Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, a Nigerian journalist and writer, is a columnist and member of the Editorial Board, Daily Independent newspaper. He is the author of NIGERIA: Why Looting May Not Stop (scruples2006@yahoo.com)

Nigeria: When INEC Assumes The Role Of Kingmaker!

Well-meaning Nigerians are relieved that the misconceived bill which sought to impose “a maximum of six months imprisonment or a fine of no more...

Chinua Achebe, Nobel Prize And African Literature

March 21 was here again recently. On this particular day in 2013, Professor Chinua Achebe, one of the world’s most distinguished writers and intellectuals...

Ojukwu: Exile, Diplomacy and Survival

(A Book Review) Volumes have been said and written about the Nigeria/Biafra War: the pre-war hostilities that degenerated into the pogroms that eventually provoked the...

Saturday’s Governorship Elections In Nigeria And The Credibility Of The Electoral Commission

As the November 11, 2023, governorship elections in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states draw close, widespread and justifiable concerns continue to mount about the...

Dele Giwa’s Assassination: 37 Years After

“Death is…the absence of presence…the endless time of never coming back…a gap you can’t see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes...

Would Somebody, Please, Tell Nigerians That Corrupt Leadership Does Not Exempt Anyone From Its Torments?

“What luck for rulers that men do not think.” ― Adolf Hitler Many Nigerians are stuck with zero experience of what it means to live in...

Promise Of A New Era: Peter Obi Unmasked

Even after the 2023 presidential elections scheduled for next Saturday (February 25, 2023) in which Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party has received...

Will Buhari Go Without Rescuing Leah Sharibu?

As President Muhammadu Buhari prepares himself for a happy return to his comfortable country home in Daura, Katsina State, after nearly eight years in...

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