Britain does it again, delivering a fast, efficient and consequential election, without any controversy.
By Chudi Okoye
Surprising most everyone including vast members of his own party, even its inner cast, on May 22, 2024 - several months before he absolutely...
A recent ruling by the US Supreme Court went far beyond constitutional provision and precedent to grant the president absolute or presumptive immunity on all his ‘official acts’, shielding him in perpetuity from criminal prosecution. This essay posits the...
Democrats need to quickly resolve the issues arising from Joe Biden’s recent presidential debate debacle, and focus their energies on confronting the looming menace of Donald Trump’s return to power.
By Chudi Okoye
They seem rather befuddled and in a serious...
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,...
The activists who planned the recent #EndBadGovernance protest in Nigeria could not have expected its political fallouts, including the potential to trigger realignments in...
The ongoing hardship protest in Nigeria may be squelched by strident rebuke and heavy-handed coercion, but there’s a deeper dynamic in it that bodes...
Donald Trump and wingnuts in his Republican Party are lobbing racist and misogynistic attacks at the Democratic Party’s new presumptive nominee, Kamala Harris. Will...