Nigeria Matters

Nigeria’s president, Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been advised to focus on policies and programmes that will help put food on the tables of the ordinary Nigerians and make life better …

From time immemorial, the masses have relied on constituted governments to implement road projects for the socio-political economy of the society. Whichever government got the construction right would be praised …

There are only four elements you look for in a song. Intellectuals identify them as imagery, diction, sound and the flow or rhythm of the said song. What this easily …

Two highly-connected characters have their hands soiled in circumstances climaxing in the tragic death of 27-year-old Afrobeat Rapper and Musician, Mohbad, on September 12. Sam Larry is one. This music …

Abuja is the modern day Egypt. To receive services, you must tender your Tax clearance. Lol That was how Pharaoh made the Israelites to source for straw themselves and produce …

There is only one research document on abandoned, substandard and ‘ongoing’ projects in the Niger Delta. It is titled Citizen Report Card on Niger Delta Institutions, and it is ascribed …

Although the initial steps have to be taken by the individual, the picture of personality as having “power to uplift, power to depress, power to curse, and power to bless” …

“Death is…the absence of presence…the endless time of never coming back…a gap you can’t see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound” – Tom Stopard In …

The talk of oil thieves across the waters of the Niger Delta has made me to remember the journeys I undertook through the seas and waters once upon a dangerous …

After a house detention spanning two years, Nigeria’s Sunday Igboho earlier this month finally secured his freedom from Benin Republic. He did not return to Nigeria. He jetted out to …

Nigeria has a national anti-corruption strategy which is currently being implemented, and states like Kano have already keyed into it. Nigeria is implementing its 3rd national action plan as part …

Part 1 here Perceived callousness in society comes, chiefly, from the responses of the government to public issues as they affect individuals and the collective. As a country and society, …

Governor Biodun Abayomi Oyebanji of Ekiti State is privileged to have inherited a stable platform. Were it to have been otherwise, one doubts if he would by now have finished …

Very recently during a town hall meeting, we listened in awe as an Edo government official did his best to explain the concept of ‘interest’ with the procurement processes of …

Nigeria has reduced itself to the butt of the crudest jokes all over the world. Forgery at the highest echelon of power in the land has put a bad patch …

Temitope Oladipo Fayehun must be passing through hard times. A native of Ilesa in Osun State, Fayehun’s ordeal started on March 2, 2021, when he, alongside others in his vehicle, …