Nigeria Matters

The Babangida brand belongs in the ilk of Africa’s better forgotten peonage to domestic tyrants and internal colonizers. Why defile the Obama week by evoking one of the terrible names …

A couple of weeks ago, you raised alarm over the request by certain persons in the state who wanted you to share the common wealth with them. Presumably, these were, …

A couple of weeks ago, you raised alarm over the request by certain persons in the state who wanted you to share the common wealth with them. Presumably, these were, …

The fight against corruption is not an easy fight, as I have observed and noted during my travel to Nigeria and interaction with the main players of the fight. The …

I write as a Nigerian who has observed with dismay how we have inadvertently allowed music as a form of art to undermine the fight against Advance Fee Fraud in …

Kingsley is a bookworm. The rows of books on my shelf astounded and overawed his inquisitiveness. Then his eyes brightened and his usual boom-boom voice came alive. Then in a …

There are still honorable and truthful Nigerians whose inner configurations are knitted with truth and their hearts are ruled by a sense of justice and fairness…

Mr. Conscience, you are allowing yourself to be used by those foolish diasporic Nigerians who are writing me open letters. They more than deserve the spanking they got from Pat …

Nigeria is yet to develop a vibrant housing and mortgage market, social and affordable housing policies, and housing continues to be provided through tortuous traditional methods of buying land and …

We all complain about Nigeria but the truth of the matter is that you and I make up the people of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Our lackadaisical individual lives …

Mr. Dimeji Bankole, the speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives has finally conceded to a probe, over the car purchase contract scandal rocking the lower house at the moment…

Nigerians are the worst of dysfunctional optimists in the world. But shock awaits their timidity. Umaru Musa Yar Adua will never lead Nigeria anywhere. He is grossly ill equipped for …

There are legitimate questions to ask about Fashola’s road to office. It is a photocopy of Yar’Adua’s route to Aso Rock: the route of brazen, nepotistic, and muscular godfatherism…

Some Nigerians who are seemingly unqualified to drive but who obtain driving licenses indiscriminately contribute to the rise in motor accidents as well as swell the ranks of those who …

What will you do for Nigeria? In ten years time what will people say about you in Nigeria? What will the growing generation of Nigerian’s write about you?

From what we are seeing, the Federal Government is not behaving as if it is aware that a devastating tragedy is lurking at the corner, waiting to strike…