Nigeria Matters

We are richly blessed with leaders who disregard the opinion of the electorate and insist on things being done their way. I believe that the time has come for us …

Anyone who still wonders why America is regarded as the most powerful nation in the world should visit an average university campus in God’s own country…

In 1998, during the Jos PDP conventions, how many Ndi Igbo presidential aspirants shared the Igbo votes? The Yoruba who were genuinely interested in producing a president, presented one person …

As far as the Anambra crisis is concerned, even a Nigerian infant can readily point out Chris Uba as the root cause of the crisis. In a State that has …

Over the years, Lucky has lost the essence of servant leadership that he very much expected of others and promised to adopt if he had the opportunity. In some sort …

Lateef Jakande was well on his way to national prominence as a young man, and many, including yours truly, had thought that if any southerner would ever get to be …

To invoke God’s name in the attempt to eradicate corruption in Nigeria is tantamount to begging the question. God will not eradicate corruption because He cannot do it. Corruption is …

With Francisca Yetunde Emmanuel, what you see is what you get, because there are to pretenses about her. She would tell it like it is, no matter whose horse is …

In recent months, it has become the refrain of government spokesmen to attribute any negative fall-out from any policy or action of government to the natural painful consequences of reforms…

This is corruption. This is theft. This is gross irresponsibility on the part of the state! Does the state not have competent legal officers to pursue the rogues who perpetrated …

When a government chooses which section of the law to respect; routinely violates the Constitution and court rulings, is that government not slapping the people in the face?

Nigerian prostitutes, I am told, are worth fifty Naira per round. That’s how cheap they are. And in the last two decades or so, it’s been easier to come by …

We kill our best and our brightest; we kill our innovators; we kill our political gadfly; we kill those who dare to be different; we kill those who helped in …

Here is a man that one needs to dine with…with a very long spoon. However, the wisdom of our fathers is that we do not disregard the message simply because …

One thing that never ceases to amaze me is the gross inability of the most chronically cynical of Nigerian critics to tolerate the slightest form of criticism when, for once, …

Your comments on my article, "Patriotism, Dead or Alive," came to my attention only yesterday. Installing me in a group, you accuse me of "a chronic pessimism as to become …