Nigeria Matters

To achieve its stated goal, Boko Haram is willing to bomb public motor parks, to slaughter sleeping school children in their beds, to bring carnage to people worshiping in churches, to ambush and kill soldiers and police officers, to abduct schoolgirls and forcibly convert them to Islam, and to carve out a widening space in Nigeria’s northeast where sheer anarchy reigns...

If you were to review the activities of the Boko Haram, and in spite of the fact that these killers have no clear cut demands apart from  demanding a suspension of the Nigerian constitution, a surrender and transfer of the instruments of power from Mr. President to them, and the closure of schools, two things stand them out as well...

Societies racing to hell usually make pit-stops at irrationality to re-tank their superstitions. They stop not only to caress their indiscretions, but also to refill their pathologies. On their way to oblivion, they loiter around the theatres of infamy. They celebrate feasts off their impunity. At those convocations, they erect funeral pyres to immolate their posterity...

Journalists are often the butt of the most demeaning jokes and premeditated put-downs in the social arena. Nobody thinks much of a journalist; in the eyes of big business and the ruling class, the journalist - whatever his designation or job title - is the manipulable pawn and necessary evil that has to be courted and tolerated...

There is nothing more pathetic than a critical mob; gangs of columnists, journalists, hatchet writers and career critics may stir up strife but their efforts eventually pass like the hum of mosquitoes seeking to make a noise like thunder...

We are sick and tired of politics of you-chop-I-chop and politics of exclusivity. And just like the days of Chief James Otobo, one voice which all Isoko people and all Nigerians can identify with as having fought for egalitarianism and justice and politics of inclusion is none other than that of Ogaga Ifowodo. Esq....

President Goodluck Jonathan, having put in place an effective intelligence and information gathering mechanism, and working collaboratively with Western countries like United State of America, Britain, France and UN to find these girls, is not relenting in his efforts...

Tom Ugo is not his real name. He was 4 years old when his parents were divorced in 2012, because of what they said were their irreconcilable differences. Ugo did not go to school in the preceding year due to the quandaries that the divorce had degenerated into...