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Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election Outcome: Pre-Mortem on the Opposition’s Legal Recourse

There may be a prima facie case of aggravated infractions in the just concluded presidential election in Nigeria. However, it might be challenging to meet the high burden of proof the courts would require to overcome the need for...

Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election Outcome: Post-Mortem on the Opposition’s Tactical Moves

The fragmentation of opposition forces and their tactical blunders may have been the decisive factor that shaped the outcome of the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria. By Chudi Okoye In the immediate aftermath of the 2023 presidential election in Nigeria,...

And The Voters Went Out To Vote

And The Voters Went Out To Vote (Lament for the 2023 Nigerian election) By Chudi Okoye (First Draft: Feb 27, 2023) Oh hear now all ye here gathered Words akin to ones once rendered By the Lord in his Parable of the Soils Here recast as...

Moment of Truth: Who Should Win vs. Who Might Win Nigeria’s 2023 Presidential Election

The unspoken issue in Nigeria's impending presidential election is the tension between who ought to win and who might actually win the election. If fate would favor this forlorn country, what ought to be will become fact in the...

Spit-At-Home Day

By Chudi Okoye December 14, 2022 It is sit-at-home day in the South East One fiercely enforced by local bandits Who have caused a split in our homes And cut a reddened slit in our hopes Today they killed a pregnant woman One among many harmless...

Rise Up and Walk!

By Chudi Okoye November 25, 2022 Apostle Peter looked upon the lame Squatted by the gate called Beautiful Fractured and forlorn, with no name His arm stretched out seeking alms And Peter said: Silver or gold, I've no stock But in the name of...

The ‘Dot’ and the Sloth

By Chudi Okoye November 21, 2022 The big shot who called us a 'dot' From his spot in blighted Aso Rot Is now caught in a demeaning squat Wasted and become but a naught. In our history he'll be seen as a blot A sloth who,...

A Path to Positive Outcomes in the Battle of the Professor and the Trader

The two men said: “Let there be battle!” At first some were rattled. But then there was much good that came from the fray. And so, after a short period, seeing that their exertion was good, the two men...

The Bola Tinubu ‘Drug Money Laundering’ Saga: Morality, Character and Political Leadership

The current debate surrounding Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, relating to allegations of drug trafficking and money laundering in America, raises fundamental questions about morality which must be litigated in the Nigerian courts or in the political arena....

Pray, what is the Point of Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed?

Nigeria has tumbled from the majestic era of a highly cerebral and world-renowned economist as her finance minister, when her public debt was nearly zeroed out, to the travesty of an unremarkable misfit under whom the country’s economy has...

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Egwu Imoka 2020: Day 1 of Festival Amid Covid-19 Restrictions

By Chudi Okoye, Stella Nzekwe and Ken Chukwudi The 2020 edition of the traditional Awka festival, Egwu Imoka, has commenced. Day 1 of the three-day...

Public Service Announcement On The Closure Of Eke Awka Market

This is to inform the public that effective Monday, 15th June, 2020, Eke Awka Market, in Awka South Local Government will be shut down. This...

Beginning and Becoming

Beginning and Becoming By Chudi Okoye I. Primordial ChaosLong before that bold and blazing beginning,Before the...

The Compelling, Yet Complicated Calculus of a Jonathan Run in 2027

As speculation swirls over his potential return, Goodluck Jonathan must weigh the promise of redemption against the peril of forfeiting the very...