Nigeria Matters

Simply put, Zonal Intervention Projects (ZIPs), also known as Constituency Projects (CPs), are projects that are conceptualised and executed on behalf of legislators in their respective constituencies by contractors. They …

“To choose not to choose is still a choice for which you alone are responsible” _ Gary Cox (British philosopher) The whirlwind that blew through the Executive Council of the …

The buzz activated by the arrest and subsequent extradition to Nigeria of the leader of Biafra Zionist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, purportedly via the …

In the halcyon days of his regime, President Olusegun Obasanjo touted Christianity and Pharisaical prayers. He had a sedulous apostle in then Anambra Governor, Dr Chinwoke Mbadinuju, who took his …

 The exclusion of electronic transmission of election results from the final version of the Electoral Act amendment Bill expected to be passed into law by the National Assembly this month …

Restructuring is a smoldering topic that has continued to gain ascendancy in public discourses as the search for a magic formula to cure Nigeria of its multiple incapacitating ailments, continues …

At the launch of the Kudirat Abiola Sabon Gari Peace Foundation, In Zaria, Kaduna State, President Muhamadu Buhari, via a statement by the Executive Secretary of the Revenue Mobilization, Allocation …

Going to work could mean your death. It was indeed a bad time. The June 12, 1993 election won by Bashorun MKO Abiola had just been annulled by the military …

It is becoming a kind of ritual for the Rivers Governor to pummel perceived political opponents each time he schedules a program to commission projects he was elected to execute …

In a report credited to Robert I. Rotberg, the founding Director of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Intrastate Conflict and President Emeritus of the World Peace Foundation, and John …

I will start with my conclusion. This phase will pass – very soon. It shall be well with the people of Nigeria. Nigeria will survive. I won’t add a caveat …

The agitation for a separate country out of what is known as Nigeria, by two major ethnic groups – the Igbos and the Yourubas, both of Southern Nigeria rooting for …

Only simpletons are deceived, by the obsequious silence of a canary. Or the banal tranquility of a thorn bird. When those condemned to sing, suddenly pretend to silence, then nature …

Prelude to the conclusion of its tenure, the 8th Senate assented to a bill earlier passed by the House of Representatives, which confirmed June 12 as Nigeria’s official Democracy Day, 26 years after the acclaimed …

While I was reflecting on the current challenges facing the nation in the area of insecurity, I got a phone call from a younger friend who wanted my opinion on …

Dateline Delta State: Senator Godswill Akpabio, Minister of Niger Delta Affairs and supervising Minister of the Niger Delta Development Commission stormed the state in an unscheduled visit. The man popularly …