Fayose’s insufferable political rascality, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
Nigeria is at a crossroads – politically, economically and socially. There is no easy way out of the bind. You believe President Bola Tinubu’s preachment of ‘Renewed Hope’ at your own peril because blind trust is always a risky proposition. And that is what the administration wants Nigerians to do – trust blindly. They want […]
What Edo poll says about Nigeria’s democracy
By Ikechukwu Amaechi IDEALLY, voters in Edo State should decide on Saturday, September 19 whether to retain Godwin Obaseki as governor for a second term or hand the helmsmanship to Osagie Ize-Iyamu of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Obaseki recently defected from the APC to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Fourteen candidates are on the […]
Ndigbo, scorned in Nigeria, making waves globally
By Ikechukwu Amaechi TWO Nigerians of Igbo extraction recently pulled off spectacular world-class feats that exemplify possibilities in an environment that rewards hard work and merit. In July, Leeds Trinity University in the United Kingdom appointed Professor Charles Egbu vice-chancellor to take over from Professor Margaret House on November 1. Egbu has been everything in […]
NBA’s standout rebuke to el-Rufai
By Ikechukwu Amaechi NASIR el-Rufai is hurting. Badly. He is angry. Very, very angry. It serves him right. The Kaduna State governor is beside himself with rage because he was booted out of the 60th Annual General Conference of the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA, which kicked off virtually on Wednesday. He is hurting because he […]
Nasir el-Rufai and the carnage in Southern Kaduna
NIGERIANS should not forget the real issue in the interminable Southern Kaduna crisis, despite the diversion caused by the invitation of Obadiah Malaifa by the Department of State Services, DSS.
Democracy: Buhari still does not get it
By Ikechukwu Amaechi PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s disclosure recently that he could have used the army and police to overrun some Northeast governors elected on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, didn’t come as a surprise to discerning Nigerians, unless those in denial. It simply betrayed a mindset in eternal romance with dictatorship. […]
Insecurity: As Buhari goes around in circles
WHY is President Muhammadu Buhari going around in circles was the question that concentrated my mind on Tuesday after the latest security council meeting circus in Abuja.
Buhari, el-Rufai should be blamed for Southern Kaduna bloodbaths
In the last one month, Southern Kaduna has been in the news for very atrocious reasons – harvest of deaths. On Friday, July 24, ten people were murdered in cold blood in Zipak village
Revisiting Abaribe’s call for Buhari’s resignation
By Ikechukwu Amaechi SIX months ago, an uproar in the Senate reverberated across the country when Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe called on President Muhammadu Buhari to resign. Abaribe, Senate Minority Leader, made the call during plenary on January 29 when the Red Chamber of the National Assembly, NASS, discussed a motion seeking the restructuring of Nigeria’s […]
Magugate won’t burnish Buhari’s fancy anti-graft epaulette
By Ikechukwu Amaechi EACH time there is a slide in Nigeria’s standing on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, CPI, in the last five years, government dismisses it as an act of mischief. That is understandable. President Muhammadu Buhari rode to power in 2015 on his anti-corruption horse after successfully branding former President Goodluck Jonathan the […]
What Edo 2020 reveals about Nigeria’s democracy
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ON September 19, Edo electorate will perform their civic duty of deciding, in the words of David Easton, the late Canadian-born American political scientist, who will authoritatively allocate the state’s values in the next four years. This exercise is important particularly in a representative democracy. Unfortunately, Nigeria’s democracy is like a sailboat […]
