Nigeria Matters

Many foreigners with close ties to Nigeria often wonder how Nigerians manage to take life easy even in a myriad of poor infrastructure and bad leadership…

Last night 33 Nigerian miners were trapped underground and the government decided to send a Nigerian capsule down to rescue them one after the other…

President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s demeanour is somewhat less presidential than should be expected. He has achieved greatness by providential streak of goodluck which is rare in the African political history, …

Let’s look at what 50 years of uninterrupted rule by men has brought Nigeria: civil war, one million dead bodies in the space of 3 years, systematized corruption, destruction of …

The recent blocking of a planned meeting of the Igbo Political Forum (IPF), which was to take place at the Banquet Hall of Hotel Concorde, Owerri, on Monday September 27, …

While the nation was still enthralled by the gory details of security inertia and paralysis occasioned by the state of lawlessness in Abia state, Nigerians were again woken to another …

For the umpteenth time, the good people of Ekiti State await the judiciary to give them desired justice in the electoral disputation over the 2007 governorship election…

When a community is tagged underdeveloped, it is the human beings who populate such community that are being described. It is against this background that it becomes imperative to sit …

If anybody needed some dire sign that Nigeria has little to show for the first fifty years of its life, a particularly disturbing and bloody one was given last Friday…

Officially, three of us – Balewa, Zik and me – were invited a few months ago to grace this golden occasion of our great nation, but we decided not to …

Officially, three of us – Balewa, Zik and me – were invited a few months ago to grace this golden occasion of our great nation, but we decided not to …

I do feel like dragging a few things out of my diary to highlight why I, and of course, millions of Nigerians have continued to agonize as our weary beloved …

We seem to have defiled all political permutations and theories. 2011 election will not only mark our water shed but also will be an interesting political manoeuvre and battle of …

If Jonathan eventually clinches the PDP nomination – which we should pray for, but eventually loses the 2011 elections to a Northerner from the opposition parties, neither Jonathan nor any …

If Jonathan eventually clinches the PDP nomination – which we should pray for, but eventually loses the 2011 elections to a Northerner from the opposition parties, neither Jonathan nor any …

This is our golden opportunity to re-write Nigeria’s history by coming together with one voice to elect good leaders to lead us to a new Nigeria…