Nigeria Matters

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, …

APC was formed as a progressive political party. But happenings since the inauguration of the party on May 29, 2015 suggest that there may not be a departure from what …

In the aftermath of the inauguration of the 6th democratically elected president of Nigeria, the pandering predilections that heralded the outcome of the presidential polls are gradually fading away. All …

This is a treatise on sociocratic change as a more humane and enduring system of governance. It will free us from ideological bondage, as well as from neo-colonial manipulations and …

Recently, I was jolted by a report I stumbled upon about the brutal abduction, terrorisation and illegal detention of a hapless young man in Enugu by the bodyguards of the …

Muhammad Buhari has been campaigning, running for the office of the President of Nigeria since 2003. That is a long time – twelve years to be exact. I don’t know …

The revolutionary election of March 28th, 2015, that produced president Buhari as winner was a bloodless and silent revolution. This revolution was carried out collectively by a determined hapless people …

By the time you read this, you should have seen President Muhammadu Buhari’s list of ministerial and Special Advisers nominations. If not, then welcome to the painful reality of a …

One of the joys of being a columnist is to occasionally receive a remarkably cogent response to one of my pieces. Sometimes, the response comes from a reader who agrees …