Executive lawlessness: Like Obasanjo, like Buhari
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
When Aso Rock accused former President Olusegun Obasanjo of masterminding the illegal ouster of five governors when he was in office, many...
Is Buhari truly a ‘converted democrat?’
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Delivering a lecture titled “Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa: Nigeria’s Transition,” on Thursday, February 16, 2015, at the Chatham House, London,...
Newsroom dynamics; Tales from Lisbon
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Nine years ago, I was in Durban, South Africa, for the 14th edition of the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist Awards, which took place...
Ekiti poll as proxy war for 2019
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
A week before the June 21, 2014 governorship election in Ekiti State, I led a team of senior editorial staff of TheNiche newspaper to...
Your land or your life
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
The massacre penultimate week of over 200 Plateau State residents, many of them women and children, elicited diverse responses from within and...
Plateau carnage and antics of a low-road government
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
On Saturday, June 23, Dr. Sylvester Ugoh, former Minister of Education, sent me a video clip of Chimamanda Adichie delivering a speech...
June 12: Celebration of Yoruba triumphalism or righting historical wrong?
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
My “June 12: I still remember,” article last week elicited, expectedly, diverse responses. The annulment of the election and the consequent turmoil...
June 12: I still remember
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
June 12, 2018, was the 25th anniversary of Nigeria’s historic election, which outcome held out so much promise.
How time flies! Who will believe...
Three years after, Buhari has failed
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
On May 29, 2015, General Muhammadu Buhari, former military head of state, took oath of office as Nigeria’s fifth democratically elected executive...
APC Congresses of blood, tears and sorrow
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Beleaguered Senator Dino Melaye got a mischievous dig in at his own political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Saturday May...
