APC Should Face The Real Issues – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | May 14, 2015 – Recently, the Chairman of the All Progressive Congress (APC), Mr. John Oyegun, was quoted as saying that he was “sad” that his party could not produce a lawmaker from the South East to be elected as senate president or speaker of the House of […]

Dying for Nothing in Nigeria – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye| Lagos, Nigeria | April 21, 2105 – During the governorship and states’ houses of assembly elections that took place in Nigeria last Saturday (April 11, 2015), several persons reportedly died across the nation. As I write now, a day after the elections, there are reports of raging battles in a couple of […]

Bird Flu: All Eyes On Nigeria? – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | March 27, 2015 – Recently (January 2015), Nigeria ’s Minister of Agriculture, Akinwumi Adesina,  confirmed the outbreak of bird flu in eleven states of the federation. The states affected are Kano, Lagos , Ogun, Rivers, Delta, Edo , Plateau, Gombe, Imo, Oyo and Jigawa states. Not many Nigerians even heard of the […]

Is Robert Mugabe’s Fall Symbolic? – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | March 10, 2015 – Not a few across the world are convinced that it has become completely impossible to feel any sympathy for President Robert Mugabe no matter what happens to him. Mugabe’s 35-year old rule which has rewarded Zimbabweans with untold hardship has continued to defy any attempt at […]

Buhari & APC’s N27 Million Nomination Form – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye / NNP / October 30, 2014 – Late last week (Thursday, October 16, 2014), the All Progressives Congress (APC) startled decent Nigerians when its national chairman, Mr. John Odigie-Oyegun, announced that the party put the cost of its expression of interest and nomination forms at the cost of N27.5 million in order […]

Why I Didn’t Celebrate Christmas! – By Ugochukwu Ejinkonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Jan. 2, 2013 – A few days ago, what is generally termed ‘Christmas Day” was marked across the world with din, pomp and fanfare. But in my household, it was just another day – like any other day. The reason was quite simple: I do not believe that […]

An Encounter With Port Harcourt’s Gridlocks – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | October 24, 2013 – Since graduating from the University of Port Harcourt many years ago, I always look forward to any opportunity to reconnect with Port Harcourt, although it is always difficult to say what exactly fires the attachment. Maybe, the inexplicable  joyful feeling that often wells up […]

Nigeria: Kill Corruption Before It Kills You! – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | June 26, 2013 – It has since become common knowledge which enjoys widespread acceptance that any day Nigeria is able to make up its mind to end its obscene and ruinous romance with the stubborn monster called “Corruption”, this country will automatically witness the kind of prosperity no […]

Teaching Immorality in Schools – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | May 15, 2013 | If anyone had told me a few years ago that a time will come in Nigeria when the authorities will approve the teaching of sexual immorality as a subject in junior and secondary schools, I would have thought that the person had lost his […]

Patience Jonathan, The Inimitable Dame! – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 26, 2012 – It is a classic case of ‘One Week, One Controversy’!  And the inimitable Dame, Mrs. Patience Jonathan, has been in the news again. She hardly disappoints. Perhaps, before your read this piece, Mrs. Jonathan would have returned from Germany where she had gone “to […]

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