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)

Banks And Their Corporate Prostitutes

Today, most people are wont to draw parallels between female bankers and the nation’s swarm of unprincipled actresses, and between the banking industry and the scummy pond we call our home video industry...

Where Is Nigeria's Senate President?

Lawlessness is the most effective ingredient for breeding ravenous monsters for any nation. In the same vein, it will take a real miracle, which is very rare in Nigeria, to stop a president who is unchecked by any laws, and unrestrained by any Assembly, from quickly transforming into a free, all-devouring lion let loose in the open...

They Have Unleashed Another Pain!

If the masses of Nigeria are yearning for the slightest bit of relief and happiness, they will have to look beyond the irredeemably corrupt and soulless Obasanjo dictatorship, because, from every indication, these are clearly not in its list of priorities.

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

Where Then Shall We Run To?

About six young girls were in the bus. The men violently pulled them up, forced them to undress and began to rape them. As they took turns on these hapless girls, and raped them with savagery and beastly relish, the girls cried in deep pain. And as some of the girls screamed in pain, they shut them up with murderous threats and blows...

Gov Abdullahi Adamu’s Dubious Patriotism

There are Nigerians, though occupying very high positions of responsibility, who would never be able to gain my respect and, perhaps, that of other decent Nigerians, until they learn to straighten their crooked paths, and purge themselves of the acute hypocrisy and sickening dissembling that seem to run in their veins...

If Ehindero fails…

 I do not know how it happened, but since he commenced work as the Nigeria's Chief Cop, I have never been able to shake off the stubborn feeling that Mr. Ehindero may indeed represent a healthy and edifying surprise in the Nigeria Police, if the regime that appointed him would allow him free hand to duly police the country...

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