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...

Orji Won, But A Defeated Governor

There is nobody distracting Orji in developing Abia. Only insincerity is distracting him. How could a governor say that he does not need distraction because people went to the court?

Mis-Governance in Nigeria: Causes And Cures!

In a constitutional democracy, accountability is owed to the electorate by all persons in government but Nigerians have had their voices caged for so long now...

Amaechi's Consolidation OF The Projects

Another item on Governor Chibuike Amaechi’s menu as the Rivers State governor is the consolidation of the projects he started in his first tenure in office and their sustainability...

Boko Haram on Nigeria: Error On Terror!

Anyone who knows Nigeria very well has every reason to be surprised and worried about the recent bomb-blast at the Louis Edet building which housed the Nigerian police force headquarters at Abuja FCT....

Neither Speakership nor Chairmanship, Just a Yoruba Nation

What the people need is good education, good health care, massive infrastructural development, and an environment that allows trade and industry to flourish all in a vibrant intellectual environment...

Spotlight on Dr. Dawari’s Reign as Commissioner for Energy Natural Resources

As commissioner, Rivers State, he made plans and developed a master plan for the state, which will enable the government to utilize gas for both domestic and industrial activities. His reign as Commissioner introduced a legislation that will enable intervention directly in the oil and gas sector...

Response to Maurice Iwu’s Rejoinder on the Sale of Nigeria’s Collective Inheritance

Nigeria and the rest of Africa should quit begging for crumbs from the West and begin to canvass for a change in the WTO agreements that leave the continent vulnerable to poachers of its indigenous knowledge. Clearly the drum beat must change so that the dance steps would change with it...

Amaechi Odili: Fasten Reconciliation With Forgiveness

Amaechi and Odili henceforth should wear Unconditional Love and forgiveness as a garb, because of its essence to humanity, while we embrace the ability to forgive and eliminate judgment unconditionally...

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Freedom Coalition: $250m fund to elect Abubakar Umar…(4)

If Jonathan eventually clinches the PDP nomination - which we should pray for, but eventually loses the 2011 elections to a Northerner from the opposition parties, neither Jonathan nor any Southerner will be given the opportunity again to contest in 2015 on the platform of the PDP...

Being Unmarried Is the ‘Ultimate’ Crime in Nigeria

I am not discouraging marriage. But it must not be the beginning and end of anyone’s life. Havoc is being wreaked on our society because of the marriage-at-all-cost mindset...

Nigeria: Legitimizing Terrorism and Banditry?

Many things in life defy comprehension, rationality, or basic...

Is Black Really Beautiful?

Nigeria and Africa in all their poverty are really just a heartbeat away from the ancestral and cultural poverty that Black America suffers.  Are we allowing our Black youths to be groomed to believe that “black is not beautiful?” 

America’s Africa Policy President Obama

With the recent election of Mr. Barack Obama as president of the United States of America, it is my view that America is finally living up to its constitutional promise of equality...

Uncle Sam Is In, But Let’s Not Pack It In

Now that the United States, Britain, and some European countries may be stepping in to help rescue the Chibok girls, I hope that Nigerians won’t fold up, reach for their beers and pepper soup—and go into snooze mode...

The Mix-Up Of Corruption, The Rule Of Law And Due Process

Corruption is worse than terrorism. Public officials who are corrupt should receive worse treatment than that reserved for terrorist. It is high time we refocus and give issues of corruption attention...

Igbos Deserve A Chance To Ruin (Fix) Nigeria Too…

If anything, we are all in agreement that there is no hope in this current arrangement anyhow. If we agree on that, then let’s conclude and exhaust these very arrangements with the selection of an Igbo in 2011...

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?

Poets Storm Idoto in Honour of Christopher Okigbo

By Odili Ujubuoñu African poets will stir the quiet and...