Nigeria Matters

Before he came to be more widely known on a national basis, Chief Bola Ige had exercised executive governance over the old Oyo State between 1979 and 1983. At a time when the federated units of the nation were 19 in number and much easier to keep track of...

It was my friend who called. In my half-sleep state, I could make out the words “bombing,” “church,” and “Catholic.” I mumbled “hun-hun” and hurriedly hung up. She called back...

See, the lazy man analysis of some kind of sectarian dimension to the ongoing crisis ignores a larger problem: that of indifference that has been rocking our nation since the 1980s. On three dimensions, we the citizens of Nigeria have been indifferent and today the chicken is coming home to roost...

Perhaps, aside from the harrowing experience of the unfortunate 30-month Civil War that raged between 1967 and 1970, which virtually tore apart the nation’s social fabric still dangerously holding the people together till this day, the parlous, testy state of affairs in Nigeria’s socio-economic and political systems in recent times definitely calls for an urgent remedy...

To say the least, the submissive and tepid reaction of the Nigerian President to the latest round of violence unleashed on the citizenry by Boko Haram was irksome and left a sour taste in the mouth...

The recent death of secessionist General Emeka Odimegwu Ojukwu has reawakened the need, alas the urgency, for a Nigerian national debate about this very cataclysmic part of our national history...

Humanity is gradually losing the essence of life, a growing global village gradually being swallowed up in an endless ocean of uncertainty, suspicion and apprehension...

Last Sunday, Nigeria made another bloody bid for global infamy as bombs detonated in churches in Abuja and elsewhere in the country. At the time of this writing, the death toll stood at more than twenty-five, and was expected to rise. That’s a staggering loss of live...