Nigeria Matters

Some of us have seen the mountaintop, but how many of our brothers and sisters have? Some have faintly glimpsed the future through dreams and euphoric indulgence, but this has remained a curse rather than a blessing...

The anticipated presidential candidacy of Goodluck Ebele Jonathan has become a big business trapped in high wire politics and intrigues...

Unlike Anambra State, Imo State has had little problem of hijacked state apparatus by immoral godfathers or their lackeys and the citizenry boasts of majority of enlightened electorate who hold their leaders to account...

Each time our legislators dominate national discourse, it is unlikely to be for their law making prowess or compassion for their hapless constituents who wallow in poverty from one end of the country to the other...

Will Nigerians and Nigeria sleep-walk to the precipice and fall of the cliff? Or, will there be an electioneering campaign with ideological stances by the plethora of political parties and their myriad posturing personalities parading as candidates for various elective public offices?

Is poverty the only thing we appear to have accepted as inevitable component of life in this part of the world? What about crime? How come crime appears to have gradually become too natural with us in Nigeria here...

IBB is dogged by many irksome riddles: the murder of the late journalist, Dele Giwa, who was assassinated via a parcel bomb in 1986; the baffling case of $12.46b Gulf Oil windfall which allegedly grew wings under IBB’s watch; the annulment of the June 12 election...

Nigerians seem to always allow outsiders to define Nigerians and Nigeria and what is important to Nigerians and Nigeria. We seem to be so intellectually objective in the most academic and most abstract sense...