Nigeria Matters

The messages emanating from Nigeria appear mixed. On one hand, we are witnessing some positive news and on another hand, we are confronted with some serious and dangerous trends in …

Given what governors have done in their respective states across the country, it has become apparent that what matters is not really how wealthy a state or by extension a …

In a sense, the debate over the minimum wage for Nigerian workers raises a more fundamental question: What’s a Nigerian worth? And since there are different kinds of Nigerians, one …

Boko Haram, MEND, bombings, kidnappings, political schemings and all, can only but last a moment. Battered though Nigeria might be by all your efforts…

That I frequently hear Nigerians, educated and exposed, make illogical excuses for Nigeria is unexplainable. This weird idea of rebuffing anybody who dares to ask why Nigeria, in spite of …

Majority of the Rivers masses are today laughing at people like Ige, who saw the Ikoku spare parts market as the only place where poor sanitary condition was in Port …

NTA is an open wound that hurts millions of Nigerians within and beyond the shores of Nigeria and it needs urgent healing; there is no other way of saying it, …

Emordi is like a student expelled from a school for worst of crimes, and who we all would agree without question cannot, in the very next breath, be contracted by …

President Goodluck Jonathan’s invocation of curses on his appointed ministers may look like falling into our primordial and juju heritage, but the action has proved a sound point. “May your …

In the grammar of Nigerian politics, things are easier said than done. The declaration by this administration that it proposes to transform Nigeria tacitly implies that past Nigerian governments had …

Recently, Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State, while inducting 18 commissioners that will help him man the affairs of the state, charged them to submit their blueprint within 14 …

Reading Mr Campbell’s essay, you can’t help but sympathise with Mr. Segun Aganga, Nigeria’s new Minister of Trade and Investment as his job has just been made much more challenging …

We started down this ignoble, cowardly course by negotiating with the criminals that hijacked the legitimate cause of the Niger-Delta people by blowing up oil infrastructure, blackmailing, kidnapping, raping, maiming, …

One knows that Amaechi was telling his rather ugly tales to prove a point that his early life was not rosy and cozy and that today his life has changed …

I wonder how long we are going to continue this disunity. Many lives are lost as a result of our inability to become united as one people, yet we still …

Until a fatal combination of cirrhosis of the liver and excess Viagra did the lunatic Abacha in, between November 1993 and June 1998 everyone knew their place in Nigeria.  All …