Nigeria Matters

The new wave of robbers don’t snatch purses.  They rob banks and highly rich locales.  They don’t appear like armed robbers.  They are your frustrated neighbors that suddenly made it rich.  They …

Please, could somebody just walk across to President Olusegun Obasanjo’s cozy castle in Aso Rock and ask him how he felt when he saw the report that the two survivors …

Why would Ogbeh, a man who claims he cares for the nation, boldly deliberate and chair a committee that divides and donate the presidency of the nation to the North …

Why is it tha President Obasanjo never get credits for the successes of his sundry reform efforts? Why is it that there is always some political motivation or ethnical motivation or …

I remember one of the early conversations I had with Pastor Bimbo when I had questioned the existence of Heaven and Hell. I recall saying to her that I would hate …

I remember one of the early conversations I had with Pastor Bimbo when I had questioned the existence of Heaven and Hell. I recall saying to her that I would hate …

To keep Nigeria guessing is fast becoming an instrument of policy under Obasanjo. Even in his declared War against Corruption, our deadliest cancer, the best our Commander-in-Chief is doing, is …

Recently there was a debate about the high rate of unwanted pregnancies among teenagers and the need to ‘charitably’ adjust Nigerian abortion laws. The fact that there are unwanted pregnancies …

While it may be an over-generalization to label all Igbos charismatic, sometimes a self-evaluation of the individual in the mirror might bring out a perceived confident smile; while to the …

While it may be an over-generalization to label all Igbos charismatic, sometimes a self-evaluation of the individual in the mirror might bring out a perceived confident smile; while to the …

My parents taught me early in life that beyond and above all things, my siblings and I were the reasons they toiled, they worked or even bothered to wake up …

I met Pastor Bimbo like many others through her programme, Single and Married. As a newly married couple, my wife and I used to have our breakfast on Sundays with …

Why would you bomb your own neighborhood? Why cause mothers and fathers the grief and anguish of burying their innocent children? Go blow up buildings in Abuja. Go blow up …

Why would you bomb your own neighborhood? Why cause mothers and fathers the grief and anguish of burying their innocent children? Go blow up buildings in Abuja. Go blow up …

Although there has been jubilation in several quarters following the recent decision of the Federal High Court in Benin declaring the flaring of gas illegal, I have found that there …

Nigerians are in one vein optimistic and on the other cynical. We are one of the most religious yet the most corrupt nation on planet earth. Nigerians are very cynical …