Ikechukwu Amaechi

Amaechi, former Editor of Daily Independent, is the Editor-in-Chief/Managing Editor of TheNiche.

Crisis Foretold

The forces of darkness that are bent on holding Nigeria down are still at work as has been conclusively proved by last Saturday's governorship and State Assembly elections...

Yes, INEC Has Lost The Game

It is necessary to state from the very outset that whatever difficulties INEC claims to be facing currently in the discharge of its constitutional responsibility – conduct of free, fair and credible polls – were avoidable...

Confusion Walks On All Fours

As you read this, it will be 18 days to the start of the epoch-making April 2007 elections. Everything is being done by almost everybody involved in this process to cause confusion...

Is This War Or Election?

Is Nigeria preparing for war? This is the question that should occupy the minds of all well meaning citizens as the echo of federal government's sound bites of war gets louder...

Bayo Ojo’s “Slippery Slope” and Yar’Adua’s Catarrh

Why would any presidential aspirant pray for Yar'Adua's death at this period? I may be naïve, not being a politician, but I refuse to buy the argument that Yar'Adua is the man to beat in this election...

Nuhu Ribadu’s List Of Prejudice

It will be difficult for one book to contain the names of all the corrupt people in Nigeria, because that book could well be a multi- million page book…

A Country And Its Strange Citizens

Nigerians are a special breed of people. They have the incomprehensible and bizarre capacity of being happy in the worst of circumstances. A Nigerian could even applaud a man contemptuous enough of him to rape his mother in his presence...

2007: Again, We Have Lost It

Those who use age to rationalise Nigeria’s insalubrious political conduct forget that in the same western hemisphere with America is a country called Haiti, the world's first black-led republic which became independent in 1804. Today, Haiti remains the poorest nation in the Americas without a scintilla of democratic culture…

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