Nigeria Matters

A news report on the front page of The Nigerian Observer of Tuesday May 4, 2021 came with a caption, Edo Deploys Big Data in tax administration as Monthly IGR …

Insecurity has become rife in Nigeria. From the north to the south, life has become nasty, brutish, and short. Lately, Nigeria has been enmeshed in a firebox of insecurity leading …

I hereby mourn the demise of my dearest friend, the ubiquitous illegal checkpoint policeman, who was heartlessly made to kick the bucket by Unknown Gunmen. Oi! Oi! Oi! This monumental …

Across the land today, and in many political circumstances, we all hold President Muhammadu Buhari responsible for our collective tragedies. A symptom of the sickness in Nigeria today is a …

I don’t have change o!” was all the rather laconic-looking boy piloting the craft said as we set sail. Though I had the requisite ‘change’ as it were, the mere …

Dear President Buhari, it is auspicious that I write this letter to you, not as Obasanjo or Soyinka writes, but as a concerned citizen of Nigeria. It is going to …

As the quest for secession by several ethnic groups in Nigeria hots up, two major tribes have been more vocal than the rest- the Igbos of the South East and …

The governance processes of nearly all modern states are regulated by Constitutions that establish organs of Government to run government business in the form of (i) the making or repealing …

Nigerians are “wailing wailers”, according to the most excited arse-licker of the government of change and terrorism. It’s another season of wailing for Nigerians now that Twitter has bypassed the …

Having queried the criticisms that usually trail the appointment of judges and justices to trial and appellate courts – in the piece titled “Appointment to the Bench – Much Ado …

Since 1999, when Nigeria returned to democratic governance following years of military rule, no woman has been elected as president, vice president or governor in any of the country’s 36 …

The governance, administration and management of the affairs of a modern state stand on a tripod.  It consists of the making, execution and interpretation of laws. In most modern democratic …

We begin by appreciating the Federal Government for the very laudable economic intervention programmes it has initiated in recent times. We consider these programmes as fundamental interventions towards the economic …

Nigeria as a country has served all its useful and useless purposes, and must perforce be sold for good. I have spoken. I cannot just understand the piecemeal selling of …

The quest for power shift to the Southern part of Nigeria, particularly to the Igbo-speaking people may be having an early turbulence, so devastating that the flight may indeed become …

Confusion has taken over the entire land of Nigeria. To use the popular parlance, “everything is now jaga-jaga!” As I write now, the music of Eedris Abdulkareem booms: “Nigeria jaga-jaga! …