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By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: Tuesday, December 30, 2008
As you read this, we will only be one day away from 2009. By midnight tomorrow, we will be ushering in a brand new year. The outgoing year has been a trying one for most Nigerians, but the coming year promises to be even tougher.
Ironically, 2008 need not be [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: December 23, 2008
Finally, after 15 months of consultations, brainstorming and hard deliberations, Justice Mohammed Uwais and his colleagues on the Electoral Reforms Panel, have submitted their report to the man who set up the committee, President Umaru Yar’Adua.
The 22-member Committee, made up of eminent Nigerians, men and women who have excelled in [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: December 16, 2008
Am I happy that, at long last, the judiciary has brought a final closure to the 2007 presidential election? Perhaps! But not quite.
I am not quite happy because rather than being an end, the Supreme Court judgment which, last Friday, validated President Umaru Yar’Adua’s mandate will mark the beginning [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Ideally, citizenship and patriotism ought to be two sides of a coin; a citizen should love his country and be willing to defend it.
Patriotism is that special bond that binds the citizen and his country. The affinity is transcendental because it is an experience that goes beyond human knowledge [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: Tuesday, December 2, 2008
I asked this question last week. My answer was that given the battle of wits in Ogun State between the former “First Daughter” Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, the state governor, Gbenga Daniel and Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, it is most likely that the people’s vote will [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: Tuesday, November 25, 2008
I am happy for Comrade Adams Oshiomhole but happier for the long suffering people of Edo State. At long last and perhaps for the first time since Nigeria became independent in 1960, a man they chose at the polls has ascended the throne. The man they voted for on [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
When Will Change Come To Nigeria?
As America’s President-elect, Barack Obama, wife, Michelle and daughters, Malia ans Sasha, stood on the stage at Chicago’s Grant Park last Tuesday night to thank the good people of America for electing him the 44th President of the United States, the entire country and [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: Tuesday, May 27, 2008
Next year will be really a very, very interesting year for this country, very interesting.
That was Umaru Yar’Adua, Nigeria’s President since May 29, 2007, in an interview with the Financial Times of London. On Thursday (two days from today), Yar’Adua will be celebrating the first anniversary of his presidency, [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: Tuesday, May 13, 2008
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 [...]
By Ikechukwu Amaechi
Published: Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Indubitably, this moment is judiciary’s finest in Nigeria. The Judges have never had it so good, at least not since the days of the locusts when successive military juntas reduced the third arm of government to an appendage of the executive by browbeating the Judges; a sacrilege that did [...]
