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Articles, Columnists, Ikechukwu Amaechi, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Saturday, October 1st, 2016
By Ikechukwu Amaechi | NNP | Oct. 1, 2016 – I have two confessions to make from the outset. I am an incurable optimist. I am a firm believer in the maxim that no matter how dark a tunnel may appear to be, there will always be some ray of light at the end. Of […]
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Monday, September 5th, 2016
By Ikechukwu Amaechi | NNP | Sept. 5, 2016 – Nigeria is a huge amusement park. All you need do to have fun is sit back and watch the theatrics of the political gladiators. It is God’s doing, though. Our ability to laugh at our folly and the fact that there are so many clowns out […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ikechukwu Amaechi, Muhammadu Buhari (1983-85), NNP Columnists, Presidency
Sunday, July 24th, 2016
By Ikechukwu Amaechi | NNP | July 24, 2016 – There is hardly any Nigerian who is not in a state of despair right now. Since Muhammadu Buhari was sworn in as president last year, despondency has enveloped the nation. Disappointment makes the misery worse. In the build-up to the 2015 elections, Buhari was cast […]
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Articles, Columnists, Enugu, Ikechukwu Amaechi, NNP Columnists, State News
Friday, June 3rd, 2016
By Ikechukwu Amaechi | Lagos, Nigeria | June 3, 2016 – There seems to be some quiet in the South East after the national uproar that greeted the massacring of over 50 indigenes of Ukpabi Nimbo community in Uzo-Uwani Local Government Area of Enugu State by Fulani herdsmen. There seems to be some quiet in […]
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
By Ikechukwu Amaechi | NNP | December 9, 2015 – Three years ago, I travelled to the United States for the annual convention of Mbaise people living there. The convention, which is usually rotated among the states in the U.S., held in Dallas, Texas, that year. Former Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Ikechukwu Amaechi, NNP Columnists
Friday, September 5th, 2014
By Ikechukwu Amaechi | NNP | Sept. 5, 2014 -There is no politically discerning Nigerian who has not heard the news. Nuhu Ribadu, former Chairman of anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the presidential candidate of the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in 2011, has defected to the ruling […]