Teaching Immorality in Schools – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

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By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | May 15, 2013 | If anyone had told me a few years ago that a time will come in Nigeria when the authorities will approve the teaching of sexual immorality as a subject in junior and secondary schools, I would have thought that the person had lost his [...]

Patience Jonathan, The Inimitable Dame! – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

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By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 26, 2012 – It is a classic case of ‘One Week, One Controversy’!  And the inimitable Dame, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has been in the news again. She hardly disappoints. Perhaps, before your read this piece, Mrs. Jonathan would have returned from Germany where she had gone “to [...]

Robert Mugabe: The West is in Love Again! – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

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By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 11, 2012 – Two interesting incidents that played out on the international scene recently clearly underlined the profound confusion of values that has crept into Western policies and attitudes towards President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Late in May, the United Nation’s World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) announced the [...]

President, govs to lose immunity – NASS seeks their trial in criminal cases

State Governors Sylva of Bayelsa State, Uduaghan of Delta State and Amaechi of Rivers State, meet at the South-South Summit to discuss the 2011 presidential election in Nigeria’s Port Harcourt

If the push by lawmakers sails through in a fresh amendment of the 1999 Constitution, the President, his deputy, all governors and their deputies may lose immunity from prima-facie criminal cases. Section 308 of the 1999 Constitution presently confers immunity on the President and governors. The extant section 308 (a) states: “No civil or criminal [...]

Nigerian Universities and Unhelpful Policies – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

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By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Lagos, Nigeria, March 12, 2012- Great expectations are usually piled on our universities as very essential intellectual factories for the production of reliable human resources for achieving our lofty dreams and aspirations as a people. That is what it should be. Every year, the universities are expected to give the country quality [...]

The Return of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

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By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Lagos, Nigeria – Jan. 29, 2012- When President Goodluck Jonathan appointed Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Finance Minister and also named her the “Coordinating Minister of the Economy (CME),” I was greatly surprised that several Nigerians appeared to share the president’s rather lofty expectations that she was coming with fresh, workable ideas to [...]

The Return of Newt Gingrich- By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

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By Ugo chukwu Ejinkeonye, Lagos, Nigeria – May 21, 2011 – Last Wednesday (May 11, 2011), Newt Gingrich, the 58th Speaker of the United States Congress (1995-1999), but who is better known for championing a historic opposition against President Bill Clinton in the 1990s, and, perhaps, also, for leading a team of conservatives to win [...]

How to Become a Nigerian Governor – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

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By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Lagos, Nigeria – April 17, 2011 – It is quite possible that before now not many people have taken time to seriously consider it, but there is no doubt that governing a state in Nigeria has over the years been reduced to one of the most unduly simplified jobs in town, which [...]

Desperate Women & Their Obscene Fashion

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By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Lagos, Nigeria – Jan 4, 2011 – Nothing best underscores the raw, primitive desperation clearly gripping and saturating the tender hearts of countless ladies today than the brutal conventionalisation obscene fashion seems to have rudely appropriated in society. A desperate person is always the easiest victim of primitive emotions and thoughtless actions. [...]

How I Joined The Nigerian Ruling (Eating) Class -A Rejoinder

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By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Lagos, Nigeria – Dec. 31, 2010 Dear Ugochukwu, I thoroughly enjoyed myself reading the piece you published last week, captioned, “How I Became A Prominent Lady,” written by one of the  greatest and most patriotic daughters of our great nation, a highly placed and well-respected lady who, incidentally, is a very close [...]

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