Nigeria Matters

I have read Nigerian dailies and marvel why our president, Mr. Umaru Yar’Adua could bear “baba-go slow” as a label…

Most Nigerians have refused to be part of what happens in Nigeria every May 29 since 1999. They don’t tie their increasingly pathetic fate to the bacchanal revelry and obscene …

When the history of the Nigerian nation is recorded for the benefit of posterity, I am convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that Chief Gani Fawehinmi will receive a …

I don’t know whether Nigeria has reached the stage where everyone will not be satisfied until each of us becomes literally a local government; so that I can trot to …

Today, only the North is ready to spill blood or go on another ‘killing rampage’ in order to keep Nigeria one. This is more than enough evidence to support the …

Today, only the North is ready to spill blood or go on another ‘killing rampage’ in order to keep Nigeria one. This is more than enough evidence to support the …

Today, only the North is ready to spill blood or go on another ‘killing rampage’ in order to keep Nigeria one. This is more than enough evidence to support the …

Today, only the North is ready to spill blood or go on another ‘killing rampage’ in order to keep Nigeria one. This is more than enough evidence to support the …

Today, only the North is ready to spill blood or go on another ‘killing rampage’ in order to keep Nigeria one. This is more than enough evidence to support the …

Senator Turaki has hoisted another kite to add to his rising profile as a master of slapstick: he has made a highly bizarre call for tenure extension to enable the …

In an era when the virtues of honesty and consistency have been sacrificed on the altar of political expediency, in a polity where mediocrity and sycophancy have become the best …

I feel more Nigerian than Biafran. The shortcomings of our shared nationhood notwithstanding I posit that if we all put tribal sentiments aside and become less crime-friendly, we can build …

Many Nigerians seek ‘solace’ in political connection that will earn them political power and economic prosperity. This becomes their means of survival and it is made possible because those at …

Who sings the songs of consolation to millions of unknown mothers whose Children are plucked off the face of the earth, who slump and die daily…

I have seen multinationals and big oil companies play by the rules elsewhere, but behaving badly in Nigeria and Africa because of our collapsed systems. We have to insist ourselves …

Our fathers, grand fathers and great grand fathers got independence for us from the British, but the North recolonised us immediately before the British even lowered the Union Jack…