Nigeria Matters

It is safe to conclude, from the psychological analysis of corruption, that our corrupt politicians and leaders must be mad. They must be psychopaths…

Ever since the re-opening of the Port Harcourt Airport, it seems there is a deliberate effort to stifle the operations of the Imo Airport, Owerri…

Chief Igbinedion sometimes wittingly or unwittingly gives the impression that he is competing with the Oba over a crown he can never wear. Since the crown is not purchasable one …

Kenya and Nigeria have too many things in common. Instead of guaranteeing citizens’ basic right to vote freely, both governments and their electoral officials actively colluded in electoral fraud and violence…

Kenya and Nigeria have too many things in common. Instead of guaranteeing citizens’ basic right to vote freely, both governments and their electoral officials actively colluded in electoral fraud and violence…

Ever since Mr. Timipre Sylva became the governor, and Mr. Goodluck became the Vice President, both men have managed to find ways to cause themselves, and the people of Bayelsa, …

It is said that if you close your eyes because you do not want to see evil, that good would also pass by unnoticed by you…

Over the next few weeks, I will be revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984…

In the Nigeria of today, much like in the 80’s and 90’s, the notoriety of ‘PHD’ a.k.a. Pull Him Down syndrome cannot be denied by anyone. Some people go to …

It was always going to end in tears. I mean the eventual displacement of Mallam Ribadu from the EFCC. There was a certain sense of inevitability about his removal from …

We thought that all hell was going to break loose again when the election tribunal in Anambra state upturned the purported ‘victory’ of one of Olusegun Obasanjo’s godsons, Andy Uba …

The time has come for Nigerians to begin to express a good measure of pessimism concerning those who put themselves up for public office. And that is because the Nigerian …

The recent proposed 5% user tax on petroleum products as a means of sourcing funds for sustained road maintenance activities in the country deserves second thought…

The recent proposed 5% user tax on petroleum products as a means of sourcing funds for sustained road maintenance activities in the country deserves second thought…

When we write on issues we feel should be considered to take Nigeria forward, what we get is negative feedback from people who purport to be more patriotic than us…

In our Nigeria today, the corruption chain reaction now appears to have hijacked the total hierarchy of power. It is complete…