2019 election and under-age voting
KEN UGBECHIE You must give Nigeria’s political actors some credit for their amazing skills. They, alone, have the ability to be black at dawn and white at dusk. They have…
PDP vs APC: Between thieves and robbers
KEN UGBECHIE As a Nigerian, are you not worried? Does your inward wrench not threaten to riot over the open show of shame by the nation’s two most illustrious(?) political…
Nigeria: A battle of the gods
KEN UGBECHIE In Nigeria, there is a god, a deity of a special genre. It is called the military. Many things are fused into it. The Army, the Navy, the…
Osinbajo’s selective amnesia
KEN UGBECHIE Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has told Nigerians that the Buhari government has not tackled corruption effectively. He seems to be alone here. Every other member of the Buhari…
Nigeria Police show of shame, by Ken Ugbechie
A video clip that went viral early last week fittingly illustrates the pitiable state of security in Nigeria. The video, obviously filmed from a safe distance a couple of feet…
Buhari: Dapchi Girls Complete Your Story
KEN UGBECHIE In his quiet moment, President Muhammadu Buhari by now should be a disturbed man. Behind the steely mien of a war-tested retired general, the president – a father,…
Okowa and the new oil revenue
KEN UGBECHIE Evidence of improvement in the nation’s revenue profile was indexed in the latest revelation by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). A statement by the nation’s extractive…
Thriving in adversity: LeoStan Ekeh story
KEN UGBECHIE Do economists make good entrepreneurs; or entrepreneurs great economists? This has been a puzzle through the ages. Many liken the economist to someone who only knows the way…
Nigeria is a movie, here’s how
KEN UGBECHIE A friend once remarked that God indulges in the humourous; or at least has a good sense of comedy. He likened the earth to a huge television set…
Grieving citizens, grooving leaders
KEN UGBECHIE African leaders gathered in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia recently. It was the 30th African Union (AU) summit. Two critical themes ran through the summit: Corruption and…