Nigeria Matters

The greatest threat youth face today is exclusion and marginalization from decisions that affect them. Unemployment, crime, HIV/AIDS, neglect by the authorities, abandonment to their fate because of various forms …

All governments at all levels do have duties and responsibilities to their citizens. But this is not a one way street. There are two sides or even multiplicities of sides …

Over the years, Nigeria had acted as if achieving the Millennium Development Goals was solely the responsibility of the Federal Government through an instrumentality that barely possesses the required capacity…

The advancement of Nigeria and the success of its government will remain a mere dream unless everyone put the national agenda or interest over personal ones. Are the people who …

A critical examination of America’s foreign policy in the last two decades proves she is concerned with environment issues and with matters dealing with social dislocations, international health challenges and …

Recently, I became aware of the kidnapping, bundling and dumping of Nigerian citizens who are afflicted with one disability or the other, including destitution and abject poverty. Nigerian citizens with …

Often, we all talk about scam as it concerns basically what we have come to term ‘yahoo yahoo’. Only on few occasions do we make reference to the scam that …

With the salacious details of what happened in Ekiti in April 2009, when the shambolic re-run polls happened thumbing in at the state election tribunal headed by Justice , there …

We must be able to say it straightaway that these people resemble carpetbaggers than anything else. And rather than think this is an irresponsible or cheap shot at the honourables, …

Historically, citizens of the Niger Delta have been a thorn on the flesh of pre and post-colonial Nigerian governments. Not a people to suffer injustice in silence, they have a …

I felt a strong urge to step outdoors to espy the night skies, in the fervent, but furtive hope of catching a glimpse – however fleeting – of the ascent …

Conflicts take place all over the world because you and I want to control the things that generate money and wealth. Now, since we cannot have everything we want, and …

For us Nigerians as a people, the time has come for us to realize that anytime we fan the embers of ethnicity and tribalism we easily wind the clock of …

What will those on the EFCC list tell their children when they remember that their children also read newspapers? What will those reckless and selfish politicians who kill directly or …

It seems to me that the majority of Nigerians are prisoners. From the inmates of kiri-kiri, through the millions who have had their rights denied them in one way or …

All Nigerians should answer a few questions in connection with the spate of actions by the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi; are Nigerian Bankers on …