Nigeria Matters

The rumour mill was agog earlier this week with the presumed assassination of the ’emperor’ in Ota, former President Olusegun Obasanjo. Obasanjo was quick to dispel the rumour proclaiming in …

The essentiality of this letter to you is on the arrest of the members of Sekibo’s faction of the PDP in our state who were labelled “thugs” by the Secretary …

It is part of the Nigerian condition that our yesterday has a way of being better than our today. Otherwise who will ever think that in less than two months …

The death of President Umaru Yar’Adua was a painful one to many Nigerians due to the circumstances that led to his death, but Nigerians should be prayerful…

I will like to say that sometimes, valuable things don’t come from the rich and influential people but from unknown persons in the dark and forgotten corners of the world…

As conflict management consultant, and strategic security analyst, I have been predisposed to more raw material evidence than any security agent in Nigeria…

Once again, Nigerians are caught in the trap of asking, and seeking to answer, the wrong question. This time, the question has to do with Goodluck Jonathan: Should he, or …

Economically, the Niger Delta region is doomed with resources under-allocation…

If someone were to ask what the most crippling problem of Nigeria is, we will not have a moment’s hesitation in deciding that it is infidelity and irresponsibility to the …

Is it known by other Nigerians that Igbo society is a matriarchy? The men may not subscribe to that. But, are they not trying to prove it to the world?

This write-up proposes to look at the recent changes in the public administration in Britain and offer some comments on and assessment of the Nigeria scenario…

As Nwodo has publicly declared his intention to lay down his precious life so that Nigerians can enjoy the dividends of democracy that has eluded us ever since the PDP …

The Niger Delta region is faced with a lot of developmental and environmental challenges including high level of poverty, decline in agricultural production, low level of industrial activities, environmental degradation …

The governors of the five South-Eastern states, with prominent leaders of thought from the region in tow, cut a pitiable look when they went cap-in-hand to meet with “Big Brother …

The Niger Delta crisis is essentially a governance of crisis, for almost six decades the Ijaw – amongst other ethnic groups in the region – have mobilized within to seek …

Amazing how the issue of zoning or not produced gra gra and brouhaha and even exposed our democracy to a far more savage form of political, cabal and social polarization …