Nigeria Matters

James Ibori is the quintessential raw material for a thriller writer. He is the value-neutral, graft-drunk dude from rogue to riches and because he could swing backwards, he is also …

Where does one begin? That this governor does not harass us the citizens with daily wail of sirens like his thirty-five other counterparts cannot wait to do? That this governor …

It may at this point be categorically stated, that, the factors which orchestrated the cancelation of the June 12 elections, our immediate reaction and how the post-June challenges were taken …

It is striking that while the US government, knowing “just how precious the Louisiana wetlands are”, have been firing on all cylinders to cause the BP to pay for a …

Why is it that our contemporaries are well ahead of us in all indices of development? Are we really making progress in Nigeria? Why has development eluded us? What did …

Will the concept of Omoluwabi erase the plethora of disturbing hubris that has continued to paralyse Yoruba’s competing edge, egalitarian spirit and progressive tradition?

When will Nigerian big men stop assaulting our intelligence? When will they stop defiling our land, our daughters and beating up our sisters?

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa…

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa…

Under the vicious, heartless and pernicious, inhuman, political and economic systems of Apartheid, there could not have been a World Cup competition in South Africa…

Nobody in the recent political history of Nigeria since the re-introduction of democratic governance has given of himself single-handedly to the fight against the institutions of corruption and instruments of …

The Americans and British, through their cabals in Nigeria, have chosen our presidents for us since 1960. The United States in particular through its secret service, the C.I.A., with annual …

The Americans and British, through their cabals in Nigeria, have chosen our presidents for us since 1960. The United States in particular through its secret service, the C.I.A., with annual …

Since last week when the House of Representatives announced its intention to go ahead with the creation of more states, agitations and underground consultations had started among potential beneficiaries of …

Last week, a twelve-person jury at the Southwark Crown Court in London convicted two Nigerian women on charges of facilitating extensive money laundering activities by former Governor James Onanefe Ibori …

A state of emergency is not a solution, politically or constitutionally, to the problems of Bayelsa state. The ultimate solutions lay in political rearrangements, common sense and tolerance…