Nigeria Matters

If we want Nigerian airlines to expand, be profitable and to employ more people, the efficient way forward is to make them competitive and attractive to not only Nigerians but also to the rest of the world...

The pattern of attacks is no longer confined to the North-Eastern state of Borno, it has spread to the North West and there had been unsuccessful attempt to spread South ward...

Nigerian civil servants are the laziest, most indolent, most ineffective and most corrupt breed of their kind in the world. They collude very enthusiastically and very willingly with the politicians and bankers to loot the country. And they are so hypocritical, it is almost unbelievable...

What else could be called moral corruption? To the intellectual dude, politicians have morally crippled the country and the governance, but they will be destroyed by God...

Still fresh in most minds  is the president’s loud promise last year to ‘soon’ expose those behind the deadly bombings by the dreaded Boko Haram sect, and right now it is another new year and Nigerians are still waiting eagerly to hear this important exposé...

The country's perennial domestic disorder is due largely to destructive instinct which has continued to be synonymous with the abject and seething cauldrons of poverty of the largest population of the people of Nigeria...

I guess “the light” has finally come to Ekiti state in form of LCD powered panels called laptops purchased by our state governor in his wisdom for our 100,000 secondary school students at the cost of four hundred million dollars!

I was reading a report in last Sunday’s edition of the Punch titled “FG Rules out Direct Talks with Boko Haram” when a statement by presidential spokesman, Reuben Abati, jumped out at me. According to the paper, Mr. Abati confirmed that the Goodluck Jonathan administration was not in direct talks with Boko Haram...