Nigeria Matters

Every day you queue up to buy petrol at N34 a litre or pay twice the amount you used to pay for your bus ride, you will be contributing to …

The federal government has N60 billion to construct a new stadium, but is unwilling to commit a few billions to reviving education in Nigeria…

The awakened common Nigerians should continue to shout as loudly as they can and from every rooftop until we wake up all the sleeping common Nigerians…

If Buhari and other protesters fail or are discouraged in their pursuit, the electorate becomes permanently disenfranchised and nothing will stop a repeat at future elections.

Oga, dem say make I ask you one question: you dey crase?

Isn’t it only in this part of the world that foreigners almost succeed in making bona-fide nationals look like illegal immigrants?

what is the use of speaking all the languages if I cannot communicate with my relations from the village in the local dialect that has existed for generations?

The average Nigerian lusts for easy wealth and society no longer questions the source of such wealth, rather flaunting such ill gotten wealth is the eulogized in glossy magazines…

There was a supposed embargo on employment, but on an almost weekly bases, new staff joined, almost invariably related to some government official or other…

Life here as we saw it was a dark cloud without a silver lining. We have become so dead to the wailings of the poor in our bid to get …

Dreams? What is the price of dreams in my Nigeria your Nigeria? Dreams can only buy frustration, despondency, despair, and disappointments…

On TV, young people who ought to be in school are being paraded as crime suspects… Meanwhile, the children of our leaders are seen in society magazines at graduation ceremonies …

Poverty and a crippled economy have forced hundreds of thousands of children out of Nigerian schools into the streets to fend for themselves and their families…

Driving to work this morning, I was ruminating over an e-invitation I received yesterday requesting me to submit the title of the African book that has had the most impact …

Animals have more sense than we give them credit for. Ever heard of a ‘world war’ amongst amphibians or reptiles?

Yoruba politics can inhabit the center in its own right but that is only if its leaders stop the public exchanges of unpleasantness as characterized in the last four years…