Nigeria Matters

In the history of contemporary Nigeria, except for the Nigerian Customs Service, I wonder if there ever has been a government agency as reviled and ridiculed as the Nigerian Police …

Fayemi’s long wait for what belongs to him will soon be over, if the proceedings from the Ekiti tribunal is to be taken into consideration…

By now many of those with their ears to the ground will have heard this song: Divide Nigeria in two, according to religious lines. This statement was Mr Gaddafi’s recent …

From the depth of my heart and with sincere tears dropping and flowing down my eyes and into my mouth with its salty taste, I condemn all previous ethnic massacres…

It’s been said that it takes a drug to cure a disease, it takes failure to appreciate success, and as shown recently, it takes an ailing president, overambitious first lady …

One thing I know is that if we were in the same condition and have wives who truly loved us, wives or daughters whom we have given love, wealth and …

Haiti and Chile are still reeling from the aftermath of devastating earthquakes, a natural disaster. Nigeria continues to be beset by man-manufactured crises and disasters…

Removing the National Security Adviser is not enough. Heads of other relevant security agencies should also be sacked. Another reason to sack other security chiefs is the way and manner …

Nigeria really should lack nothing, what with 150 million citizens at home and abroad. It is time for us to put our distractions aside and get to work for Nigeria…

The proposed political behemoth aptly named Mega Party of Nigeria; an attempt by political strange bed fellows to wrestle power from the vice-like grip of the People’s Democratic Party, can …

Serious nations learn from their mistakes and cultivate their democracy, always looking for ways to improve. In Nigeria, we have continuously refused to learn. The issue is the country’s leadership …

Goodluck Jonathan can be likened to a man facing a dilemma: If he acts too fast, he risks committing egregious mistakes in which case his opponents and bashers will pounce …

The present carnage in Jos is certainly a harbinger of things to come in the future. I might sound like a doomsday prophet…

Experts and ordinary Nigerians worry about how their foods and medicines are being packed by food processors…

Sadly, the set of Nigerian politician children who think of themselves as political dynasties and indispensable to the Nigerian political scene…

Political, religious and ethnic opportunists have always exploited the mutual suspicions between Nigerians who are in abject poverty…