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)

Why Looting May Not Stop In Nigeria

Many years ago, when heavy traffic on Carter Bridge consisted of several new Raleigh bicycles racing along, some motorcycles and a couple of cars, a man returned to his village from Lagos, with a well tailored new dress, with which he hoped to cause a stir in Church the following Sunday...

Help, My Baby Can’t Sleep!

He just turned one, a couple of months ago. I have been at pains trying to make him realise that where he was born and lives is called Nigeria, and that in his country, at this time, virtually every facility that requires government’s input to function appears to have either packed up or grossly under-performing...

Imoke's Devastating Bomb

Majority of Nigerians who have already attained the age of fifty today, or forty and even thirty, should simply give up any hope of ever experiencing in their lifetime what it means to have an uninterrupted power supply...

Agbani's Sickening Folly

Agbani has become Nigeria's ambassador of shame. She needs to be rescued before greater desperation drives her into more heinous acts. Somebody should, also, please walk across to her parents and talk some sense into them...

Agbani's Sickening Folly

Agbani has become Nigeria's ambassador of shame. She needs to be rescued before greater desperation drives her into more heinous acts. Somebody should, also, please walk across to her parents and talk some sense into them...

Diane Abbott And Our 'Patriots'

I will not condemn Diane Abbott. I would rather regard her as a true friend of the long suffering masses of Nigeria. The real enemies of Nigeria and Nigerians are those discrediting her unimpeachable testimony...

Anambra: Who Lost Out Eventually?

There were reports of overwhelming pressure mounted on the Election Petition Tribunal in Awka to cancel the Gubernatorial Election in Anambra and order fresh polls. But this failed because the judges saw it as one excellent way of treading the path of perdition...

Nigeria: Axis Of Darkness?

Oh ye Nigerians, you must learn to be appreciative because it cost your wonder-working government a whole seven noisy years of loud promises, invaluable efforts, sacrificial work, sleepless nights and the whopping sum of nearly three billion dollars to bring you this amount of blinding darkness...

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