Nigeria Matters

British colonialism built roads, established networks of communications, and established bureaucratic jobs that encouraged – or forced – people to wander outside their immediate natal addresses. Yet, wherever they went within Nigeria, the compass for these half-hearted Nigerians remained pointed towards that home...

The world of security and strategic thinking is not for the fickle minded; neither is it for the “go along” person. In this world, knee jerk reactions are often not the right ones. While emotions should give way to careful analysis, so should logic and strength of conviction be carefully weighed and ingratiated in the decision making process...

Part of Okonkwo’s curse is to lack the mental wherewithal to realize how the white man, though outnumbered, has nevertheless radically transformed Umuofia. Achebe’s tragic hero goes to his death without understanding how thoroughly the white man has redrawn Umuofia’s – nay Africa’s – map. Okonkwo has no inkling that his nine villages had become, in effect, the tiniest dot on a much larger map...

After reading Nasir El-Rufai’s The Accidental Public Servant, I anticipated that many people would have something to say about the book. Those people who have implicated in the book have started voicing their dismay...

There is this natural tendency to despair in the rot called Nigeria even when one lives in this paradise of misgovernance in fits and bursts. However, despair is exactly what the rulers of Nigeria want us to feel...

What is the cause of the fight? Simply and again, speculations are rife that Ameachi, once a close confidante and a member of Jonathan’s kitchen cabinet is nursing a vice presidential ambition together with a candidate from the North. If that is true, it would be a strong challenge from one ‘brother’ to another.

My understanding of Nigeria’s chequered history from the fifties to the coup period indicates that the political leaders, by their actions and inactions, gave these idealistic, naïve and ambitious soldiers the opportunity to strike. Nigerians were sick of the politicians, though in varying degrees, by January 1966...

Developed and developing countries are going through the most severe global meltdown since the days of great depression. Originated in United States of America, the Economic recession is affecting all major players...