Nigeria Matters

Very early in IBB’s time as military president of the country, former Newswatch Editor-in-chief Dele Giwa was assassinated through a letter bomb. There were many pointers to the fact that …

In this last battle of his life, Ciroma cuts the image of an old republican ‘rebel’ with little choices and without much energy or strength – doing the bidding of …

Babangida’s vainglorious doings, self-promotion, dark charisma, magnanimity, generosity and even democratic credentials met a huge collision in June 12 annulment of Chief MKO Abiola’s presidential victory and the assassination of …

When on Monday, September 20, 2010, we confirmed the gruesome murder of Dr. Stanley Uche, the proprietor of the very popular Victory Christian Hospital, Aba, Abia State, by heartless kidnappers, …

Last Saturday, I was listening to a radio programme on BCOS Ibadan. Towards the tail end of the live radio show, a listener called in, calling on rescue workers to …

Last week was simply terrible for former Governor James Onanefe Ibori and his wife, Theresa Nkoyo Ibori. In a London court, an enterprising, no-nonsense Crown prosecutor put Mrs. Ibori through …

It is very sad that some public office holders in Nigeria can do anything to stay in office. This is what we have observed the Bayelsa State Commissioner for Information …

Alhaji Mujihad Dokubo-Asari is at it again! He has been making comments that are capable of upturning the fragile peace and stability that exist not only in Rivers State, but …

But we are going to pay Gowon, Shagari, Obasanjo, Babangida, Buhari, Abdulsalaam, and even Shonekan and their families, awesome pensions for life. And what about the families of Tafawa-Balewa, Aguiyi-Ironsi, …

The truth is that when someone stole an election and benefited from its fruits without any sanctions extended to him after he was caught, others are encouraged and emboldened to …

The event that saw to the emergence of Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo as the Peoples Democratic Party’s national chairman was a two-horse race between him and the former National Vice Chairman, …

I wonder why we need to be policed all the time, why voluntary compliance is so lacking. Self-discipline has been thrown out the window, and we need the brutal arms …

Incidences of fire on our markets, are becoming a threat to the nation’s economic growth/development. Physical markets in Nigeria are perhaps the largest employers of labour in the private sector…

What an interesting irony it is that the enduring memory indented upon the national consciousness, following the curious decision to celebrate the nation’s half-century of existence as an under-performing post-colonial …

I suspect that most Nigerians are almost exclusively riveted by the unfolding drama of who’s going to emerge president, by hook or crook, in next year’s election…

The effort to transform Nigeria can only be meaningful if competence and character are not sacrificed on the altar of federal character, says the National Transformation Party…