Nigeria Matters

Today, we have to pull and push Nigeria on all sides. Today, we have to embark on flesh-and-blood distillations of the many aberrations pummeling Nigeria and making a supposedly great …

Apart from being widely known as the dictator under whom corruption became state policy in Nigeria, retired General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, erstwhile military “President” of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, …

In his speech in London last week, President Muhammadu Buhari, ever his frank and honest self, captured the challenges a state like Nigeria faces, with a huge population fixated on …

We should empathize with President Muhammadu Buhari’s honesty and his current self-inflicted brouhaha. Buhari is being badly managed by his handlers. I also strongly sympathize with my contemporary Nigerian youth …

The present atmosphere we now find ourselves in today seems to come down to the attitude of the people versus government.  This is not something any citizen of Nigeria, or …

I told you guys that Nigeria is a neo-colony of Britain.  That is why Buhari preferred to present a speech at Chatham House, instead of appearing for a presidential debate …

Nigeria-First is a mindset.  It is a frame of mind where you sleep and dream of your nation and get passionate to the point of being willing and ready to …

As 2019 approaches, those who brought Nigeria to its knees, vandalized and wrecked it and left it for dead before 2015 are busy trying to weave a comeback mantra that …

Sometime ago in 1985, some musicians heeded the call to a studio to record a song that became an epic. That song; “We are the world” went on to sell …

You are merely not what people see outwardly but who you are inwardly with your mindfulness – Yahaya Balogun “Man is not what you think he is, he is what …

Elections and electioneering campaigns are becoming interesting in Nigeria these days with the unthinkable number of political parties struggling for visibility and prominence.  The dynamics of a successful election are …

Since Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, released what he called a ‘teaser’ to the list of looters that vandalized and wrecked the country’s treasury especially during the immediate past PDP …

Femi Fani-Kayode was born into the family of the late political gladiator and renowned lawyer, Chief Remi Fani-Kayode. Chief Remi served in so many capacities being one of the political …

When I saw the nauseating and uglified APC 2019 election posters of Musiliu Obanikoro, the former PDP Minister of State for Defense under the ineffectual and corrupt administration of Goodluck …

So PDP apologized for ‘mistakes’ it made before it was swept to the dustbin three years ago. Its National Chairman, Uche Secondus organized a forum for its waning members in …

The sting in the comments by erstwhile British Prime Minister, David Cameron, describing Nigeria as “fantastically corrupt” will linger for a long time. Perhaps what makes the animadversion more jarring …