Nigeria Matters

Like most ardent Nigerian political observers, I also found myself glued to my television set on the 13th January, 2011 in order to catch the glimpse of the long awaited …

The game is up for all inept and dubious politicians . Now is the time for bad-belle, do-or-die  politicians to look for another job. It is time for all political …

For Goodluck not only to defeat Atiku in Adamawa – Atiku home state – but that with an overwhelming and almost unbelievable margin speaks volume of Atiku’s experience in misgovernance, …

Enough is enough. Our elders cannot be enemies forever as we do not want them to pass this to their sons. It is much better to make way for the …

I hereby challenge the sexual predators in the Delta State capital to debunk the veracity of these abominable sexual escapades of theirs and I will not hesitate to publish more …

Bombs first became instruments of assassination in Nigeria on October 19, 1986. The target then was Dele Giwa, a journalist. According to available records, forty eight hours before, the SSS …

Prolonged Military Dictatorship stunted Nigeria’s democratic growth and its socio-economic development. Dictators created and fostered a culture of impunity in the entire executive and judicial arms of government. They abrogated …

We concede that there is need for urgent reform activity to restore the waning public confidence in the administration of justice as well as address new vistas of challenges, change …

Nigeria has three major problems troubling her at the moment: Police, PHCN and PDP. Is it a coincidence that these entities start with the letter “P”? I doubt it…

Attahiru Jega is not the angel many thought he was. Rather than light, we have just seen darkness. The process that led to the Delta State rerun election and the …

The Nigerian democratic experiment is in its eleventh year and appears to be surviving in spite of its inadequacies. One may be tempted to call this “quantitative assessment”. I have …

My prior experience with the SSS predicted a termination of my self-imposed literary intermission. Not for the sake of furlough for furlough’s sake though. These political days make the graduation …

Nigeria needs rebranding, no doubt. Indeed it is long overdue. And this was why many of us seemed to have jumped at the choice of Dora and consoled ourselves because …

Around the 27th of December 2010, the news media reported the promise by President Goodluck Jonathan to send a Bill to the National Assembly for the purpose of enshrining in …

Chief Ogboru was alleged to be the civilian who bank-rolled the military operation and when the effort failed spectacularly he beat a quick escape using the famous ‘NADECO route’ like …

Obasanjo and Atiku ruined the most prosperous years of our nationhood. They knew NOTHING about governance but MUCH about misgovernance. They squandered what a man like Obafemi Awolowo would have …