CEREBRAL UPPERCUTS WITH CHIMA AMADI

Introduction: The organisers had asked me to discourse the topic Nigeria: in search of an effective formula for national development....

Presented by Dr. Chima Amadi at the Public Presentation of the Book ‘Politics, X, and Power’ on March 21, 2024 1.Protocols 2. Let me...

“POST-2023 GENERAL ELECTIONS: ASSESSING THE ROLES PLAYED BY THE MEDIA, INEC, SECURITY AGENCIES AND OTHERS” BEING THE PRESENTATION OF DR....

Predictably, the Justices of the Supreme Court, led by Justice Tanko, arrived at the judicial answer to the PDP’s appeal without even...

The INEC has been in the eye of the storm over the announcement by its Chairman that Commissioner Amina Zakari will Head an in-house...

I struggled with myself over making my opinion public on the Atiku Plan. In our clime, nuances of opinion are usually considered an...

ABSTRACT By imperial fiat, the British amalgamated the northern and southern protectorates in 2014 for ease of colonial administration....

Another Election Day rigging strategy is the use of violence where collusion is impracticable. Criminal gangs of thugs are usually hired...

I categorically reject both narratives and will set out to prove in this discourse that the INEC discharged its job creditably and that...

Under the military era in 1999, the crude manipulation of election results that later became the norm is mainly absent. The General...

Mr Chairman, Ladies and gentlemen, without trying to be irreverent and with the most profound respect and regards that I can muster for...

There is a common trait among all Homo Sapiens who belong to that elite class of individuals that run our lives, otherwise known as...

Your Excellency, Naturally, conventional wisdom and etiquette will require that I start by expressing my happiness for the safe return of...

This week’s discourse topic presents an instant problématique for those familiar with my preferred panacea of an institutional approach...

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of...

Ancient Roman mythology, like the earlier Greek and Egyptian myths, is replete with the heroics and evil actions of a pantheon of gods. A...

Expectedly, and in keeping with its proactive approach to elections management, the INEC just released the schedule of activities for the...

While the headline of this week’s discourse may appear sensational, anyone with half-senility knows that President Buhari retains his...

FACT: Before you are done reading the first few lines of this piece, a grand corruption has taken place in Nigeria; if you factor other...

Igbo Ndi-Nwem, The times we find ourselves will not permit me to indulge in the protocol of grandiloquent exultation of our kith and kin,...