Nigeria Matters

By Salmanu Jekadafari  The question above seems to speak the minds of some All Progressive Congress (APC) members in Gombe State. In Gombe State, the politicking is not only rocking …

By nature, development ‘belongs to those who know it, not those who have it or can buy it.’ It is like a picture, which one keeps working on. Parochialism, on …

November 16th 2022, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, INEC chairman wrote Nigerians a letter. In that letter, the INEC chairman said that there were only a hundred days left to the General …

Gombe needs help.  It really does, but not just because available data says that it is the one state in Nigeria with the second lowest GDP in the whole of …

Angry bees of the wild are up in arms against the politicians of Nigeria, and the politicos are running helter-skelter for their dear lives. Just the other day, on Saturday, …

A SATIRE ON TINUBU’S AFENIFERE FORAY Felix, what is happening? Will you guys continue to sleep and allow this man to ride roughshod over Afenifere once again? Wetin we go …

Amidst prevailing weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth, news of the ‘completion’ of the 2nd Niger Bridge was received with elation nationwide; nay the Southeast. As announced by the works …

Knowing neither how nor why, I woke up this morning on a kind of high. Largely influenced by the escalating cost of energy worldwide, it left me, a la once …

The inimitable Peter Enahoro, aka Peter Pan, wrote in his classic book, How To Be A Nigerian: “Next to God, there is nothing that fills the heart of the Nigerian …

Let’s say I want to re-build a nation that’s already on life support and clinically dead. The population is blaming the politicians, past and present, for the predicament the country …

A noted cynic and friend of mine provided the mnemonic for this piece. Unbidden, he had opened up on the aged tale of the world being filled by three human …

Nigeria is currently on a brink, virtually all the major political actors have given up on the Buhari administration and the citizenry seems to be looking up to the 2023 …

President Buhari never fails to blow his trumpet occasionally. The more so when those he assigned the job forget. More like the storied lizard off the dizzying height of a …

The two generals are seen as the best of friends across the political spectrum of the Nigerian nation. In many informed circles, General Matthew Okikiola Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo and General …

The presidency of Nigeria is so highly coveted that even expired players want to grab it “by fire, by force”, as the Pentecostals would say. The presidential wannabes are all …

The Osun Independent Electoral Commission (OSIEC) has announced October 15, 2022 as the date for Local Government and Local Council Development Area elections across Osun State. According to the Commission, …