2027: Vote ‘right’ or be banished? By Ikechukwu Amaechi
As should be expected in this political silly season, politicians will maximise the window to test wild narratives and launch personal attacks aimed at distracting voters from the substantive issues that confront them. There is nothing particularly wrong with that as long as such antics are within the ambit of the law. But most Nigerian politicians like […]
In Canada, Kelechi Madu soars high like an eagle
By Ikechukwu Amaechi THREE years ago, precisely on April 30, 2019, Nigerian-born Kelechi Madu, popularly called Kaycee by acquaintances, made history in his adopted country, Canada, when he took oath of office as Minister of Municipal Affairs of the Province of Alberta, with the third largest portfolio of over $3.7 billion. But that was only […]
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 […]
