By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 28, 2012 – The foremost African American leader of the 20 th Century, Martin Luther King Jr., having been arrested for leading a protest against racial segregation, wrote from his prison cell in Birmingham, Alabama. It was a letter he addressed to a group of clergymen that […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma|Lagos, Nigeria|March 17, 2012 – The Goodluck Jonathan administration deployed soldiers and tanks in the streets of Lagos. This was not because the city was under siege from an invading enemy army and therefore needed to be defended by the Nigerian armed forces. It was not to quell an insurrection by anarchists and […]
IN response to my earlier article, “Dismantle these Roadblocks”, an irate policeman called me on the phone. The article was on the need to dismantle the police roadblocks across Nigeria because they have failed as a crime fighting strategy. They degenerated from their intended role of crime prevention to cesspools of police corruption, harassment and […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma, Lagos, Nigeria – October 27, 2011 – Over the years, I heard of Reverend Father Ejike Mbaka, especially, about his then long running conflict with Chimaroke Nnamani, the then governor of Enugu State. Lately, for the first time, I listened to a few of his CDs. They are usually a combination of […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma, Lagos, Nigeria – October 10, 2011 – On October 1, 2011, Nigerians celebrated the 51 st anniversary of the Nigerian independence. It was a day marked by the same usual festivities, civic rituals and elaborate speeches by the president, governors and other governing officials. For its part, the news media trumped up […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma, Lagos, Nigeria – October 2, 2011– Just before the 2007 general election, a high ranking official of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in Lagos State suggested that I write an article stating that the then governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, promoted an enabling environment for Igbo businesses to thrive in […]
By Tochukwu Ezukanma, Lagos, Nigeria – Sept. 21, 2011 – My father once sent me on an errand to a professor’s office. That day, I was in an exceptionally good mood because I was with a friend who had managed to get the car keys from his father. With a car at our disposal, we […]
By Tochuckwu Ezukanma, Lagos, Nigeria – Sept 8, 2011 – As we rode from Ikoyi towards 3 rd Mainland Bridge, a friend remarked that this area looks like Washington, DC. Yes, it looks like the area outside of Washington, DC, leading into Crystal City, Virginia. But then, it is all about looks. Nigerians are obsessed […]
This news from Germany is really disturbing. Why is it that our leaders make us laughing objects before the international community and they will turn around to accuse us, the poor and voiceless masses? This accusation from “The Voice Baden Württemberg” in Germany that most Nigerian refugees are deported without proper identification or procedure is […]
Governor Abdul’aziz Yari Abubakar of Zamfara State is at loggerheads with his predecessor, Alhaji Aliyu Shinkafi. Yari lamented that he inherited a whopping N42billion debt without any handover note. Shinkafi, however, insisted few days before he left office that he left substantial amount of money that would finish all ongoing important capital projects in the […]
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