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 […]
Nigeria and its unserious, unproductive, holiday-craving population, By Ikechukwu Amaechi
But as bad as this picture is, it is not even the full story. In most Muslim-dominated states, Fridays have equally been appropriated as part of the weekend work-free days. Where it is not expressly so, workers at best work half-day, leaving for home after the Jumu’ah Prayer (Friday prayer).
In Owerri, Nigerian editors repudiated the idiocy of identity politics, By Ikechukwu Amaechi
It is no longer news that the just concluded national bi-annual convention of the Nigerian Guild of Editors, NGE, which held in Owerri, Imo State capital, produced Eze Anaba, editor of the Vanguard newspaper as the new president. In the next two years, he and 15 other officers will run the affairs of the elite […]
Dame Ihedioha: Mother whose heart was her children’s schoolroom, By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Outlining the virtues of a Godly mother, Henry Ward Beecher, the 19th-century American Congregationalist clergyman and social reformer wrote: “The mother’s heart is the child’s schoolroom.” On Friday, June 16, the mortal remains of one of such mothers, Dame Dorothy Nsonma Ihedioha, will be laid to rest in the pastoral Aronta community, Mbutu, Aboh Mbaise, […]
Hadi Sirika and the fraud called Nigeria Air, By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Some people believe that Nigeria, our dear country, is a criminal enterprise. Those who perceive the political ideology construct – patriotism – from the prism of the three wise monkeys, a Japanese pictorial maxim which embodies the proverbial principle of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil” aver that such a portrayal is […]
Buhari, the man who loathes Nigeria
By Ikechukwu Amaechi Ordinarily, I wouldn’t have bothered commenting on former President Muhammadu Buhari, the man who, rather than build, spent eight years in power dismantling Nigeria, brick by brick because for me, his voyage into oblivion is good riddance. After Buhari’s eight ruinous years, Nigeria really needed a breath of fresh air. Whether the […]
