Nigeria Matters

Last Saturday, voters in Anambra State came out in impressive numbers to elect a governor. The stakes were extremely high, and the obstacles formidable, but the people of Anambra did …

Power is everything. Without it, we revert to living like the Neolithic and the Neanderthal, stone age people who eked a living hitting rocks against each other to produce weak …

Damn our “leaders” if they like it, damn them if they don’t. The people have spoken. Enough of power vacuum, near constitutional crisis and over heating of the polity all …

For weeks now, the Nigerian media has been agog with vexatious outburst by some of those who brought Nigeria to where we are. Political malcontents of all hues and colours …

Though Oshiomhole impressed many people as President of the Nigerian Labour Congress, history teaches us that some of the most famous labour leaders of the past few decades failed woefully …

One calls the other the Logistician while the other calls his friend, the Actualizer. They are friends and have worked together. Between them lies the most mobile, progressive and solid …

In an age where people are soulfully clamoring for good governance, accountability and constitutionalism, military coup d’etat may not be the solution to the countless ills that have become institutionalized …

Many of us following the argument that a comatose Umaru Yar’Adua is fit to run Nigeria must have a sense of déjà vu. Nigeria is not the only country that …

In his mental universe, it appears Obasanjo sees himself as the nation’s pre-eminent statesman. But for such a mental outlook to have any basis in reality, one of such status …

President Yar’Adua has engaged in gross misconduct and impeachable offense of the most egregious type and nature. President Yar’Adua has embarrassed and shamed the Nigerian nation long enough…

One is saddened by the current constitutional impasse occasioned by the lingering ill-health of President Yar’adua and the spiralling effects of this on the entrenchment of good governance and the …

Nigerians should closely watch what will happen in the Anambra election on February 6. Whatever happens in Anambra will further confirm what Nigerians will face in 2011 general election…

Anambra State needs and deserves a governor and leadership that will transform the wasteland of poverty, ignorance and corruption into a stable and fulfilling society…

If there was ever any cincher that social conditioning, apathy and adaptation have sealed our faith, it is in our inclination towards jurisdiction. It is as predictable as our society …

There has been no military coup in Nigeria for over 16 years. That is the longest period of time in Nigeria’s history without a military coup. But some troubling noises …

For many Lagosians, riding daily on okada is an unavoidable part of their daily routine as only the ‘kings of the road’ have the daredevil DNA to waltz, dash, slide, …