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 […]
Insecurity: Have the chickens finally come home to roost?
By Ikechukwu Amaechi I AM always amused when some people pretend that they are surprised at the gory turn of events in Nigeria. Why? It was obvious to every discerning, dispassionate observer of Nigeria’s recent trajectory that the country will come to a pretty pass sooner than later. Yes, some delusional political leaders were acting as […]
Putting Nigeria together again will be hard
By Ikechukwu Amaechi CAN Nigeria ever be put together again? This is the question that concentrated my mind as I watched the tragi-comedy of the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Idris Wase, shutting down a petition by some Nigerians in the Diaspora during plenary last Thursday. I must admit that there are die-hard […]
When an image maker becomes an image wrecker
By Ikechukwu Amaechi Last week, my friend and former colleague, Oguwike Nwachuku, responded to my article penultimate Thursday titled, “Uzodimma: The governor as a quisling.” Typically, Oguwike, media aide to Governor Hope Uzodimma, attacked my person, making baseless claims on what he described as my political affiliations, motive for my writings and presumed hatred for […]
Senator Adeyemi owes Ikpeazu, Abians an apology
By Ikechukwu Amaechi IT was the legendary Afrobeat maestro, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, who, in one of his smash hits “Beasts of No Nation”, told us about “animal talk”. The song was the first Fela wrote to critical acclaim after serving 20 months of a five-year prison sentence on dubious foreign currency smuggling charges during the military regime […]
From Kankara to Kagara, hypocrisy defines government
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ANYONE who watches the trending video of heavily armed bandits taunting Nigeria and its doddering leadership and emotionally assaulting passengers of the Niger State Transport Authority, NSTA, bus without feeling sorry for the country must be subhuman. The victims were abducted in the Yakila district of the Rafi Local Government Area of […]
The governor as a quisling
By Ikechukwu Amaechi THE idea of democracy is straightforward. “Democracy is government of the people for the people and by the people,” said Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, a definition that borrows heavily from its meaning in Greek – “rule by the (simple) people.” Lincoln simply amplified the essence of the […]
Deodorising evil in the name of peace
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ISLAMIC cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi is a man with a lot of clout in his neck of the woods. A retired army officer and a medical doctor who decided to be a full-time Islamic preacher, his people put much stock in whatever he says. So, when he embarked on a self-assigned mission […]
Buhari’s base instincts bear eloquent testimony to his nepotism
By Ikechukwu Amaechi ON January 29, 2021, Aso Rock once again raised an alarm that some unnamed Nigerians were plotting to wage a campaign of calumny against President Muhammadu Buhari. Femi Adesina, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, said a plan was afoot to portray the president as pandering to ethnic and primordial tendencies […]
Open letter to IGP Adamu on Chukwuemeka’s murder
By Ikechukwu Amaechi I DECRIED here, penultimate week, the murder of Chukwuemeka Anichukwuegbo, an industrial physicist, whose life was cut short at 33 in Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. Emeka, an orphan, was an employee of Diversey West Africa Limited when he was killed on November 28, 2020. His corpse was dumped in an unregistered, private morgue whose […]
Even God is tired of Nigerians’ bestiality
By Ikechukwu Amaechi When Chukwuemeka Anichukwuegbo was transferred from Lagos to Ijebu-Ode in 2019 with a promotion to boot by his company, Diversey West Africa Limited, it was a dream come true for him and his siblings. He was aged 33 at the time. His had been a life of struggle being the second of […]
