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Friday, June 9th, 2017
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye _ Lagos, Nigeria | June 9, 2017 – When President Muhammadu Buhari announced the people he has selected to occupy some of the most strategic positions in his regime, there was understandable uproar across the country. Nigerians looked at the profile of these fellows and wondered what could have motivated their choice, […]
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Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
By Ugochukwi Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | March 8, 2017 – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye Enugu State governor, Mr. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, has enjoyed a rather impressive portrayal in the media since he assumed office. I have seen several articles parroting his “marvelous achievements” and some of the articles have even found their way to my email box for […]
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Monday, October 26th, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | October 26, 2015 – The brutal abduction early last week of Chief Olu Falae, a former secretary to the government of the federation (SGF) and former finance minister, by a band of suspected Fulani herdsmen has once again brought to the fore the often tragic excesses of these […]
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Sunday, September 20th, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 20, 2015 – On May 31, 2015, ‘World No Tobacco Day’ (WNTD) was once again marked across the world. The theme for this year’s campaign is: “Stop Illicit Trade Of Tobacco Products.” First observed in 1987 following a motion passed by a cabinet of the World Health Assembly (WHA) which […]
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Monday, September 7th, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 7, 2015 – Strange and worrisome as the decision by the Buhari administration to limit its ongoing probe of public officers and institutions to the era of the regime it took over from is, not a few Nigerians are encouraged by the fact that a bold attempt […]
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Articles, Columnists, First Ladies, Hajiha Aisha Buhari, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Sunday, August 30th, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | August 30, 2015 – When I saw the headline in a national newspaper last weekend indicating that the federal government had “abolished the office of First Lady,” I hastened to read the report thinking that President Muhammadu Buhari has finally gratified the wishes of many Nigerians by terminating […]
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Saturday, August 22nd, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | August 22, 2015 – If former President Goodluck Jonathan had succeeded in solving the ever-worsening electricity crisis in Nigeria, he would have left office last May as one of Nigeria’s greatest leaders. And that is, assuming that singular feat would not have been able to reelect him by deflating the […]
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | July 20, 2015 – The recent N400 billion bailout approved for the states by President Muhammadu Buhari to offset the backlog of salary owed to civil servants would certainly bring immense relief to the affected workers and their families. It is difficult to imagine how these Nigerians were […]
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Monday, July 6th, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | July 6, 2015 – Nigerians are very good at crowning false heroes. Just open a Nigerian newspaper you can find near you and see how many people that are recklessly described on its pages as “credible” politicians, “honest and selfless” Nigerians, or worse, the “conscience of the nation.” […]
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Friday, June 5th, 2015
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | June 4, 2015 –Now that the campaigns and elections are over and the winners have been sworn in at both the federal and state levels, I think that the best next step for us now is to hurriedly put aside the convenient, barefaced lie that any political party […]
