Nigeria Matters

Nigeria is actively undergoing electioneering campaigns for a general election scheduled for April 2011. This general election season has turned out to be an open season of attacks, bigotries, prejudices …

Maybe I’m the alien with foreign thoughts, together with the rest who are talking gibberish, speaking in tongues and recommending foreign ideas such as civility, answerability, anabasis, enrichment and augmentation…

I have just read about the desperately sad, and extremely dire plight of a fellow Nigerian citizen. Her name is Emilia George and she was featured in a story on …

But wait till you hear what others have to say about Babatunde Fashola as Lagos Governor. For a prominent Nigerian musician who does not want his name mentioned, Fashola is …

Democracy does not begin and end on election day. Democracy is not periodic-episodic action. Democracy and elections have consequences. Democracy in Nigeria must not mean motion without movement…

It is horrifying that some 73 percent of street children in the city are subjected to abuse and suffer from chronic malnutrition. Mortality and morbidity status among the street dwellers …

The ruling party, in an election year, chose to insult the sensibilities of Nigerians. Live on television was a thanksgiving service for a convicted thief, Bode George, who was driven …

Bode George, ex-military man and ex-chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority, left Kirikiri prison last Saturday – having served a two-year sentence for corruption and earned the addition of ex-convict …

Kwara proclaims itself a “State of Harmony”, well, one thing for sure, the Sarakis have harmonised all the resources and even the people of the state so much that I …

With Wike, there is no how anybody loyal to Omehia or Odili can outrun Amaechi in the 2011 elections in Rivers State, as they concern grassroots campaign and mobilisation of …

I know you know that the prosperity of your fellow Nigerians, though hard fought, is less fulfilling knowing there is so much more that can be done to alleviate poverty …

Over the last few months, both the print and electronic media have been going on and on about the forthcoming general elections. This is a good development because the next …

In democracy, the way we communicate matters a lot and a leader will have to influence a lot of people. As a rational citizen, we need to watch out for …

There are uncountable royal highnesses, high chiefs, double chiefs, triple chiefs, etcetera, in our localities.  ‘Chieftancy title’ may well be a Nigerian phrase. There may be more Rotarians, Lions, ‘Sirs’ …

Jega is manifesting incompetence. He collected about N90b for the conduct of the 2011 elections. Next he asked for N6b for a one-week extension of the voter’s registration…

What story would I be telling to draw attention to the roads taking forever to construct in ‘Abuja’? Hmmm, let me think. Yes, I will tell two, no three…