
Buhari’s toothache and a nation in its death throes, By Chido Onumah
General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) will leave office on May 29 after eight uneventful years. We hope it is the last time we hear from a […]
General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) will leave office on May 29 after eight uneventful years. We hope it is the last time we hear from a […]
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost […]
By Chido OnumahIt has been a year since the passage of Innocent Chukwuma, my friend, brother, and Comrade. It looks like yesterday when I got […]
“As long as my Ikenga is active, I can wrestle in the land of the spirits” – Igbo proverb. In precolonial Nigeria, the Igbo administrative […]
By Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah Dear Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Jideofor Onyeama, We chose to write you instead of President Muhammadu […]
Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu who turns 75 on May 15, 2021, has been a consistent voice for the radical transformation of Nigeria in the last […]
Two weeks ago, I lost a comrade, brother, and friend, Innocent Chukwuma. Innoma, as I called him, was 55, and until a few months […]
The last one month has witnessed a celebration of crime and corruption in Nigeria, from Ramoni Olorunwa Abbas, aka Ray Hushpuppi, to the Minister of […]
By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem Whistleblowers are the first line of defence against corruption, crime and cover-ups, according to a 2019 paper by the […]
January 15 marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Nigerian Civil War and the official end of the short-lived Republic of Biafra. It […]
At a time Nigeria requires a robust conversation about its politics, economy, ethnic relations, unity, and indeed, future, the country’s over-indulged lawmakers, egged on by […]
Introduction Information rules the world today. More often than not, the type of information we receive affects our choices, our relationship with others, the quality […]
Pius Adesanmi, Carleton University’s Professor of literature and African studies who died in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash near the town of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, […]
#TrackNigeria – First, a confession. I am Igbo, whatever that means! I was born in 1966, a year before the Nigerian Civil War that lasted […]
On Friday, December 7, 2018, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, pioneer chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) stood before a global audience in Putrajaya, […]
One thing supporters of President Muhammadu Buhari can’t deny is that many of those who oppose him today, almost three and half years after he […]
A very significant event—a peaceful mass protest against the misgovernance and mindless plunder of Imo State by Mr. Rochas Okorocha—took place in Owerri exactly a […]
I crave your indulgence to preface this speech by reiterating what all of us already know: that corruption is the number one enemy of our […]
In reviewing the farcical coup—orchestrated by the president of the Nigerian senate, Bukola Saraki—that took place on Tuesday, July 4, 2017, we were reminded of […]
Emma Ezeazu who was buried in Onitsha, southeast Nigeria, on July 4 was one the staunchest activists of the radical student and civil society movements […]
Wind the critically slurred legislative tape back to the first National Assembly of the Fourth Republic. It began sometime in 1999, you’d recall. That was […]
“We can’t continue to search the branches of a sick tree for the cause of its sickness.” – African Proverb As history unfolds in Nigeria, […]
These are perturbing times. On the eve of what promises to be Nigeria’s fiercest election, one that has set the country on edge, it is […]
I do not think Nigerians have a difficult choice to make when they go to the polls on Valentine’s Day. It’s either they return the […]
Forty-four years after the end of the Nigeria-Biafra War, Nigeria finds herself on the brink of another civil war. Nigerians have waited in vain in […]
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