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)

Campaigns In Troublous Times

As I see the reports of the numerous rallies the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is addressing in several parts of the country, I am always forced to ask: what really is the PDP telling these people?

The Willis Knuckles Saga

There are quite a number of lessons to be learnt from the scandal which hit the Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Administration in Liberia recently...

What About Bird Flu?

Pay a visit to Onipanu market in Lagos and see for yourself how vulnerable Nigeria is to this virus, and how unconcerned the authorities are about the dreaded pandemic that is chilling the spine of the rest of the world...

Problem Has Changed Name (PHCN)

The bitter truth, which would be too hard to shy away from, is that NEPA has worked so hard to distinguish itself as one of the most excruciating problems of the Nigerian nation, which has even terribly worsened since it took on the new name of PHCN...

No Doubt, This House Has Collapsed!

Indeed, this house has collapsed. I do not envy the person who will take over from Obasanjo. The person will inherit an angry, hungry, impoverished and frustrated populace, wilfully plunged into unimaginable hardship by a regime that behaves as if it was  contracted to visit untold punishment on Nigerians...

After The OBJ Primaries

No one who had keenly followed reports and analyses of developments
on Nigeria's political terrain in the past couple of weeks would be
surprised at the emergence of the Katsina State Governor, Umar Musa
Yar'Adua, as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic
Party...

Condoms, HIV/AIDS And You!

Following my article published here entitled, "Nigeria's Last Virgins", Dr. Anthony Odoh, a Nigerian physician in Spain, sent me this very illuminating paper...

Condoms, HIV/AIDS And You!

Following my article published here entitled, "Nigeria's Last Virgins", Dr. Anthony Odoh, a Nigerian physician in Spain, sent me this very illuminating paper...

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