BY ABADOM LAWRENCE AMECHI PEOPLE elected to provide good governance are increasingly diverting public resources into what they call empowerment—distributing…
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BY ABADOM LAWRENCE AMECHI WHAT seems like a gang-up by some Igbo political elites against Peter Obi is not merely…
BY ABADOM LAWRENCE AMECHI THERE is perhaps no word that has been so badly abused in Nigerian politics as the…
By Abadom Lawrence Amechi OUR DEMOCRACY should be more important to us now than anything else. If we get it…
WHENEVER we hear of tragedy, calamity, or misfortune, our first instinct is to distance ourselves — “It is not my…
WE MUST keep engaging politicians. It will help them improve in their craft. Every field of human endeavour has the…
IN MUCH of Africa, democracy has become a struggle over the continent’s resources. That’s why many politicians behave like hyenas,…
THE RECENT shooting of a suspect in broad daylight, under the watchful eyes of the public, has further devalued the…
THE FIRST step towards advancing our democracy is to ensure that our votes count. What that means is this: if…
I AM SIXTY today, April 27th, 2026. The date alone is testimony. To be born April 27th, 1966, in Nigeria,…