Nigeria Matters

Recently, Lamido was reported to have belched hot venom and sulphuric acid on all those that refuse to buy into his come-and-eat feeling that Obasanjo, his father and benefactor is …

What will it take to free Nigeria? Can one man do it? Can we do it together? Should the will of the majority be held perpetually in bondage by the …

Bayelsa is today a cathedral of broken dreams, a valley of pain.It is a state where political incest, debauchery, and cardinal sins have become a way of life…

Anyone who has had the opportunity of interacting closely with our traditional rulers will readily agree that some of them are sound and first class individuals…

It is in employing his resources in fighting Igbo collective interests and promoting Obasanjo’s personal interests that Sam Egwu excelled. He never believed in nor aided any cause that stood …

Last week, the House of Representatives saved the nation further disgust and embarrassment, when it finally terminated the protracted game of shame with which it had grossly diminished the nation…

That President Umaru Yar’Adua is presently unhappy with the Nigerian Judiciary is not in doubt…

Suddenly, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua is finding his voice. Suddenly, he seems to be in a big hurry to discard the tag of see-nothing-bad, do-nothing president…

Looking at the situation from a remedial perspective, responsibility may have been the bane for the post war Igbo leadership failures…

In Nigeria, God blessed us with huge mineral deposits and arable land that multiplies fruits and foodstuffs in harvest time. Yet, hunger stalks the land with millions of our people going to …

Nigeria in the immediate past decades has contended with various Adedibu-manifestations. Thuggish-Adedibu, anarchic-Adedibu, political buffoonery-Adedibu, and such others have been the presentations of the persona…

During the period of aviation industry development in Nigeria, politicians who did not understand the importance of aviation in a nation’s growth strangulated and rendered capable aviation professionals useless…

God, some maintain, made it possible for Yar’Adua and Jonathan Goodluck to be where they are today. I personally do not think that God has anything to do with the …

I have often wondered why Nigerian newspapers have not caught up with their counterparts in the west, in serving their readers appetising and imaginative headlines…

Since the Supreme Court rulings in the Amaechi case, the camp of the opinionated has since joined hands with the camp of the lawless to discredit the court…

The three deepest gulfs that divide the Nigerian society are ethnicity, sectional interest and the ever widening gap between the rich and the poor. Of the three gulfs, ethnicity is the …