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)

Mr. President, It’s Too Dark Here!

Mr. President, we at least have you to thank for helping us realize that in Nigeria, Government has become totally irrelevant in our lives, a needless burden too heavy to bear...

Enough Of The Obasanjo Family, Please!

Bitter-Sweet: My Life With Obasanjo, is all about a woman’s attempt to rewrite herself into prominence and reckoning in one man’s life, to demonstrate, albeit incoherently...

The Stench From Speaker Bankole’s House

The only memorable statement I can recall ever hearing from Bankole in the recent past is his most unfortunate charge to his equally unprofitable and bankrupt colleagues to never oppose President Umar Musa Yar’Adua no matter what happens...

We Can Help Save This Little Girl!

Even the hardest of hearts would be melted by the moving story of Miss Chioma Aribe, the 19-year-old Engineering student of the of the Yaba College of Technology currently waging a gallant battle against a life-threatening liver aliment...

If The Niger Bridge Collapses…

From what we are seeing, the Federal Government is not behaving as if it is aware that a devastating tragedy is lurking at the corner, waiting to strike...

For McCain, PDP Beckons!

No matter who is announced winner of the American presidential election after November 4, what would never remain in doubt is that this is one election that would be far-reaching in redefining the political and social scene of the United States...

This Sick Nation Needs Healthy Physicians

For a nation as terribly sick as Nigeria is, when exactly would its healing and reclamation commence? When would men with vision, mission, skill and verve come on board to commence the really arduous of work of reviving this nation?

Criminalisation Of Poverty

It is the honest poor that get arrested on the mere suspicion that their haggard, hungry look suggests they might be criminals, or even for such non-existent offences like ‘wandering’, and dumped and forgotten in detention camps for being unable to buy their freedom...

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