Nigeria Matters

A multinational society like Nigeria can reconcile unity and diversity only if it does not confuse unity with uniformity and seek comprehensive cultural uniformity among its ethnic nationalities. It should …

Identical words with totally different meanings and effect in dialectics or languages around the world may be telling us something about our common heritage…

President Obasanjo is surely a smart and brilliant manager of Nigeria’s resources. It is often said in management that smart and savvy managers hire the best fits for the jobs …

America has clearly set out to undermine Nigeria, to create instability and disintegration! Despite the adamant insistence by some Nigerians that the current American federal government means well for Nigeria …

Those in power are always sensitive to avoid handing over political power to their avowed political enemies. Hence the deliberate subtle manipulation of both the process and the personnel to …

Those in power are always sensitive to avoid handing over political power to their avowed political enemies. Hence the deliberate subtle manipulation of both the process and the personnel to …

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It …

Corruption a la Nigeria is a reactive phenomenon.  It is a crime perpetuated out of the need to survive in the moment and reserve enough for the dicey future.  It …

Imagine a ship at sea that is in trouble. The lights keep going out. The engine is faltering. The rudder is unreliable. The first mate is drunk. The crew is …

The women in Nigerian politics have come a long way.  Theirs has been a very thorny and torturous journey through a very narrow and murky path in the nation’s political …

For those in the West, negative projections on Africa serve a very veritable purpose.  In the United States, for instance, the homeless, the hungry and the poverty-stricken members of the …

I cannot help but laugh when I hear Obasanjo and some of our leaders complain that our system of Justice is rather slow, and there is nothing they can do …

Nigeria is not among the announced countries slated for debt relief or cancellations, and in large measure, this is what I accuse President Bush of, he did not want Nigerian debt …

June 12, 1993 was that almost impossible day in the horizon of a country that had been written off as a colonially-induced tragedy of the worst kind; a date that …

I put the question again to Agagu and his docile Deputy. If Asodeboyede was not the only ruling House in Akure, how come Oba Afunbiowo was able to contest on …

I put the question again to Agagu and his docile Deputy. If Asodeboyede was not the only ruling House in Akure, how come Oba Afunbiowo was able to contest on …