Nigeria Matters

The dreaded Ebola virus and Boko Haram represent different faces of two most dire crises currently plaguing Nigeria. The former is a natural contagion, the latter a human-made disaster…

Despite all the elaborate search and rescue efforts that have been expedited by a combination of Nigerian security forces and their foreign allies, using the most advanced information gathering equipment …

Some enlightened people in our country today who hold very strong opinions about   government hold those opinions because of the strong position taken by Jean Jacques Rousseau. This thinker of …

On Saturday 9 August 2014, the people of Osun State went to the polls to elect a Governor for the next four years. Expectations were high, fears of violence and …

Men in their late 40s and 50s begin to think seriously about retirement.  In Nigeria when you retire, you are on your own and everything is in the air.  You …

Most of us watching from the sidelines did not really understand what an El-Rufai was going to do in Anambra State on the very eve of the elections. Was he …

From religious fundamentalist groups rising up against the state and its institutions, ethnic militias adopting arcane methods of their own in questioning the legitimacy of the Nigeria State, an increasing …

At the beginning of August, President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Suleiman Abba as Nigeria’s new Inspector General of Police. On the day of his formal investiture as police henchman, Mr. Abba …

Nigerians were thrown into the ice when in July 2003, a sitting governor in the person of Ngige was abducted and was placed with a gun on his throat to …

A great number of public nursery, primary, secondary and tertiary schools across the country do not have lavatories, experts said. Some have toilets, but its either the restrooms do not …

My recent column, entitled “Bishop Kukah’s Grave Misreading,” generated a high volume of emails, many of them remarkable for their insight. I was so struck by one email, written by …

The signs of a brewing political war are very ominous to all discerning observers as we gradually approach the 2015 General Elections. From shifts in political alliances, convocation of fresh …

It is important to note that fundamental organizational strategy frameworks used in businesses can easily be applicable to political parties. When it is all said and done, political parties are …

It has been over one hundred days since the abduction of the Chibok girls. Over one hundred days in which the girls have had to endure pure horror and pain …

Amaechi seemingly did not tighten up how contracts were awarded in Rivers State. He might say that it was not in his office to award contracts, but since this concerned …

It beats every sense of reasoning when a machinery of the Federal Government like the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, bemused the world with the statement that the former …