… Calls on constituents to be patient and understand that the legislative process is slow… Says legislators can only lobby and pass laws but it is up to executive to implement… Says youth should buckle down and not wait...
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...
ATM Interview with MD/CEO of ACTDA, Ven. (Barr) Amaechi Okwuosa"…They can’t eat their cake and have it."The dismal state of infrastructure in Awka, the capital of Anambra State, is a much-mentioned issue, and the focus of detailed reporting in...
By Chudi OkoyeDr Okey Anueyiagu proved to be of dramatic and phlegmatic disposition all at once. He came across as a controlled explosion, with a calm externality that belied a fiery intentionality. Awka Times editors had tracked this urbane...
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...
With the recent Supreme Court ruling reinstating the terrorism and treasonable felony charges leveled against Nnamdi Kanu, danger looms for the South East. The...
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...
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...