As Tinubu plays God, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
Listening to President Bola Tinubu’s response to the plea of Nigerian Catholic Bishops that he should make the yoke of Nigerians lighter, I couldn’t help but remember the Biblical story of King Rehoboam in 2 Chronicles 10:1-15. After the death of King Solomon, Rehoboam, his son, went to Shechem to be crowned king and the whole […]
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 […]
COVID-19, Gov Bello and limits of demagoguery
By Ikechukwu Amaechi KOGI State governor, Yahaya Bello, is an interesting character. At 45 (he was born on June 18, 1975), he is presently the youngest state governor in Nigeria. When he assumed office on January 27, 2016, after he was declared governor following the death of the winner of the 2015 Kogi governorship election, […]
