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Tochukwu Ezukanma, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists
Monday, July 29th, 2024
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | July 29, 2024 – Just before the 2023 presidential election, Mrs. Oluremi Tinubu was at her oratorical best. Like a Casanova wooing a credulous damsel, she was suave and charming. She told her audience that “my husband and I” are already wealthy. And, as such, in running for […]
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Tochukwu Ezukanma, Anambra, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, State News
Thursday, July 11th, 2024
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | July 11, 2024 – On a bus ride from Enugu to Awka, I sat next to a lady, a high ranking civil servant in the Anambra State government. She was on her way to work at Awka. She is one of the many civil servants that did not […]
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Tuesday, September 26th, 2023
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | September 26, 2023 – With his Emi lokan bombast, Bola Ahmed Tinubu cut the image of a vainglorious megalomaniac, and struck many Nigerians as boastful and offensively self-assertive. As president, on his return from his first foreign trip, his motorcade from the airport to his Lagos residence counted […]
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Air Force, Armed Forces, Army, Articles, Columnists, Navy, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, September 16th, 2023
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | September 16, 2023 – The earliest vestiges of democracy can be traced to the Greek city states. After the Greek lost their independence to Macedonia, democracy disappeared. After more than 2,000 years, it reappeared, about 250 years ago, at the cradle of modern democracy, the United States of America. […]
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Tuesday, August 8th, 2023
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | August 08, 2023 – Most Nigerians were horror-struck by the All Progressive Congress {APC} and Independent National Election Commission {INEC} broad day light electoral banditry that bestowed victory on the loser of the February 25th, 2023 presidential election, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, and declared him the president-elect. However, […]
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Articles, Columnists, Labour Party (LP), NNP Columnists, Party Politics, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Monday, June 19th, 2023
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | June 19, 2023 – Peter Obi won the hearts of the Nigerian masses with the force of his sincerity and the resonance of his message. Consequently, Nigerians rallied to his presidential standard; and elected him the president of Nigeria. But in a macabre electoral maneuver, the Independent National Election Commission (INEC) declared […]
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Wednesday, May 24th, 2023
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | May 24, 2023 – After the presidential election, for days, I was distressed, totally flustered. I was distraught because in a clear contest between light and darkness, Nigerians chose the light, but the forces of greed, insensitivity and criminality subverted the will of the people; they are scheming to […]
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Saturday, April 29th, 2023
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 29, 2023 – It has been said that there is no provision for an interim government in the Nigerian constitution. Interestingly, a constitution is never a totally finished product. Thus, it is not static, but dynamic: it continues to evolve. In its dynamism, it adjusts to accommodate constitutional […]
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Articles, Columnists, Lagos, NNP Columnists, State News, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, March 18th, 2023
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 17, 2023 | One of the most egregious political blunders in Nigerian history is the election of the All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Mohammedu Buhari, as the president of Nigeria. However, Nigerians decided to patiently wait out his presidency. Lamentably, as the expiration of his presidency approached, […]
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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, South-East, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Monday, March 6th, 2023
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 6, 2023 – I am motivated by reason and conviction. Thus, I am a doubting Thomas, “who always insisted on an examination with his own hands”. My “examination with (my) own hands” of the tempestuously emotive issue, Biafra, is revealing. Biafranism is an exercise in futility. However, I […]