MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas It was a day of lamentations in the House of Representatives on Tuesday as lawmakers expressed deep sorrows over the rising insecurity across the country. The House dedicated the plenary session to deliberate on the state of national security with a view to identifying the causes, effects and proffering solutions which would […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas In a statement by its spokesman, Mogaji Seye Oladejo, the APC mocked Atiku, stating that his political career has been marked by constant desperation and a habit of defecting from one party to another. The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has claimed that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar’s […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The struggle for control of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) intensified on Tuesday as loyalists of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, headed to the Federal High Court in Abuja seeking to overturn the party’s November 15–16 national convention in Ibadan. The faction wants the court to declare the […] Read more
By Wole Olaoye MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas It is not yet doomsday in Nigeria. There is still some chance to rescue us from ourselves, even if the buffeting winds of killings and maimings and outright erasure of human settlements from the surface of the earth have served adequate notice that we are pushing our luck. I […] Read more
By Farooq A. Kperogi MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Today’s Saturday column, one of the most difficult I’ve written in a long time because of the enormous emotional energy dissipated in writing it, finds eerie parallels between the pervasive sense of siege in 2014 Nigeria and now: Nigeria’s Return to the 2014 Nightmare By Farooq A. Kperogi […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas What Caused the VDM and Mr Jollof fight? A full breakdown of the In-flight brawl On the morning of Monday, November 17, 2025, a routine United Nigeria Airlines flight from Asaba to Lagos was transformed into the scene of a viral altercation. Two of Nigeria’s most prominent social media figures, Martins Otse […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas Today’s Saturday column gives a broad context for why Wike’s humiliation by a young naval officer provoked a nationwide effusion of spontaneous joy (and inspired a profusion of memes) even when he might be legally right in his action. Wike’s Weak, Wild, Wicked Week By Farooq A. Kperogi In Nigeria, elite oppression […] Read more
By Ayo Adedoyin MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas For more than a decade, terrorism has turned Nigeria into a nation at war with itself — from Boko Haram’s savagery ravaging communities in the North-East to so-called bandits and kidnappers in the North-West and on to the Fulani-Ethnic Militias attacking the north-central under the guise of farmer-herder narratives. […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The senator, who described the situation as worrisome, also confirmed that the EYN Church, shops and cars were razed by the terrorists in Pemi community, Chibok Local Government Area. Senator Ali Ndume (APC, Borno South) has expressed strong condemnation over the k!lling of four farmers in Askira Uba Local Government Area, Borno […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInGDallas, Texas The Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission (NUPRC) has stated that Project One Million Barrels Initiative, launched in 2024, is to actively ramp up crude oil production by reactivating dormant fields, fast-tracking regulatory approvals, and enhancing operational efficiencies across the upstream value chain. The Commission Chief Executive (CCE), Engr. Gbenga Komolafe, who made […] Read more
