds  is the president’s loud promise last year to ‘soon’ expose those behind the deadly bombings by the dreaded Boko Haram sect, and right now it …

The country’s perennial domestic disorder is due largely to destructive instinct which has continued to be synonymous with the abject and seething cauldrons of poverty of the largest population of …

I guess “the light” has finally come to Ekiti state in form of LCD powered panels called laptops purchased by our state governor in his wisdom for our 100,000 secondary …

I was reading a report in last Sunday’s edition of the Punch titled “FG Rules out Direct Talks with Boko Haram” when a statement by presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, jumped …

With globalization, banking turned into a Ponzi scheme. Like any other Ponzi scheme, bankers were the predators and investors the victims. And in favor of the predators government rigged the …

Delta state is in the sewer all by itself.  It has been tied up like a stunned cow with one Emmanuel Uduaghan benightedly pinning her neck to the ground in …

The Afenifere Renewal Group has come at the right time in Yorubaland to fill the needed leadership vacuum. From what it pulled off on March 6, this year at Lagos …

In Nigeria, tragedy often wears the garb of comedy. Last week’s duel featured Arunma Oteh and Herman Hembe as the principal adversaries. Ms. Oteh is the director-general of the Securities …

The government today dominates every sector of the economy, and prevents the rise of free enterprise to enable the Nigerian, getting in the way of innovation and prosperity: all in …

It’s one of the amazements of Nigerian life that the tumultuous events of last January seem now so terribly dim and faraway. But it was in January, two short months …

Where exactly is the basis for Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s greatness? That question sounds rather blasphemous coming from me, a young post-colonial Igbo who fancies himself a historian of some sorts…

The glorification of the dead Emeka Ojukwu began in Lagos where he grew up and studied in Nigeria like me. As a big fan of Ikemba, I was there at …