Nigeria Matters

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…

Jos was once the best place to stay in Nigeria considering the heavenly weather and blissful peace that once characterized the city. However, bouts of killings, religious unrests and the …

Those handling Goodluck Jonathan better tell him that this week marks the end of the honeymoon phase of his “acting presidency.”

Nigerians can also be blamed for the paucity of information on the health status of those at the helm of affairs. On the various streets across Nigeria, Nigerians go about …

It is mostly in Lagos and other big cities in Nigeria that one can find an able-bodied, well-fed beggar, who can see, hear and speak, is not in anyway physically …