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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Bode George and the Lagos show of shame

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The ruling party, in an election year, chose to insult the sensibilities of Nigerians. Live on television was a thanksgiving service for a convicted thief, Bode George, who was driven straight from prison to church. Before then, thousands of PDP members waited outside Kirikiri prison in Lagos to receive Bode George...
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Softly, softly, Obasanjo

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Though Obasanjo has a messiah complex and in self glorification allowed sycophants during his administration to continuously refer to him as ‘father of modern Nigeria’, nothing could be farther from the truth....
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Atiku: From the brink to reckoning

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With his endorsement by the Northern political elite to contest for the ticket of the party for the 2011 election, Atiku has bounced back from political wilderness and the coming months will be interesting in the politics of Nigeria...
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How to transform Nigeria, an opposition party’s perspective

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The effort to transform Nigeria can only be meaningful if competence and character are not sacrificed on the altar of federal character, says the National Transformation Party...
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Can Northern Governors Stop Jonathan?

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Without admitting it publicly, the greatest problem Northerners in the ruling People’s Democratic Party have in wrestling the 2011 presidential ticket of the party from President Goodluck Jonathan is the absence of a formidable aspirant that can win votes across the country...
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Theodore Orji’s comeback to PDP leaves Uzor Kalu in the cold

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The formal declaration on Wednesday last week by the governor of Abia State, Theodore Orji for the People’s Democratic Party, appears to have brought to an end the controversy concerning where he would finally pitch his tent...
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Abia: Kidnapping Amidst Political Uncertainty

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The season of anomie in Abia State came full circle on Sunday with the abduction of five journalists from Lagos led by the state council chairman of the Nigerian Union of journalists, Wahab Oba...
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2011: Uduaghan’s Second Term Hope Dims

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There are strong indications that the scenario that played out in Anambra State in 2003 when then Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju was denied a second term may happen in Delta State in 2011...
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