Nigeria Matters

The Impossible Death Of Dele Giwa

It has been 40 years since the satanic assassination of Dele Giwa through a letter bomb delivered to his home, but the departed iconic...

Oyebanji: Beyond BAO2BAO!

​In the experience of Nigeria, focusing largely on the post-1999 return to democracy, second terms have turned out to be a mixed bag. Very...

Teachers’ Day: Nigerian Teachers Deserve Better

October 5 is set aside to celebrate teachers across the world. World Teachers’ Day is iconic. It cuts national and regional boundaries. Unfortunately, for...

Kalu, Orji and Image

We suggest Orji should learn from Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, ex-Governor of the state and his political mentor, whom many ndi-Abia have seen as their choice...

Amaechi and Non-Rivers Indigenes Involvement In Government

While scrutinizing his government, as was reported on March 11, 2012, Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State said that over 2,000 Rivers and non-Rivers indigenes have so far benefited from his Special Overseas scholarship programme...

Orji’s Temperament Against Kalu

Most urgent needs in Abia State are not attended to; but we heard last time that – like father like son – Orji's beating about the bush compelled his bigheaded son to also be beating about the bush...

Amaechi, Sekibo and Kidnappers

With the micro cases of kidnapping activities in Rivers State, the perpetrators of the devilish act are making us a people of little faith...

Nigeria’s Dictatorship Fantasy

Until the institution of transparent elections take root in Nigeria, the minimal expectations of accountability by elected officials is bound to remain a mirage...

Kalu, Anyaoku and theWorld Bank

Kalu should not stop until positive things outnumber negative things in Nigeria. His body language on the position at the World Bank suggests that those involved in it should never beat around the bush...

The orchestrated plans to break up Nigeria

Like everything Nigeria, the spate of bombings in the country has taken another dimension, with faceless living human beings among us senselessly going after innocent church worshippers and Islamic pupils...

Nigeria's National Economic Management Team without quantifiable objective?

President Jonathan made an audacious move with the reconstitution of National Economic Management Team, essentially to engage in finding solutions to economic mishaps in the country...

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Reforming The Nigerian Police Force: Where are we Getting it Wrong? (I)

The image of the Nigerian Police is not that of a citizen-friendly force...

Recipe for Revolution

They say it cannot happen here. President Goodluck Jonathan’s men told us after a Federal Executive Council deliberation that the Egypt-style revolution that began in Tunisia and has become a shooting war in Libya cannot happen in Nigeria because our country has a ‘constitutional order.’ Whatever that means...

Social Justice, Democracy and the Rule of Law in Nigeria

The rule of law strengthens democracy and social justice. The Rule of Law will be built on shifting sands, if the essential  and crucial rights of citizens are not justiciable...

Brainstorming the uniqueness of American Politics

It is sensational to see America the beautiful from the air and to observe its sheer size, and those wonderful highways and their network of fly overs, not to talk of the sheer beauty of American cities at night power...

Happy Oliver Twist Day

There is need for all to come to the roundtable and iron issues out such that a side won’t be like the big man throwing few coins at the greedy beggar who can’t help but ask for more. The reason is simple—we are all big men… or could be, if circumstances change...

I am Angry…May Be Not!

No one respect Africans. They make fun of us in movies and literature. They call us names. Yet, no one has ever been sanctioned. But you cannot call a Japanese a “Jap,” or be seen mouthing anything bad against the Jews...

Nigeria: A Nation Under Intensive Care

"A nation that celebrates mediocrity in place of meritocracy...

Why Niger Deltans must continue to fight

Conflicts take place all over the world because you and I want to control the things that generate money and wealth. Now, since we cannot have everything we want, and get everything we have, states put institutions in place to ensure a reasonable distribution of the commonwealth to all...

Who will save Nigeria?

For reasons ranging from my late parents’ Christian tutelage...

Gov. T.A. Orji's Love For A United Nigeria

At the Enugu State Correspondents' Chapel Press Week held on November 10, 2013, Governor Theodore Ahamefule Orji of Abia State raised hope of recalling the non-indigenes who were working in the state's ministry that his government blatantly sacked...