Nigeria Matters

The question that readily comes to mind is whether Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the rambunctious banker and corporate giant, and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, the Emir of Kano, will be idem sonnas. …

A gymnastic political party ought to be able to field only a candidate whose breadth of knowledge covers the whole political issues of crucial interest to the state and its …

It is a fact, painful as it is, that most of today’s calamities are borne out of yesterday’s inanities. What is worse is the fact that we are all in …

Chibok will never be same again.  Chibok, a sleepy village in the North-Eastern part of Nigeria lost almost 300 girls to the menacing Boko Haram.  The Islamic terrorist group has …

The Presidency “rigged” the Ekiti election in a very sophisticated way, in a manner that cannot be discerned by the ordinary eye. In his campaign visit to Ekiti State, President …

The victory of Ayodele Fayose of the People’s Democratic Party over incumbent Governor Kayode Fayemi of the All Progressives Congress cannot be over emphasized. Without doubt, it was a huge …

A true journalist is desirous of collecting a generous envelope from history as reward for professionalism and ethical conduct, he must be balanced and objective almost to a fault. Pundits …

Does this mean I have lost hope in Nigeria? God forbid! Then why are my mad? I am mad at the present directionless, disjointed system and its operators; mad at …

It has been more than 80 days after terrorists in the guise of Islamists kidnapped over 200 school girls in Chibok Nigeria. And it goes without saying that the unprecedented …

One of the things that I cannot do as a discourse analyst involved with public issues and policies is to focus unnecessarily on personalities or personal attributes of prominent people …

I once bought fish in Portharcourt with distended stomach filled with crude oil. My friend, Green Douglas, who had a thriving  farm of cassava, yams and other agricultural products, now …

For me, one of the most disconcerting facts about public discourse in Nigeria—including intellectual exchanges—is the rampant, if not default, deployment of ethnic or religious sentiments…

It is only in Orji’s Abia State that a government could not account for the money it has so far received from the Federation Account…

The sad events of the past couple of days – which were reportedly orchestrated by some disgruntled members of the Edo State House Of Assembly – paint a horrible spectacle …

My impromptu trip to Nigeria was an experience that will continue to linger in my mind. The news of my mom in comatose made me very unsettled and agitated…

A contemptible, uncreative elite, its obsession with conspicuous consumption matched by its inability to produce anything of value, has overseen Nigeria’s obscene, record-setting squandermania…