Nigeria Matters

Hello! Be Wise As The Campaigns Begin

Barring any divine intervention, and never ruling out the unpredictability of the cosmic regime, the 2027 general elections in Nigeria will be held. The...

Nigeria Is Dying In Bondage

The calls came to me in quick succession - from the United States and some cities in Nigeria - concerning the health and accommodation...

Osun Election: Victory For The People

The result of the just-concluded governorship election in Osun State still resonates across the country at deafening decibels. Everybody is celebrating the Accord Party’s...

ABUJA: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria? (3)

What about the government? How should they spend the money in their custody? Just like private investors, every government has limited resources, as a result, it is faced with the same problem of choosing which projects to embark on behalf of the citizens...

ABUJA: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria? (3)

What about the government? How should they spend the money in their custody? Just like private investors, every government has limited resources, as a result, it is faced with the same problem of choosing which projects to embark on behalf of the citizens...

ABUJA: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria? (3)

What about the government? How should they spend the money in their custody? Just like private investors, every government has limited resources, as a result, it is faced with the same problem of choosing which projects to embark on behalf of the citizens...

ABUJA: Capital of Nigeria or Northern Nigeria? (3)

What about the government? How should they spend the money in their custody? Just like private investors, every government has limited resources, as a result, it is faced with the same problem of choosing which projects to embark on behalf of the citizens...

Nigerian Corruption: We Are All Guilty

Nigeria is internationally famous for three things: oil, its Super Eagles football team, and its spectacular government corruption.  However, contrary to popular belief it is quite simply a myth that corruption is perpetrated mostly by the government...

The Nigeria Police And Public Safety

The Nigeria Police Force no longer protects the Nigerian public, rather, the Nigerian public should be protected from the men and women of this outdated and corrupt force...

The Pathetic Tolerance of Evil in Nigeria

Nigeria as a nation is a victim of 1914! When you reverse those numbers starting from letter 4 you get 419, a national embarrassment...

The Untold Story Of The Niger Delta Agitation

In every community we visited, we heard people speak about the adverse effects that oil exploration and production has had on their livelihood. People's food sources depend on the same natural resources that are destroyed by polluting oil operations...

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Amaechi: My Own House Rent!

Rivers masses live below poverty level. Many can hardly afford one good meal a day. If Amaechi does not know, he should research, and be shocked by the mammoth crowd of people complaining about the high cost of living in Rivers State...

Nigeria: A Clarion Call for Restructuring

I have taken a hard look at events over...

Deep Sighs after SARS

Since the #ENDSARS protests began, I have had a...

The Ijaw Question: Military or Diplomatic Solutions?

Why would you bomb your own neighborhood? Why cause mothers and fathers the grief and anguish of burying their innocent children? Go blow up buildings in Abuja. Go blow up bridges in Lagos. Go cause environmental problems in Kaduna. Go assassinate the head of the oil companies who are safely ensconced in their palatial homes in Lagos and Port Harcourt and elsewhere. Leave our mothers and fathers and daughters and sisters and brothers alone…

Onitsha Needs and Deserves Environmental Facelift

Onitsha the commercial Mecca of Anambra State in Nigeria, the city that gave us Main Market, the largest market in Africa, has been neglected so much that it desperately cries for a facelift...

Brave Voice from the Diaspora – Part 2

Brixton that night was turned into hunting zone. Every moving black man was a suspect. Black men were being hunted down like animals. I would soon fall into the hand of my oppressors. I raved and ranted but the police man would have none of it…

COVID-19 Pandemic and the Days that follow!

“Lockdown has immediate ramifications for individuals who live on...

The Land Deal: Reuben Abati Opens Up…Sort of

"I still insist that there is a land registry at the FCTA. You go there and do your investigations instead of asking me to respond to pure rubbish…. What is your problem? Land?"

My Country, My Vote, My Money – Did You Spend It Properly?

Nigerians are working to avert a repetition of the June 12, 2003 incidence at the forthcoming 2011 general elections...

The Paradox Of Corruption And Patriotism

To say that the country called Nigeria is a conundrum is a gross understatement. To both its people and foreigners, it is a country that is, in its extremity, baffling, frustrating, annoying and uncivilised...