Nigeria Matters

How can this country come back to the part of honour when even the president has an eye for violence? It is saddening that the president threatened the nation he …

Speeding is one of the common offenses under road traffic law that have to be taken with seriousness as many people lose their lives each year due to careless speeding…

Each time I spear the time to watch the amount of time our leaders spend celebrating themselves rather than celebrating ideas that should solve our problems and lift us up, …

A situation where you see police officers used as private escort for wealthy individuals including expatriates is befuddling. The hustling mentality, the lack of self-esteem by officers and rank, including …

I guess for most folks, the first hint of President Jonathan’s Murtallabian tendency was the utterly inept manner he allowed the last presidential election to be unnecessarily and gauchely rigged …

President Goodluck Jonathan, who is leading the charge to deepen Nigeria’s poverty index by removing the so-called fuel subsidy, appears bent on playing a Clinton. He is anxious to sell …

Described as belated in certain quarters, Nigeria’s 2012 Budget proposal and the continual pervasive disputation over the touchy fuel subsidy issue and sectoral budgetary allocations in the Appropriation Bill, especially …

Despite the poor research and innovation capability of our present set of universities, incessant strike will continue to jeopardize the little research they are undertaking…

In view of the penchant of most people in elective offices and sensitive positions in our public offices to amass wealth and the huge amounts of money usually involved in …

For decades now, Nigeria as a sovereign nation has been battling with the disturbing issue of phantom names on Government personnel payroll and in pensions audit results…

Corruption in Nigeria has become so widespread with its depleting effect on the economic development of the country that insistence on legalism in the war against it may at times …

After listening to Mr. President’s budget speech, I couldn’t control my happiness because it was as if the President had just read my mind. Here are some of the things …

Good governance is good. It is only achieved when a leader makes up his mind with good intentions to lead. The people will be beneficiaries. They will always wish such …

What is happening in Rivers State in terms of development is wonderful. When you go around some of the work sites, what you see is the hand of Satan is …

The Abia State Government recently said that its tribal work policy was not intended for Rivers State indigenes. This was after it banned the civil servants who are not from …

With the unsettling, rife social tensions resulting from biting poverty, youth unemployment, hunger, inflation, power failure, insecurity of lives and property and social dislocations across the land, the Federal Government …