Imo 2019: The monkey and dog metaphor
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
In his epic novel, Things Fall Apart, late Chinua Achebe brought the...
Fashola’s faux pas, Buhari’s confession and vice presidential debate
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
After three years and six months of showboating and the prospects of the consequential 2019 elections...
Who is afraid of amended Electoral Act?
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
For many political gladiators, the fear of the 2018 Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill, is the beginning...
Mbaka, the priest as a con artist
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, the spiritual director of the Adoration Catholic Prayer Ministry, Emene, Enugu State, is in the news again.
Yes, you...
2019 Polls: Let the debates start
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
On Thursday, November 22, the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisations of Nigeria (BON) announced schedules for the 2019...
When Ndigbo made an audacious statement
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
The statement was loud and clear; the move audacious, even unprecedented, in a country where political correctness is the credo of the...
Nigeria’s democracy breeds dictators
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
As the national chairman of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Chief Bisi Akande made a very telling comment in 2011,...
As SETESCO rises and shines again
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Seven years after Nigeria’s fratricidal war, the bucolic Obohia community in Ahiazu-Mbaise local government area, Imo State, came alive, rediscovering its soul,...
Military Board as custodian of certificates
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
As he did in 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari, who is seeking re-election, has again failed to hand in his academic credentials to...
APGA: How greed smothered a beautiful dream
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
When Peter Obi, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) vice presidential candidate, defected from the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) to the PDP...