Nigeria Matters

We just want to bring to your attention something much worse than the Lagos-Shagamu-Ore-Benin road or the Serengeti. You won’t believe it but the place I am talking about is …

A government that entertains directives, unsolicited advice from foreign governments and individuals creates the impression that it is weak and compromising. Nigerians do not go out of their way to …

Majority of Nigerians, at home and abroad, are agreed that our motherland is terribly ‘sick’! Yes, she is suffering from what one could call ‘statehood tumor’, an ailing condition that …

With his endorsement by the Northern political elite to contest for the ticket of the party for the 2011 election, Atiku has bounced back from political wilderness and the coming …

Nigerians are working to avert a repetition of the June 12, 2003 incidence at the forthcoming 2011 general elections…

Indeed the natives liked the name Nigeria, just as Dame Flora Shaw, bless her soul, rightly predicted.  Even the current wife of the president shares the same title “Dame” with …

If a government performance were to be measured by the performance of its head at a public forum consisting of citizens of the state and country at large, then Governor …

Two decade ago, it was unthinkable to millions of Nigerians that Mr. Goodluck Jonathan, a canoe-maker’s son, would one day become their president. Today, this veritable politician who easily represents …

Adamu has been riding rough-shod over Nigeria’s sport for almost 20 years. He was Director General of the Nigerian National Sports Commission for ten years before being redeployed in November …

In today’s international system, the concept of national character is one of the definitive, critical criteria being applied in according a nation-state such as Nigeria, due respect. More so, the …

Any concerned Nigerian, old or comparatively young, who was perhaps familiar with how the age-long, good societal value system of honesty, integrity, decency, hard work, communal living and good neighbourliness …

Whether the man that attacked Obasanjo was insane or sane is not the issue. The real issue here is why a ‘mad’ man should consider it expedient throwing blows at …

Governor Obi is ‘Unsere eigenen Mann’ which means in Igbo language ‘Onyeka yi’ because he respects and honors the people of his state. Obi is truly a son of the …

The news running on the front burner in recent weeks is that the newly inaugurated government of Ekiti State has dissolved all the local councils in the state presumably manned …

A documentary I saw recently by Africa Independent Television, AIT, had Raymond Dokpesi threatening everyone that if his man did not win, there was going to be a coup. Others …

Very often, the impunity and impertinence with which very serious state matters are addressed in Nigeria, suggest that the political parties are not oblivious of how much they affront the …