Nigeria Matters

Last Saturday, President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan addressed Nigerians for the second time in as many weeks. This time, he attempted a multi-pronged defense of his decision to remove fuel subsidy. …

Over the last few days, Nigeria has found herself in a very unique conundrum, a situation that calls for reflections especially on the part of the Nigerian leadership…

As an outsider, I do not know when the subsidy began but my own understanding of the issue takes off from the Babangida/Abacha regimes.  I think things took a decidedly …

The presentation by Mrs. Okonjo-Iweala as statistically, graphically impressive and persuasive, as it was, seemed unauthentic. At the risk of stating that her position of now championing removal of subsidy …

Since the return of 56 secondary and 1040 primary schools in Anambra State to the missionaries on 21st November, 2011, Governor Peter Obi of the state has experienced vocal and …

It is becoming increasingly and unbearably painful to read now on a regular basis, the bombings taking place in Nigeria and the attendant wanton and unnecessary loss of life.  It …

One cannot stop wondering why the priorities of President Jonathan included the fuel subsidy removal and one 7-year presidential term rather than fixing the critical power sector and the dilapidated …

The Government must realise before it is too late, that leadership is about listening to the yearnings of the citizens, ensuring the happiness of the greater majority, matching its words …

Aso Rock Villa connotes power. It remains a mystery to many Nigerians except the privileged few who have had access to its formidable walls. Yet this gargantuan and mysterious edifice …

To win this impending battle against both our foreign and domestic imperialists, we should all support the ongoing government efforts. That is the only we can expect these enemies of …

This must be the worst New Year that Nigerians have celebrated since the civil war ended in 1970. The ill-advised removal of oil subsidy and the attendant increase in petrol …

The onset of a primordialised Nigeria held captive by a retrograde strain of theomanic Boko Haram should offer us a broader discursive narrative of the fiction of our oneness…

I have written this because of my awareness of the attendant risks in the society we live in and the fragility of human life. Don’t be a dead hero, martyrdom …

Nigeria has 4 fully functional refineries as at 1988 built by the Military regimes with a total capacity of 450,000 barrels per day production. Bearing in mind that our daily …

The removal of “Oil Subsidy” is actually a way of punishing Nigerians for the failure of an inept government to effectively fight corruption, not only in the oil industry, but …

Following sober Christmas celebrations in some parts of the country, the administration of President Goodluck Jonathan delivered a frightening New Year gift to Nigerians in the name of fuel subsidy …