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...

When Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Visited My Village

I was angry as a child because my uncles and big brothers shared with nostalgia the dream of what Biafra could have been, had Gowon not marshaled all the forces in the universe to quench the aspirations of a group of people in the hinterland...

The Death Of A Nigerian Icon – The Ikemba Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu

When we look back and forward to the present day Nigeria and how it is being run to the ground by the corrupt, hypocritical, religious and tribal fanatics, then perhaps it is time we started looking at Dim Ojukwu in a new light...

Achebe and The Company He Would Not Keep

There’s no question that Nigeria’s national honors register has been thoroughly cheapened, bastardized and drained of meaning. The annual conferral of national honors has become a farce, a charade that should provide great material for resourceful comedians...

Thoughts On Nigeria’s Population Explosion and Infrastructure Investment

One thing that is certain as day and night is that our leaders are not concerned about the future; never concerned about the future of their country and people. They are more concerned about NOW; about what goes into their pocket NOW...

Let them have our skulls instead

I waited gallingly for the roll callers to list out the names of the slain corps members; the true heroes and heroine of our new democratic dispensation, who were dastardly massacred in the course of national duty during the general elections...

Is Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala suitable for this job?

Since her second coming into office as Minister of finance and coordinator national economic management team, Dr Okonjo-Iweala has, through her deeds and utterances, made the issue of the sovereign national wealth her major battle...

Rivers, Looking For One More Excuse

The year 2011 is fast coming to an end. Some people would say that there are far more activities being carried out by Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State...

Empty Speech-making In Rivers

I lauded Governor Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State in the early hours of his leadership. That was when, like many other concerned residents of Rivers State and beyond, I was fighting tirelessly to assist him gain ground, because we needed change in the state...

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Tonye Princewill: A Nigerian Star I Know @ 45

Barely a toddler in the Nigerian politics in 2007, Princewill was nominated as the gubernatorial candidate of the then Action Congress, AC, for the governorship of Rivers State. This came in the midst of known contenders for that position...

Gerd Meuer: Encounter with the Oyinbo Pepper

The African Oyinbo who has transcended the length and breath of the Africa continent is in town to present his book written about his long time equally larger-than- life friend, the man he proudly calls Kongi- our own enigmatic Wole Soyinka...

How The Niger Deltans Can Get Their Freedom: The Action Plan! (Part 6)

Some militant groups, unfortunately, are making some tactical mistakes by releasing kidnapped foreign oil workers. This is a very serious blunder on their part! The militants, instead of releasing kidnapped or captured foreign oil workers, should step up their kidnapping...

Coming To America

What is the future of Nigerian presence in this country? Leaving home and coming to America... For you, has it been worth it?

Jonathan’s Acting Capacity: The Constitution Aligned for Democracy!

Attempts to sustain democracy in Nigeria tend to receive threats from those who are keeping awake all-night to crunch into power by hook or crook...

First, Kill The Lawyers

Nigeria's problems are multifaceted, the fact that we have an educated class that cannot discern right from wrong is disheartening and I don't see any way forward when the so called elite in our society are not capable of critical thinking...

EIA Process for WAGP Project: Concerns over Compliance with Policies and Applicable National Regulations

The flawed EIA process for the on-going WAGP is not an isolated case. It is a confirmation of the EIA practice in Nigeria, which is characterised by corruption and infraction of environmental legislation and regulations...

Let’s Call It Religious Corruption Syndrome (RCS)

Given the contradictions between being so religious, and being so dishonest as pointed out by President Jonathan; the issue of Religious Corruption Syndrome deserves an extensive study by scholars...

Ekiti Re-Run: Hanging to a Void or Hunting for a Voice?

What an historic opportunity we in Nigeria have wasted. With our British legacy of parliamentary democracy, we could have been different, a model and beacon for the rest of the third world...