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By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: March 4, 2008
I had a very interesting discussion over the weekend with two chieftains of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The discussion centred on the party which prides itself as not only the biggest party in Africa, but also, the harbinger of democracy in this part of the world. And what else [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: May 6, 2008
A colleague of mine from the South West has been bitter since the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced the result of the April 14, 2007 governorship election in his state, an election which the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) won.
Before the poll, he was sure that [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: March 18, 2008
Sometime in 2006, Liyel Imoke, then Minister of Power and Steel, met with some journalists at the Airport Hotel Ikeja. He was in the eye of a storm after declaring, rather haughtily, that it would take Nigerians another 50 years to enjoy what citizens of other countries, even in Africa, [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: February 12, 2008
I don’t know how many Nigerians have sat back to quantify the cost of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s betrayal of the trust of Nigerians.
Now, I am not talking about the $10 billion, nay $16 billion, that was spent in the power sector to supply us darkness, rather than light. [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: April 22, 2008
Anambra, the state that prides itself as the “home for all” is in the news again, needless to say, for the very wrong reasons.
As it has repeatedly done since the commencement of this “democratic” dispensation, the state has scored first in most negative things. Now, it is poised to score [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: May 20, 2008
For too long, I have wondered why corruption has become the country’s terminal ailment. It goes without saying that the malaise has become a canker worm because nobody has the political will to fight it. That was why General Olusegun Obasanjo spent eight years in power, claiming to be engaged [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: February 12, 2008
I don’t know how many Nigerians have sat back to quantify the cost of former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s betrayal of the trust of Nigerians.
Now, I am not talking about the $10 billion, nay $16 billion, that was spent in the power sector to supply us darkness, rather than light. [...]
By Ikechukwu Aamaechi
Published: April 8, 2008
There is no doubt that Nigeria’s former president, the man General Theophilus Danjuma derisively (and some will say deservingly) described as the Aremu of Ota, General Olusegun Obasanjo, is an angry man. Today, he is beside himself with rage. If only he could turn back the hand of the clock. [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: April 15, 2008
I would preface this article with the popular Warri story about an encounter between an Igbo trader who sells shoes at the Okere Market in Warri and an Urhobo who wanted to con him out of his wares but ended up holding the wrong end of the ‘419’ stick.
As the story [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
In a country where the driving force behind almost every quest for public office is greed anchored on primitive accumulation of wealth; where the penchant of leaders to cut multi-billion Naira deals at the expense of public good is befuddling, the story could not have bothered any of our “big men” behind oak-panelled [...]
