Nigeria Matters

What is Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) up to? Why allow itself to be hijacked, and lately so? Is this to give Atiku Abubarkar some relevance after his atrocious and loutish …

Save for some exceptions here and there, the recently concluded primaries have been far from transparent and democratic. To get the much needed good governance, Nigerians need to pay more …

Governance in Nigeria has been dysfunctional for decades. In my wanderings through life, I have found that most people are troubled by the current state of politics in Nigeria, but …

How can you say they are not performing, when heavy duty trucks come in to cart away the broken tar to sand-fill some godfather plots in Lekki? You should see …

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan clearly went out-of-line with his utterances. While his camp might do damage control by claiming that he was quoted out of context, had a slip of …

In Nigeria, history has consistently shown that the people who cast the votes decide nothing; it is those who count, that is, rig, the votes that decide everything. This is …

Without much emphasis, it is in the news that King TJT Princewill is the first Professor to be anointed a King in Rivers State and also the first Kalabari King …

The people of Nigeria are pinning their hopes that their plight and wishes are addressed by the next government regardless of the ethnicity-trend…

Rather than mouth the Happy New Year greeting like I used to at the beginning of each year, I’d rather keep my mouth shut.  And pray and hope harder. Pray …

Look at the predicament of the Nigerian-American columnist and professor who came home recently. The security people seized both his passports and asked him to report for an interrogation. When …

Nigerians are electing new leaders this year (2011). Therefore, it makes sense that all eligible adults should participate and get involved with the electoral processes. Make sure you vote and …

Whether INEC was made by way of carrot or just conned to blast us with the recent make-belief Delta rerun election result is still debatable? What is, however, not debatable …

For me, the bombs that were flying around, the killings that wore the hood of religion, and the kidnappings that resonated across the land, were all symptomatic of the disease …

In order to confront the economic downturn, the whole world has resorted to expansionary monetary policy, reducing interest rates to historical low in order to jumpstart the economy, enhance financial …

There is much evident psychology behind the rigging of the last Delta rerun elections. So palpable almost everybody in Delta state and Nigeria, and very lately much of the rest …

The stunning revelation that the Independent National Electoral Commission lacks a central server that will be able to detect incidences of multiple registrations in the ongoing voter registration should worry …