Nigeria Matters

Please pardon me if I have gone against the African myth of keeping quiet amidst pains and suffering. I definitely cannot keep mute about the daily killings, kidnappings, and armed robbery going on across my country...

The convening of Njiko Igbo by Kalu is not sycophantic, but audacious. The overconfident Kalu sees the Njiko Igbo as an all important socio-political dais for a president of Igbo mining in 2015...

I see undeserving idiots, mediocre, charlatans and thieves being lauded and acclaimed everyday by the government, the society, religious segments and even the academics with the conferment of dubious honours, awards and accolades, chieftaincy and religious titles and I say to myself, “Are we a degenerate and depraved people who have unfortunately become used to suffering and battering from the hands of an unworthy few?”

Come to think of it, as at the time I wrote, the House of Representatives Committee headed by Farouk Lawan  established the payment of a hefty N3 trillion as phantom subsidy to sundry crooks and felons; all of whom enjoyed unimpeded favour with and access to the presidency...

The perceived show of might between the Rivers State Governor and the striking lecturers of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology under the umbrella of ASUU has taken a different dimension...

It has become obvious that the fear of Kalu is the beginning of political wisdom in not only Abia State, but in Nigeria, if the likes of Orji are having a nightmare...

In recent times, our once respectful, disciplined and hardworking youths have earned some uncomplimentary remarks in a society that has rubbed them of the better part of their lives, with little or nothing to show for it...

I must confess that I am still a stranger in this pampered city; since I am barely two months old in this city of chaos and confusion. But all the same, these two few months have been quite challenging and eye-opening in my sojourn as a journalist...