By Tochukwu Ezukanma The ban on Igbo songs by a Catholic priest, James Anelu, at his parish church in Ikorodu, Lagos State, irked the sensibilities of...
By Tochukwu Ezukanma The Anambra State gubernatorial election is scheduled for November 6th, 2021. Quite naturally, different political parties and their political nominees are relentlessly, stridently...
By Tochukwu Ezukanma The different peoples of Nigeria made contiguous by geography, roped together by British colonialism, and bound by political and economic forces, and to...
By Tochukwu Ezukanma History has demonstrated that democracy is a fount of political stability, social justice, rule of law, principled distribution of wealth and over all...
By Tochukwu Ezukanma In one of her gossipy moods, my flibbertigibbet sister-in-law talked about me, “He is so full of himself”. To her, it was a...
By Tochukwu Ezukanma To characterize a scale of mass-murder that defied the English lexicon, Raphael Lemkin coined a new word, “genocide”, from the Greek word “geno”,...
By Tochukwu Ezukanma The former American Secretary of State, Mrs. Hillary Clinton, once summed up the follies of the Nigerian power elite, “They have squandered their...
By Tochukwu Ezukanma Many Nigerians gloated over the invasion of the United States’ Capitol by President Trump’s supporters because they subliminally found solace in it. The...
By Tochukwu Ezukanma Power, not tenoned and mortised – dictatorial and tyrannical powers – is hypnotic, and sometimes, deranging. Not surprisingly, history is strewn with lamentable...
By Tochukwu Ezukanma A friend of mine employed a Hausa/Fulani security guard. With time, a number of other Hausa/Fulani came to live with his security guard....