… Warns of potential violence arising from overlapped and competing cultural event schedules… Attributes clash to the persistent kingship tussle in Awka… Says that security agencies are on alert to deal with any disturbance to public peaceBy Chudi Okoye...
By Chudi Okoye
"Who is a 'youth' in Nigeria?"
Who, you ask, is a 'youth' in Nigeria?
Hush, impetuous questioner!
This will cause mass hysteria!
Though you are a native sojourner
And not a supercilious foreigner
You must not dare to interrogate
The wisdom of our local...
By Chudi Okoye
My dearly beloved children
Yes, you my prim and preachy children
You mortals which art on Earth
Mellowed be thy mouth!
You peddle your religion so wantonly
Rattling off your homilies so openly
You try to impress with your virtuous vocabulary
Chastising doubters like...
By Chudi OkoyeOh look! Look right here and markWhat they've done to our Dike ParkLook at this pile, unsightly and starkIn all its 'glory' a decrepit shamblesA sordid result of decrepit gamblesAnd emblem of our mutilated dream.Let us spy...
By Chudi Okoye
Dear St James, my St James
Cathedral of my contentment
Beloved monument of my upliftment
Accept tonight my fervent felicitations
My love for you a furnace of fiery flames!
You are, St James, a house of miracles
Our own hallowed hibernacle
Harboring in your...
ANNOUNCING THE LAUNCH OF AWKA TIMES MAGAZINELaunch Date: Sunday, December 8, 2019 Greetings, Awka Capital Territory!Greetings, Nigeria and Africa!Greetings, World!It gives me great pleasure to announce today the launch of Awka Times Magazine (ATM).Awka Times is a general-interest periodical published...
Awka Times has introduced an opinion survey program to measure popular sentiment and ensure that the unfiltered voice of Awka people comes through amid the paroxysm of leadership rivalries wracking the Awka political class. These rivalries prevent this class,...
Exclusive ATM Interviews With Major Players in Awka Kingship SagaAwka Times Magazine spent several weeks, at different locations in Nigeria and USA, interviewing many of the key figures involved in the current political crisis in Awka. We probed them...
Awka Times Interview with High Chief (Senator) Ben Ndi Obi
Intro by Chudi Okoye
He combines some of the finer diplomatic skills of Talleyrand and Metternich. He has been a fixture in the rarefied circles of high politics in Nigeria for...
The primordial Awka town is shrinking in size and authoritative influence, a result of territorial encroachments and political marginalization.By Chudi Okoye, Ik Cino Otti and Emeka RalIt might be an interesting exercise to depict the territorial expanse of Awka...