Nigeria Matters

The failed attempt by Umaru Farouk Abdul Mutallab to bomb United Airlines flight 253 out of the air and the aftermath have managed to reminde those who pretend to be …

Many Nigerians cannot forget fearless journalists like Dele Giwa who constantly asked pertinent questions in his articles, and several others, past and present, that are scattered across our media houses. …

If  most of us want  Nigeria to be one, then there is a need for the people of the Middle Belt to be ready to take a strong, firm, and  …

It took just one foiled attempt by a British resident, and Yemeni trained terrorist to give the United States Transportation Security Administration the unique opportunity to show her true feelings …

While Yaradua’s prolonged illness and lack of formal transfer of power to the Vice President may have brought us to the throes of a constitutional crisis, the situation more importantly …

The United States, Indian and Israeli top security agencies have now been fingered as conspirators in the Christmas day attempt by Umar Faruok AbdulMutallab to detonate chemical explosives aboard Delta …

In a few days, we would know if the United States government will bow to the moratorium by the senate for it to de-list Nigeria as a terrorist nation or …

Come to think of it: who is afraid of Goodluck Jonathan? Who is afraid of the Vice President acting as or becoming the President of Nigeria? Who? Why?

It’s safe to say that Nigerians have never had it quite as bleak as under the Yar’Adua dispensation. Until now, we’ve had a succession of rotten rulers, but never one …

Nigerians seem to have a two-tier belief system. On the one hand they believe in God/Allah, and attend church/mosque. Yet they still believe in the power of non-Biblical or Koranic …

Change will come when we know true democracy and keep ourselves informed. We have to encourage our families, friends and neighbours to populate the educated camp till the ignorant camp …

Change will come when we know true democracy and keep ourselves informed. We have to encourage our families, friends and neighbours to populate the educated camp till the ignorant camp …

The image of a nation might as well be the destiny of a nation. Nigeria’s disfigured image in the global village has become an insignia of dishonesty, dishonor and disrespect; …

Everything is grounded in the country for now…the usual rituals of fuel scarcity at Xmas…Umoru is lying down half dead in a Saudi hospital and the country too lying comatose …

If there is a bit of the hypocrite in all of us, then our hypocrisy is often at its highest when discussing public officials, especially politicians, in the context of …

Mr. President, though we acknowledge our frailties as mortals, we have never ceased to ask why you allowed yourself to be goaded into taking this job in the first place. …