By Chudi Okoye
You wouldn't think, to observe the profligate habits of Nigeria's ruling elites, that the nation is now caught in an unyielding debt trap. The recent update on Nigeria's public debt provided by the Debt Management Office (DMO)...
By Chudi Okoye
We are at this moment more than midway through the Holy Week in Christendom, a period requiring of observant Christians that they engage in fasting and abstinence, along with meditation and prayer, as we re-enact the passion...
20% Population, 1% Political Power
By Chudi Okoye
The math is simply mind-bending
Bleaker even than in racist America
Where once the beleaguered Black,
Considered as White man's chattel,
Were estimated three-fifths a human
In their owners' political calculation.
America re-jigged its rusted math
After eighty years...
Stooperpower
By Chudi Okoye
Anthony Blinken blinks inartfully
At the spate of unspeakable horrors
Visited upon Gaza by America's vexed ally.
Joe Biden, his boss, bends unabashedly
To the whims of a wild client state
With balls bigger than its budget.
Oh, how are the mighty crawling!
Amid...
With the recent Supreme Court ruling reinstating the terrorism and treasonable felony charges leveled against Nnamdi Kanu, danger looms for the South East. The region must lobby harder to have the case terminated, failing which it should brace up...
With Nigeria sliding into a Hobbesian state, major opposition parties face a Hobson’s choice: remain fragmented and ineffectual, or adopt ‘cooperative strategies’ involving an outright merger or formal electoral alliance, to wrest power from a fumbling but formidable ruling...
Nigeria should adopt Kissinger’s ‘great power’ vision to assert itself in Africa and the Global South, but not his more devious methods.
By Chudi Okoye
As a young, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed idealist weaving my way in the world of liberal academia,...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo calls for political import substitution in Africa, to replace “unworkable” Western-style liberal democracy with “Afro Democracy”. He’s wrong.
By Chudi Okoye
It seems almost surreal that one should have to defend ‘liberal democracy’ as a system of...
What’s to be done when change is imperative but the political conjuncture makes it improbable? A coalition of major opposition parties offers a promising path.
By Chudi Okoye
A defeat of the corrupt and incompetent ruling party, the All Progressives Congress...
After a dogged 30-year pursuit of the Nigerian presidency which so far has proved unsuccessful, Atiku Abubakar, who has had an illustrious political career otherwise, might now consider giving it a rest and working instead for the larger goal...