Nigeria Matters

Nigerians are very good at crowning false heroes. Just open a Nigerian newspaper you can find near you and see how many people that are recklessly described on its pages …

If my leaders tell me the “treasury is (virtually) empty” and I look around me and across the country, and I see progress and development, upliftment, empowerment of the masses; …

What I can pledge, with absolute certainty, is that from the first day of my administration, Boko Haram will know the strength of our collective will and commitment to rid …

“ The Devil takes a hand in what is done in a hurry’’ – Turkish Proverb I had the privilege some few years back-around 2009 to be precise, to sit …

Dear Malam, Congratulation on your well deserved victory as the next executive governor of this great ‘state of learning’. Your coming, I must confess, was timely and viewed by many …

There’s an idiom, “a house divided against itself cannot stand,” and as it stands, All Progressive Congress (APC) the party Nigerians entrusted with power to come rescue this nation from …

Or (Why The Noise? Buhari is not the Best in Nigeria) “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”. George Bernard Shaw “Change …

Last week, I suggested that President Muhammadu Buhari has squandered a full month of his presidential tenure doing little. Many readers understood the spirit of the piece, which is, quite …

The statement calling on Nigerians to celebrate themselves is open to logical disputation, polemic and exposition. It was not given much thought. It is one of the many headline catching …

Just a month into his inaugural tenure as President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the infant administration of Muhammadu Buhari is …

Lest we become guilty of what we accuse others of doing, it is imperative that we calmly but unequivocally state that the national leadership of the All Progressive Congress (APC) …

President Muhammadu Buhari is dangerously close to leaving Nigerians disillusioned. Forget about his failure (as at this writing) to announce his cabinet, bad as it is. For me, the deeper …

The agitation for the state of Biafra has been a struggle that is not alien to Nigeria. Many of us that were not born when the Nigerian civil war was …

President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo are being held to their campaign promise to declare their assets in public. As I do not consider that call as useful as …

In the glaring absence of political thinkers, who would have pointed to a new, more relevant societal system and order, the legacy of the British colonial legal system, economic order, …

One of our problems as a people, as a society, is our intrinsic inability to be sincere, even with ourselves, and from this derives dishonesty, which leads to corruption, deceit, …