Nigeria Matters

Truth, when trying to define it, extends from honesty, reality, good faith, and sincerity in general, to agreement with fact or reality in particular. The term has no single definition …

Considering the depths to which the institution of government in Nigeria has sunk and the reputational damage suffered as a consequence of its descent, it does seem strange that our …

Last week’s call by President Umar Musa Yar’Adua on the National Assembly to expunge the irredeemably iniquitous Immunity Clause from the Nigerian Constitution, most surely, ranked, in my opinion, as …

Deceptive leaders like Mimiko will always believe that their private imperfections or inadequacies won’t have public consequences, but they always do…

The Judiciary as headed by the Supreme Court ought to have nullified or cancelled the elections of 2007, which everyone but everyone had termed patently flawed for non-compliance with the …

More than three quarters of Nigerians who sleep outside daily have found themselves in that condition from a variety of factors, but mostly because the government seemingly has no place in …

If 5 years have gone by and corrupt cops are no longer demanding N20 but N200, has the value of a Nigerian’s life increased or what?

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998…

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998…

Yeah, yeah, yeah…I know it is stale news but I am sure that many people missed the “blow-by-blow” account of how M.K.O. Abiola died in 1998…

The Nigerian judiciary has never acted on its powers to declare any presidential or executive action unconstitutional since the President appoints federal judges…

No nation can thrive in violence, war or famine likewise no citizen can live with his two eyes closed during violence, war or famine…

A Northern Nigerian does not need to physically “serve” in Southern Nigeria or vice-versa to truly be able to demonstrate what he or she can contribute meaningfully in service to …

In choosing to retain the status quo, by keeping in office a president, albeit one devoid of the public acclaim of the Nigerian people, the Supreme Court appears to have …

Poverty is still a growing problem in Nigeria – a country which is estimated to have earned about $280bn from oil during the past 30 years…

Though the issue of unemployment in not peculiar to Nigeria alone. It is a universal problem but the Nigerian government has not taken the necessary steps to arrest this situation…