Nigeria Matters

What happened to Nigeria? Simple. It’s been run by thieves and morons for decades and ignorant Nigerians keep on electing them…

The Nigeria anti-corruption watchdog, the EFCC, is running off-track towards useless but controversial case-hunt, running from pillar to post just to witch-hunt, kill and tarnish the opposition’s political careers…

For a nation as terribly sick as Nigeria is, when exactly would its healing and reclamation commence? When would men with vision, mission, skill and verve come on board to …

Does my country love me? Does my fatherland appreciate and reciprocate the patriotism and loyalty I have displayed over the past couple of decades of my existence?

For those who think I have an ax to grind with the Ibru Family, well, let me say here and now that nothing can be farther from the truth. A …

Where two or three or more Nigerians are gathered together in the name of Nigeria, one can be certain, that right there, in the midst of them, is an impassioned …

Do the dirty looking barracks leave any impression or affect the psyche of the Nigerian Police? Is this dirty feature just one that occurs in the city of Lagos or …

I see in the many government actions or inactions rarely any capacity for straightforwardness, directness or transparency.  For it appears it is congenitally incapable of being frank, clear or assertive…

Since the re-introduction of democracy in Nigeria, the Federal Government of Nigeria has repeatedly promised to reform the justice system to avoid overcrowding in the prisons and accelerate the pace …

If a trader has to bribe his way through clearing goods and is unsure of overhead costs from one shipment to another, then how on earth is he going to …

If a trader has to bribe his way through clearing goods and is unsure of overhead costs from one shipment to another, then how on earth is he going to …

Nigeria is not poor because we lack natural resources or because nature was cruel to us. We are poor because we lack the correct attitude…

Apart from armed robbers – and perhaps kidnappers – it seems that the only other class of people feared so much by most Nigerians are the Police…

Once, shortly after our independence from Great Britain, the whole world believed, and were never in doubt that, Nigeria was going to be a great, if not the greatest African …

Democracy has been defined as the rule of the Majority. Well, in the Nigerian setting it is the rule of the crafty…

It is impossible to control government if you have no idea of what government is.  Today what people generally see as “Government” in Nigeria is not a government at all…