Uche Nworah

Uche Nworah is a freelance writer, lecturer and brand scholar. He is the founder and project director of T.O.T.A.L PROJECTS, an NGO that promotes e-learning in Africa. He lives in London and can be contacted on uchenworah@yahoo.com.

Public Service Cleansing in Abia State

Abia state is in the news, for the wrong reasons again. It appears there is no end in sight to the troubles and woes of residents of the state...

Ambassador John Campbell’s Doomsday Prophecy

Reading Mr Campbell’s essay, you can’t help but sympathise with Mr. Segun Aganga, Nigeria’s new Minister of Trade and Investment as his job has just been made much more challenging as he begins a mighty task of convincing foreign investors to come to Nigeria...

Selling the Nigerian Politician

Ever since President Goodluck Jonathan announced to his friends on Facebook that he was going to seek nomination of his party to run for president, the battle seemed to have been also transferred online. The missing link, however, remains the way many of the politicians who joined the social media bandwagon use such platforms to engage the voters...

How Nollywood is Killing Nigerian Television

The eighties and nineties Nigeria belonged to actors and actresses who lighted up our TV screens with superb performances in soaps, TV dramas and shows such as Inside Out, Mirror in the Sun, Supple Blues, Behind the Clouds, Checkmate, Fortunes, Basi & Company, Ripples, New Masquerade...

My Friend and Brother, Nze Sunny Ogbu JP (1965-2010)

Nze will not fit into your bill of a typical Nigerian politician; his philosophy of politics without bitterness was modelled after the late Waziri Ibrahim of GNPP. He never saw politics as a ‘do or die’ affair, believing strongly in his catholic faith that only the will of God will prevail at all times...

Nigeria’s FM Radio DJs

It’s good to see that new things are happening in radio broadcasting in Nigeria but the presenters should please not throw caution to the winds by adopting a Lawrence Akapa tabloid style approach in their quest to entertain...

The Paedophiles in our midst

It was reported that Sani Yerima had been married and divorced many times in order to marry younger women...

Lagos Okada Riders and Death Wish

For many Lagosians, riding daily on okada is an unavoidable part of their daily routine as only the ‘kings of the road’ have the daredevil DNA to waltz, dash, slide, ride and manoeuvre their way through the thick Lagos traffic...

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