Let’s Stop Lying to Ourselves — By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | May 6, 2014 – Nigeria is an extremely corrupt country. With the exception for an eccentric few, the generality of Nigerians are corrupt. Corruption has permeated and pervaded every Nigerian institution and every spectrum of her social life. It has rendered every of her institutions dysfunctional, and it […]

Death at the Stadia: Enough is Enough – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 18, 2014 – The initial response of the Minister of Interior, Abba Moro, to the death of twenty one young job applicants, including four pregnant women, at the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment test, at different stadia in the country epitomized the government of Goodluck Jonathan. His earlier […]

Still on the Centennial Awards – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | April 12, 2014 – The Nigerian centenary celebration was to honor hundred persons, some, post-hummus. The number of the award recipients was deliberately pegged at one hundred so that it will conform exactly to the number of years of Nigerian existence. A number of questions ran through my […]

Saro Wiwo Should Have Been There – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 22, 2014 – There are some Nigerians, a select few, of both living and dead that exceptionally distinguished themselves in politics, business and the professions and in acts of courage, sacrifice for the public good, selfless services to humanity, etc; and thus, deserved to be honored. The […]

Sanusi: Whistleblower or Hypocrite? – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 09, 2014 – The feverish disputation over the suspension of the Governor of the Central Bank of Nigerian (CBN), Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, by President Goodluck Jonathan dramatizes a major problem of Nigerian politics. Nigerian political parties lack ideological and philosophical anchors. Without ideological and philosophical differences between […]

Rejecting Tribal Politics in Anambra State – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma, | Lagos, Nigeria | Nov. 10, 2013 – Two days before the Anambara gubernatorial election of January 2010, I was at the Onitsha market. In my discussion with a number of traders, I told them that Chris Ngige, the gubernatorial candidate for Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) or Chukwuma Soludo, the candidate […]

The Nigerian House of Boxersentatives – By Tochukwu Ezakanma

By Tochukwu Ezakanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 27, 2013 – Over the years, Nigerians got use to members of the Nigerian House of Representatives fighting themselves in the hallowed chambers of lawmaking. Essentially, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with legislators shoving and punching each other in the legislative House. Undoubtedly, it is indecorous. But […]

No to Religious Intolorance – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 12, 2013 – I was very impressed by this self-confident and independent-minded 16 year old girl who engaged two pastors in a spirited argument. She was born of Christian parents but converted to Islam. She accompanied her mother to church. And after the church service, the pastors […]

Marching on the Centers of Power – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 2, 2013 – Nigeria, power is deployed as a ruthless enemy of the people. It remains a tool of an evil oligarchy wielded at the detriment of the people. At the economic strangulation and social degradation of the masses, it panders to the arrogance of power, inordinate […]

Looking Beyond the Politics of Deportation – By Tochukwu Ezukanma

By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 13, 2013 -Recently, Nigerians were riveted by the controversy over the deportation of Igbo destitute to Anambara State by the Lagos State government. The governor of Anambara, Peter Obi,vociferously denounced Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State for that rounding up, transporting and dumping of Igbo destitute at […]

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