Posted by admin
American Politics, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, January 28th, 2018
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | January 28, 2018- A Mozambiquean professor at Howard University once summed it up in his own words, “Nigerians have very low morals”. Despite our low morals and its attendant sleaze and moral squalor, we long to be portrayed in the most favorable light. To remain wedded to unethical and amoral […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Biafra, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, November 3rd, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | November 3, 2017 – If you look into the mirror and see dirt on your face, you clean your face and leave the mirror alone. Even, if you choose to ignore the dirt on your face, as revealed by the mirror, you still do not bother the mirror. […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, October 15th, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | October 15, 2017 – In one of his mournful songs, Sorrow, Tears and Blood, that tireless nonconformist, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, sang: everybody run, run, run; everybody scatter, scatter; police de come, army de come; confusion everywhere; somebody nearly died, somebody just died; ten minutes later, police don go away, […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Biafra, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, August 13th, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | August 13, 2017 – A lady from Akwa Ibom derisively talked about the map depicting the frontiers of Indigenous People of Biafra’s (IPOB) Biafra. The map placed her state within the boundaries of Biafra. The lady thought it was comical, and facetiously, she added, “If I am now […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Saturday, July 1st, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | July 1, 2017 – The TV footage showed the two leaders of the National Assembly, the President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki and the Speaker of the House, Yakubu Dogara exited Aso Rock. They were resplendent in their light-colored agbadas. The trappings and pomp of their powers and […]
Posted by admin
Abia, Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, State News, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, June 9th, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | June 9, 2017 – Media hype is an awkward cachet of Nigerian public life. Not surprisingly, the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), in its media hype, indict, try and convict suspects in the media, and then, with its shoddy investigations and sloppy prosecution, loses the case in […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Sunday, April 9th, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma / Lagos, Nigeria / April 9, 2017 – Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works, Housing and Power, toured the Southwest geopolitical zone between Thursday, 23rd of March, 2017 and Saturday, 25th of March, 2017, and inspected ongoing and completed federal projects and facilities under his supervision. Traveling by road, he left Abuja […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Monday, March 20th, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 20, 2017 – As I drove home from a party at about 2 am, I saw a lady standing by the roadside. I recognized her. She is a Nigerian, a Fashion Designer, known for her exquisite designs and good tailoring in the Nigerian community in the Washington, DC […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Biafra, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Wednesday, March 8th, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 8, 2017 – At a point during the civil war, my family lived at Ahiara, Mbaise. Then, Ahiara was a rural community tucked almost equidistant between two sleepy, little towns: Owerri and Umuahia. The presence of a military hospital, a detachment of Army Supply and Transport, a […]
Posted by admin
Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Tochukwu Ezukanma
Friday, March 3rd, 2017
By Tochukwu Ezukanma | Lagos, Nigeria | March 3, 2017 – After the killings in the January and July coups and that unsurpassed butchery of Igbo civilians in northern Nigeria, there was a desperate need for peace in the country. In search of peace, the regional governors, David Ejoor, Usman Katsina, Robert Adebayo and Chukwuemeka […]
