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 […]
Still on Lai Mohammed’s treason allegation
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ON Tuesday, April 4, Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, did in the U.S. what he knows how best to do – fib. Mohammed, in Washington DC on official engagements with some international media organisations, including the Washington Post, Voice of America, Associated Press and Foreign Policy Magazine, accused the Labour […]
Hypocrisy of the self-styed Nigerian progressives
By Ikechukwu Amaechi A FRIEND of mine sent me a text message the other day: “Ikechukwu, please stop this fight. This election has been won and lost and it is high time we moved forward. Lamenting over spilt milk is an exercise in futility and if you are close to Peter Obi, please tell him […]
Requiem for Nigeria’s democracy
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ON March 18, 2023, some Nigerians, incurable optimists I must say, still went out to cast their votes in the governorship and Houses of Assembly elections after the presidential and National Assembly elections fiasco of February 25, believing that Nigeria is still redeemable. Well, I am not one of them. I used […]
Toxicity of Tinubu’s Lagos politics
By Ikechukwu Amaechi AS I reflect on the happenings in Lagos State since the February 25 Presidential and National Assembly elections, I cannot help but see the spectre of the 1994 Rwanda genocide unfolding before our very eyes. In the years leading up to the 1994 genocide, the Hutu-led government used all its propaganda machinery to […]
Peter Obi: As Soludo accepts the judgement of history
By Ikechukwu Amaechi IN his November 14, 2022 political takedown of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Professor Chukwuma Soludo, Anambra State governor, wrote: “As history beckons, my conscience and sense of duty to my people dictate that I should never be silent. I will happily accept the judgment of history for […]
