Nigeria Matters

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars …

Armed militancy may have won us some concessions from the central government, but when everywhere we look, our villages and towns have turned into ghost towns, our people carry scars …

African peoples have long relied on oral accounts to learn about their past.  But the down side of this tradition remains its vulnerability to embellishment. The absence of written records, …

Political party or leadership without a guiding philosophy or ideology is like a pilot without navigator. Any flight attempt will inevitably result in calamity and peril…

At the aftermath of the unprovoked attack on Ijaw communities in Gbaramatu kingdom of Warri South West Local Government Area of Delta State the Ijaw nation wishes to state with …

The current uniform local government system and the resulting chaos it has generated in states within our federal union is a poster child for legislative mess gone haywire…

It makes eminent sense and good logic that Nigerians would want to defend, protect and preserve Nigeria. Nigeria’s national and international image and pride of place on the world stage …

It is time to view Nigeria as it really is. Far from demonstrating any robust gains from our democracy, we have, on the contrary, reaped broken hope, stalled vision, economic …

For residents of some Lekki Phase 1 streets, it is sorrow all the way as the roads become impassable…

Because it’s in our statute book, the various state and local governments use the quota system in their various appointments. Merit, experience and hard work do not matter if quota …

The whole scenario called Nigeria presents one with a nightmare, a long one without any discernable way forward.  Sometimes the ‘project’ Nigeria, apologies to Prof Dora Akunyili, is comparable to …

The criminalization of politics has inevitably led to the politicization of crime. Of course, electoral politics is not the sole reason for the criminalization of politics…

In the wake of a spate of collapsed building in Lagos in recent times, Nigerians have resorted to using foreign builders mostly from the West African sub-region…

I am thinking that we should re-name the Lagos – Benin expressway ‘The Devil’s Highway’ due to the state of the road and incessant armed robbery attacks on the road…

Christian religious leaders in Bauchi who were in the thick of the action when the mayhem of February 22 lasted insist that the riots are the handiwork of terrorists in …

Nearing 50 years after independence, Nigeria has not reached far in the intellectual world of books. How much can we truly claim to be our own and not a pale …