Nigeria Matters

In Bayelsa State, things are, for the most part, stagnant. Billions and billions of dollars since 1999 under two administrations, one cannot point to noteworthy progress in the state. Whatever …

How can a Senator of the Federal Republic elect to conceal very vital information that would be most useful in the sanitization the National Assembly?

It would task the most ingenuous minds to locate where exactly the Yar’Adua presidency is headed. It would stretch the greatest genius to even hazard a guess on where exactly …

Scandals, scandals. We do not even know what is going on in the states and local governments. The ones we know and read of are associated to the federal level. …

Nigeria is oil rich and yet most people live in poverty. Where is all the wealth going? Conventional wisdom is that Nigerians are being cheated out of their due by …

Government should not presume that they know what will benefit the poor better than the poor themselves. When a program has been failing each time it is attempted, the ideal …

Government should not presume that they know what will benefit the poor better than the poor themselves. When a program has been failing each time it is attempted, the ideal …

Before my MTN Nigeria final stage employment interview at the famous Philip consulting centre in the UBA house at Marina, Lagos, I never had a face to face conversation with …

It is not hard to see that corrupt political leaders will make effort to see that the immunity clause is retained in the Constitution. That is the cloak under which …

It is not hard to see that corrupt political leaders will make effort to see that the immunity clause is retained in the Constitution. That is the cloak under which …

Any probe that fails to unearth how U$10 billion could only purchase us darkness instead power supply that would have illuminated our lives would be useless…

A new generation is rising. A generation that strongly believes in the new Nigerian project. Young minds that will re- build the fallen walls of Nigeria. They are springing up …

Over the past few weeks I have been revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984.  This is the concluding part of the series…

Over the past few weeks I have been revisiting the controversial attempt to kidnap Umaru Dikko in 1984.  This is the concluding part of the series…

I believe many keen observers of event in my beloved Anambra state will be wondering what next for Andy Ubah after the Supreme Court Ruling that struck out his case…

Whatever the real reasons for honouring the great Ojukwu, I suspect that buried within the subtext of that honorific title ‘Dim,’ is a hidden meaning which only those with ‘ears …