By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / Feb. 25, 2017 – Long ago, a smallish female student in my class was very angry at the professor. She argued that the professor should not have marked her wrong because the question he asked was an opinion question, and that in her answer she stated her opinion. […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 27, 2016 – One of the legacies of colonialism in Nigeria is the inferiority complex of the Nigerian society. The justification for colonialism (an unjustifiable usurpation) demanded myth–making that extolled the superiority of the colonial master and his ways of life and denigrated everything about the indigenous people: their culture, […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | July 6, 2016 – After two months of closure, the University of Port Harcourt reopened on Sunday, the 19th of June, 2016. The school was closed down following a student protest against an unfair academic policy: the insistence of the school authorities that students still owing tuitions will not […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | June 24, 2016 – We were recently riveted by allegations of sexual misconducts leveled against three Nigerian lawmakers by the United States Ambassador to Nigeria, James Entwistle. In a letter to the Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, he accused one of the ten members of the […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | February 23, 2016 – There can be no freedom without the law. While it is the law that limits our freedom, it is also the law that guarantees our freedom. When there is no law to limit one’s freedom, there will be no law to guarantee his freedom. […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / Feb. 5, 2016 –Haunted by the systematic atrocities of war, the American Civil War hero, General William Sherman, in a speech, shouted, “I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | January 10, 2016 – With the ravages the first attempt by the Igbo and other peoples of Eastern Nigeria to declare their region an independent country of Biafra wrought on Eastern Nigeria, especially, Igbo land, it is perplexing that some Igbo are still agitating for Biafra. The previous […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | November 26, 2015 – At a church event, a then serving president said that he honored the church’s invitation because the pastor of the church routinely prayed for him and e-mailed him the transcript of the prayers. To pray for your president is magnificent, but to email him […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | November 14, 2015 – Nigeria lost her innocence that day Chukwuma Nzeogwu and his band of dilettante revolutionaries, in an attempt to shoot their way into power, murdered the innocent in cold blood. It was an abhorrent act that should have offended the sensibility of every Nigerian and […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 26, 2015 – The first time I watched Fela perform was in the mid-1970s at the Enugu Campus of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. Then, he was lusty and nimble. He sprang across the stage, as he danced, sang and played both the piano and tenor saxophone. […]
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