Please, ASUU, Please; Call off this Strike, by Ken Ugbechie
This is a plaintive cry from a broken heart, a concerned parent and a patriot, to the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU): Please, call off this strike; return…
Obi-Datti movement and this present house
KEN UGBECHIE It’s going full circle. Like a cyclone routing the weeds in a farmland of wheats. The Peter Obi-Yusuf Datti movement, aka Obi-Datti movement, has become all that’s the…
NLNG and Nigeria Literature: A Feast and a Festival
KEN UGBECHIE It’s 2.00pm on Sunday, August 7, 2022. And time for a party. Not a booze party, not a birthday bash or a political party rendezvous. It’s time for…
Maddening Monday: Terror as a talk show
BY KEN UGBECHIE It has all been said. Nigeria has seen the worst of insecurity under Muhammadu Buhari. From Terror Tuesday of July 5 to Maddening Monday of July 25,…
Osun election as INEC, Buhari’s trophy, by Ken Ugbechie
The ides of any month does not always present good news. Right from the old Roman empire, ides signposted bad omen; moments of pain. Ides also come with a hangover…
Max Amuchie: Tribute to a worthy journalist, by Ken Ugbechie
My Dear Max Amuchie, Today, I join friends, family and colleagues to celebrate a worthy journalist: a terrific reporter and editor/publisher with eyes for details. Max bears the mark of…
Terror Tuesday: A crime movie made in Nigeria, by Ken Ugbechie
Terror stalks the land. Last week was proof. Tuesday in particular was fatally epic: Terror Tuesday. The terrorists even dared the biggest stunt. They attacked the Presidential advance convoy of…
Terror Tuesday: A crime movie made in Nigeria, by Ken Ugbechie
Terror stalks the land. Last week was proof. Tuesday in particular was fatally epic: Terror Tuesday. The terrorists even dared the biggest stunt. They attacked the Presidential advance convoy of…
Atiku-Okowa ticket and lies of the mob, by Ken Ugbechie
Atiku Abubakar has come under attack from some quarters for picking Delta governor, Ifeanyi Okowa, as his running mate. Atiku is the standard bearer of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)…
Peter Obi and the inconvenient truth
BY KEN UGBECHIE Gradually but steadily, Peter Obi is re-enacting a French political revolution. Not the revolution deep in history. The decade-long revolution of May 5, 1789 to November 9,…