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 […]
Senate-MultiChoice rift diversionary
THE simmering rift between the Senate and pay-TV service provider, MultiChoice Nigeria, is both unnecessary and diversionary. It is akin to a man whose house is on fire but who is busy giving rats a chase of their lives. At best, it is misplaced priority. But it could be something worse – very petty ego […]
Senate-MultiChoice rift diversionary
Senate-MultiChoice rift diversionary
This country has lost it
THOSE who want to be politically correct may continue to play the ostrich, pretending that all is well. But all cannot be well in a country that has lost its soul. Nigeria is a country where the attitudes and feelings of love and respect for human beings have been completely eroded.
Why did Buhari weep in 2011?
ON April 14, 2011, two days before the April 16, a presidential election which President Goodluck Jonathan won on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, the then opposition candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, who contested on the platform of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, and lost, organised the grand finale of his presidential campaign at the International Conference Centre, Abuja.
What, exactly, do Nigerians want from Ndigbo?
By Ikechukwu Amaechi THE usual refrain on the lips of Nigerian leaders, particularly those who successfully prosecuted the brutal civil war against the breakaway Biafran Republic is the indivisibility of the country. One of them, General Ibrahim Babangida, in an interview with Arise Television on August 7, 2021 to mark his 80th birthday anniversary, put […]
All hail Amaechi, the Dan Amanar Daura
By Ikechukwun Amaechi ON Saturday, February 5, 2022, all roads will lead to Daura, President Muhammadu Buhari’s hometown, where the Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, will be turbaned as the Dan Amanar Daura (trusted son of Daura) by the Emir, Alhaji Umar Farouk Umar. Coming in this political silly season, it is one chieftaincy title that […]
Nigeria and 2023 consequential elections
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ‘ELECTIONS have consequences.” Those three words, first uttered by former US president, Barack Obama, during a meeting with congressional Republicans just three days into his first presidential term in January 2009, should be the catchphrase of the current political times in Nigeria. If Nigerians are serious about redeeming the fading promise of their […]
So, Supreme Court can reverse self?
SO, the Supreme Court can reconsider an earlier decision in the face of a more compelling evidence? That was the question that concentrated many minds on Friday when the news broke that Nigeria’s apex court had reversed its earlier dismissal of an appeal by GTBank against a N2.4 billion judgement given in favour of Innoson […]
2023: Shouldn’t PDP reward fidelity?
By Ikechukwu Amaechi FINALLY, the political silly season is upon us. Every discerning Nigerian knew it would come sooner than later. We are all involved because in his book, “Politics, a Treatise on Government”, Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, posited that man is a “political animal” being a social creature with the power of speech and moral […]
Under Uzodimma, Imo has gone to the dogs
By Ikechukwu Amaechi LET me be clear from the onset. I am neither a fan of Senator Rochas Okorocha, former governor of Imo, nor his son-in-law, Uche Nwosu, who he wanted to impose on the state as his successor. Okorocha knows that for a fact because I told him to his face in Owerri that […]
