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Tag: Emeka Duru
Nigeria’s missing links at 64
The trouble with Nigeria is simply and squarely the failure of leadership. Successive leaders of the…
A new deal and a new dawn in Abia under Otti
These laudable actions of the Labour Party-controlled Government have helped to engender a growing climate of…
In memory of our fallen heroes
What is not clear in all the instances, is whether the culprits were among those killed…
Subsidy removal and Tinubu’s phantom palliatives
As a major oil producing nation, Nigeria has no reason to experience any crisis in that…
OPINION – Mmesoma Ejikeme, ethnic warlords and the rest of us
For no reasons other than to cause disaffection between the hard-working Igbo and their peace-loving Yoruba…
Buhari’s fuel subsidy confession and limits of hypocrisy
Insecurity and unemployment which he promised to battle, soared more in his period. With him in…
OPINION – Is this the Buhari legacy of credible elections?
But few months into the administration, it became obvious that the head of state had no…
Presidency: Neither the APC, nor the PDP
In many parts of the country, insecurity has been on the rise to the extent that…
Tinubu candidacy and the Chatham House charade
That assumption of entitlement that he earlier advertised in his absurd “Emi l’okan” (it is my…
Peter Obi’s soothing balm to Nigeria’s flood victims
The LP candidate has bright chances in the 2023 election. He has the capacity, the character…
Another season of Nigeria’s flood of sorrow
Critical infrastructure like hospitals, roads, bridges and schools, including the state-owned Niger Delta University, Amassoma, the…
OPINION – Peter Obi as object of APC attacks
But the more critical point at this moment, is the challenge by Obi on his colleagues…
OPINION – Buhari’s patriotic sentiments and failure of action
This generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country than Nigeria. We shall…
OPINION – Insecurity: Before this House called Nigeria falls
These are certainly tetchy times. The illusion of patriotism may be high in restraining one from…
Uzodimma’s olive branch and enduring peace in Orlu
By Emeka Alex Duru A certain artwork on Facebook social media platform during the week, accounts…
Obi and Nigeria’s face of change
By Emeka Alex Duru You may need to understand the attachment of an average Jew to…
OPINION: PDP, South East and how not to reward loyalty
By Emeka Alex Duru We had on this space attempted a sketch of analogy between the…
Justice for Osinachi Nwachukwu
By Emeka Duru Until her death and the accompanying gory details, I was not familiar with…
Tunde Bakare and limits of unfounded assertions
By Emeka Duru My colleague, Ikechukwu Amaechi, in an elevated piece on February 24, 2022, raised…
Business side of Peter Obi’s politics
By Emeka Alex Duru There are times when statesmen rise beyond speech making and face the…
Abba Kyari and irony of Nigeria’s anti-crime initiatives
By Emeka Alex Duru If you attempt an analogy of failed coup plotters in Nigeria and…
Presidency: Declarations without delineations
By Emeka Alex Duru With possible exception of Professor Kingsley Muoghalu of the African Democratic Congress…
Hanifa Abubakar and death of the innocent
By Emeka Alex Duru Since the pathetic story of Hanifa Abubakar, the five-year-old child that was…
APC and threats to Nigeria’s democracy
By Emeka Alex Duru The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) is at war with itself,…
Lekki Tollgate and Nigeria’s killing fields
By Emeka Alex Duru Any Nigerian that does not feel sufficiently piqued by the reports…
The senseless raid on Justice Odili’s home
By Emeka Alex Duru What readily comes to mind at these times of unceasing assault…
Adanma Okpara and leadership failure in the East
By Emeka Alex Duru Let us commence with a prayer for the soul of the…
Orlu and creeping culture of violence
By Emeka Alex Duru As I write, many young men and women of my Orlu…
Anambra as redeeming ground for PDP
By Emeka Alex Duru How the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) approaches the November 6…