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Articles, Columnists, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Wednesday, August 16th, 2023
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | August 16, 2023 – “What luck for rulers that men do not think.” ― Adolf Hitler Many Nigerians are stuck with zero experience of what it means to live in a decently run society. Laden with a long history of mostly inept, insensitive and less-than patriotic leaders, it seems abnormal […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Sunday, October 16th, 2022
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | October 16, 2022 – Now, let’s face it: there can only be one reason why the industrial action embarked upon by the teachers of Nigeria’s public universities since February 14 has been allowed to waste a whole seven months of the academic pursuit of many youths, and, indeed, their […]
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Articles, Columnists, House, Legislature, NNP Columnists, Senate, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Monday, October 11th, 2021
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | October 11, 2021: There is no doubt that members of Nigeria’s National Assembly have grown too big for their boots and it is time the Nigerian people are massively fed with the liberating enlightenment that they possess the powers to cut them to size. Yes, the lawmakers need to […]
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Monday, November 9th, 2020
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Nov. 9, 2020 – I have said it so several times that when Nigerian politicians converge to map out plans for acquiring power, which, in most cases, practically translates to securing unlimited access to unearned wealth, they do not usually remember that they came from different ethnic […]
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Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | June 3, 2020 – Today, May 29, 2020, eferred to in Nigeria as “Democracy Day,” but now it will only serve as the anniversary of President Muhammadu Buhari’s regime and that of some state governors. It is usually a welcome excuse for great celebrations, chest-beating and wild claims about humongous […]
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Articles, Columnists, COVID-19, Health, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Saturday, May 9th, 2020
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | May 9, 2020 – Even though by 2015, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had performed below the high expectations of many Nigerians and had rightly earned their rejection, I highly dreaded the disastrous possibility of Nigerians falling for the massive, overwhelming but vacuous propaganda of the All […]
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Tuesday, August 27th, 2019
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | August 27, 2019 – If Nigeria is working, we will know! Those were the exact words of late Prof Chinua Achebe, Africa’s foremost novelist and distinguished intellectual. In other words, the citizens do not need any bogus claims by government’s megaphones to realise that there is an improvement in […]
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Saturday, June 22nd, 2019
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | June 22, 2019 – Early on Wednesday, February 27, 2019, by 4.40 am and four days after the presidential election held in Nigeria on Saturday, February 23, the Chairman of the ‘Independent’ National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Mahmood Yakubu, announced that Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC) […]
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Articles, Columnists, Imo, NNP Columnists, State News, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Sunday, June 2nd, 2019
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | June 1, 2019 – Since Mr. Emeka Ihedioha of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) emerged the winner of the governorship election held recently in Imo State, all sorts of people who are able to get themselves interviewed by reporters have been filling our ears with rambling tales about how […]
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Saturday, February 23rd, 2019
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Feb. 23, 2019 – As President Muhammadu Buhari, the commander-in-chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, moves from one state to another, campaigning for a second term despite nearly four years in office which has been widely adjudged a horrendous failure, a 15-year old, tender, innocent girl called Leah […]