Nigeria Matters

A lot has been written and said about the arrest on drug trafficking charges of popular actor and comedian, Omidina Babatunde popular known as Baba Suwe; but little have been …

What is amiss is the rationale in the long queue of projects Amaechi lined up knowing full well that these countless projects require huge funds to actualize them. Is this …

The nation is about to engage in another worthless ritual of bestowing national honours on a select crop of its citizens, mainly drawn from the government and corporate circle…

Since the United States retaliated against the Japanese Pearl Harbour incident during the Second War, by dropping on Hiroshima and Nagasaki an atomic bomb called, “Little John”, some states started …

Boko Haram claims it is avenging the “extra-judicial” killing of its leader, Muhammed Yusuf, who died at the hands of the Nigerian Police in 2009, during the presidency of the …

‘No, I no go forgive. I be proper Ibo woman. PA said that he wants to be like Jesus so somebody who wants to be like Jesus they look for …

The recent, far-reaching resolution of the Federal Government of Nigeria to urge the Executive Cabinet Ministers in the President Goodluck Jonathan-led Administration to sign performance contracts with the Presidency is …

With Ajimobi, the jury is still out. So far and so early, it appears to be a mixed bag. We have a governor who has embarked on a deliberate effort …

When a people cultivate denial of an event, even a deeply traumatic one, they – at the very least – risk blundering into the same mistakes over and over. Nigeria …

Corruption is good business to the participants and those who profit from it. I am not talking about official government corruption, but also private and public sector, and even the …

‘Hehehehe……heheheh…..who no know go know. So you no know say Abuja they monitor all you diaspora writers who write critical pieces about GEJ and his cabinet? PA is the talk …

Offline and online, I’ve received volumes of messages from friends far and near inquiring about the flood that almost submerged my city and hometown, Ibadan…

Since in a participatory democracy the politician needs the political party more than the political party needs the politician, it would be difficult to imagine a vibrant democracy without competing …

Selfish and corrupt godfathers, inept politicians, military cabals and their cronies have taken control of leadership positions for many years…

Biafra is back in the news in a big way, thanks, in large measure, to the recent death of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple…

Our notes will be incomplete if we do not pause to invite some reflections upon the recently concluded Local Government elections that took place in Lagos, the economic and financial …