Max Amuchie

Max Amuchie is a member of the editorial board of BusinessDay and a doctoral candidate in political science at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He is president of Media for Children, an NGO that promotes children's rights. He is also a member and chairman of the publications committee of the Institute of Strategic Management, Nigeria.
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Pini Jason: A generation has been robbed of a beacon of hope

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It has been a challenge for me to write this. Several times I tried to write this piece but each time my emotional strength failed me. The reality, however, is that I cannot continue to delay it even if I have to do this misty-eyed as is the case now...
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In Achebe's company 'the prison walls fell down'

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In the couple of months following his death up to his burial, the world has risen in unison to celebrate Chinua Achebe as a man universally acclaimed to be the father of modern African literature and as the man who used literature to bring Africa to the world...
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Jonathan’s hat already in the ring for 2015

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The relationship between the president and the governors has not been very cordial. During the burial of his younger brother last year in Bayelsa, the governors did not show up...
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Nigeria's invented problems and Azazi's political 'incorrectness'

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Using Jubril Aminu's postulation, Boko Haram is an invented problem. It was never there but some people invented it and have allowed it to grow. While Rwanda, Angola, Mozambique have put their historical problems behind them, Nigeria is stuck with its cycle of violence waiting for 2015...
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Jonathan and 2015: An early farewell to governance

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Today, Nigeria has never been more polarized and divided as a country. For the first time since the end of the Civil War, a few disgruntled people are calling for the break-up of the country because they feel they are receiving the short end of the stick...
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Cross River model and governance in Nigeria

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Given what governors have done in their respective states across the country, it has become apparent that what matters is not really how wealthy a state or by extension a nation is but how well the little resources available are managed...
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The South East in the Jonathan era

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Basking in the euphoria of the massive votes the region gave to President Goodluck Jonathan during the April 16 presidential election, some members of the National Assembly from the zone started clamouring for positions in the name of the zone...
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‘NYSC 9’ and Yuguda’s Heart of Darkness

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Yuguda was reported to have said that the dead NYSC members were destined to die the way and in the circumstance they died. He added that he too was attacked in 1979 when he was a youth corps member serving in Ibadan...
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