Let Air Peace and Allen Onyema be! By Ikechukwu Amaechi
On Sunday, May 24, Air Peace officially commenced direct flights to Barbados, one of the 13 independent sovereign nations in the Caribbean. It was historic, not only for the organisation but also Nigeria where good news has become as scarce as hen’s teeth. Henceforth, the airline will operate a nine-hour twice-monthly scheduled flights from Lagos […]
Road trips in Nigeria, crime against self, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
When the Benin Bypass was commissioned in 2002 in the first term of Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s presidency, the idea was to make the life of motorists less harrowing. Before the road, built at a cost of N10.2 billion, was opened for public use, cutting through the Benin City traffic gridlock was always a nightmare. The 24-kilometre […]
Wike’s path to perdition, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
Former governor of Rivers State and Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, is an aggressive person, always exhibiting hostile behaviour in his relationships with others. At every point, he wants to dominate, harm or violate others’ rights without any iota of regard for their feelings. But it is worse now. Today, he is lashing […]
Nigeria’s road in 2026 will be rough, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
Today is January 1, 2026 and if you are reading this, it means only one thing: you are alive, one of those who survived 2025, a year that turned out, to borrow late Queen Elizabeth II’s Latin phrase, an “annus horribilis” (horrible year). Last year was dreadful for many Nigerians – a year of significant personal and […]
N500m Amano Obohia Trust Fund: An idea whose time has come, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
On Boxing Day – Friday, December 26 – Amano Obohia community, Ahiazu-Mbaise LGA, Imo State, will be bursting at the seams with people as sons and daughters, together with their friends and well-wishers, converge on the premises of the Secondary Technical School Obohia to launch a N500 million Trust Fund. The date is significant in two […]
Like Lucy Kibaki, like Oluremi Tinubu, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
At the time Lucy Kibaki, wife of Mwai Kibaki, the third President of Kenya, died at the Bupa Cromwell Hospital, South West London, on April 26, 2016, aged 75, she had the unenviable reputation of being Kenya’s grouchiest First Lady. In the ten years her husband was in office (2002-2013), she was, in the words of […]
