Osun election: Matters arising, by Ikechukwu Amaechi
Nigerians are an excitable lot. It is, therefore, not surprising that the outcome of the August 15 off-cycle Osun governorship election is generating so much buzz. To be sure, the outcome calls for celebration because for the first time in a long while, the will of the people prevailed in an election. And it prevailed not because […]
Buhari, Aso Rock’s non-essential staff, evacuated to London
By Ikechukwu Amaechi IN his kairotic moment at the dispatch box in the British House of Commons on January 31, 2022, Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour Party since 2020, gave the then British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, a full dressing down. It was a remarkable speech. Johnson “is a man without shame… damaging […]
Frank Nweke’s covenant with Ndi-Enugu
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ON Saturday, October 15, Mr. Frank Nweke Jr., former Minister of Information and the Enugu State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, unveiled his social contract with the people, titled, “A Manifesto for rebuilding the Enugu of our dreams.” The 56-page document came with an unalloyed pledge: “My team […]
Why Buhari must let Nnamdi Kanu go
By Ikechukwu Amaechi I AM not a lawyer. But in writing this article, I spoke to learned friends who, in unanimity, held that President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has no legal beam to hang its jaundiced interpretation of the Appeal Court judgement that discharged the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, of […]
Ekwueme, five years after
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ON February 2, 2018, the remains of Nigeria’s first democratically elected vice president, Dr. Alex Ifeanyichukwu Ekwueme, were committed to mother earth in his ancestral home – Oko, Orumba North LGA, Anambra State. When he died on November 19, 2017, he was 85 years, an age many would consider old. Nonetheless, he died […]
Enough of political brigandage in Lagos
By Ikechukwu Amaechi A HIGHLY disturbing video surfaced online on Sunday, October 2, which should give every well-meaning Nigerian cause for concern. Two supporters of the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr. Peter Obi, claimed in the video that they escaped being lynched at the Oshodi motor park, by a whisker. It was sheer providence […]
