Tag: Chido Onumah
DSS: Chido Onumah not arrested, we saved him from mob attack
The Department of State Services (DSS) has denied ever arresting journalist and rights activist Chido Onumah, but rather it tried…
DSS frees Chido Onumah
The Department of State Services has released Chido Onumah, the journalist, political activist who was arrested at the Abuja airport…
Chido Onumah, another Buhari critic arrested
Chido Onumah, journalist, rights activist and coordinator of African Centre for Media & Information Literacy(AFRICIMIL) has been arrested by the…
Dear President Buhari, Nigeria’s unity is negotiable!
Chido Onumah Since the public presentation of the book We Are All Biafrans and the intervention of a former vice…
Buhari, ‘Legislooters’ And The Change Agenda
By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem Wind the critically slurred legislative tape back to the first National Assembly of the…
Nigeria, History And The Clear And Present Danger
By Chido Onumah These are perturbing times. On the eve of what promises to be Nigeria’s fiercest election, one that…
2015 Elections: The Easy Choice Before Nigerians
By Chido Onumah I do not think Nigerians have a difficult choice to make when they go to the polls…
For Soyinka And The Men In My Life!
By Chido Onumah In the last three and half decades, whether as a student, rights activist, journalist, author, researcher and…
Biafra, June 12, Boko Haram And The Future Of Nigeria (2)
By Chido Onumah For a people in search of a meaningful national identity, I worry when we miss any opportunity…
Biafra, June 12, Boko Haram And The Future Of Nigeria (1)
By Chido Onumah Nigeria’s celebrated novelist, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is an interviewer’s delight, whether she is talking about Nigeria, novels,…
Buccaneers As Statesmen
By Chido Onumah I have always advocated for a full-scale socio-political restructuring of Nigeria. The reason is simple. Unless we…
One Week, One Tragedy
By Chido Onumah It’s almost a week since the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) job recruitment tragedy that claimed the lives…
Will Nigeria Disintegrate?
By Chido Onumah Nigeria’s President, Goodluck Jonathan, today, Monday, March 17, 2014, inaugurated the 492-member National Conference whose task is…
Salute To The Insight Newspaper @ 20
By Chido Onumah I am happy writing about twenty years of what has become an institution, one that is very…
Nigeria Is Negotiable: A Narrative Of Nigeria’s Leadership Crisis
By Godwin Onyeacholem A new and provocative book titled “Nigeria Is Negotiable” has blamed Nigeria’s leaders for the country’s woes.…
Time To Negotiate Nigeria
By Chido Onumah I borrowed the title of this piece from my new book, ‘Nigeria is Negotiable’, which is due…
Govs Fayemi, Aregbesola, Others To Unveil Book
Governors Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State and Rauf Aregbesola of the State of Osun are billed to unveil a new…
A Case For “True” Federalism
By Chido Onumah No topic has generated as much interest in the ongoing bogus constitution amendment process as the issue…
Her Excellency, Madam President
By Chido Onumah If there was any doubt that she is in charge of the country, it was dispelled with…
Waiting For Tambuwal’s Revolution
By Chido Onumah This piece has nothing to do with what is happening in Egypt. Ultimately, Nigerians, based on their…
2015: Why Buhari Matters
By Chido Onumah & Godwin Onyeacholem We must state unequivocally that we have no illusion about the present order. We…
Still On Jonathan, Opposition And 2015
By Chido Onumah I would be deluding myself if I imagined that my article last week, “2015: Who will defeat…
June 12: How Can We Forget? (2)
By Chido Onumah “I betrayed my very genuine friend for 25 years. From the day we met, there was rapport.…
June 12: How Can We Forget? (1)
By Chido Onumah “Reading about the June 12 period, for obvious reasons, is difficult for me, even now, 20 years…
The Achebe I knew
By Chido Onumah “Indiscipline pervades our life so completely that one may be justified in calling it the condition par…
President Jonathan As “Big Brother”
By Chido Onumah Typical of the Jonathan regime, it took the effort of investigative journalists – this time, the reporters…
Can APC Cure Nigeria’s Headache? (2)
By Chido Onumah I have no illusions about the challenges (some of which are beginning to manifest) and limitations of…
IBB’s Two Party Solution
By Chido Onumah Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, also known as IBB, must be a deeply-troubled man; a retired general haunted by…
No Country For Petty Thieves
By Chido Onumah Nigerians are outraged, justifiably so, at the shenanigans of the country’s judiciary which led to the ridiculously…
The Assault On Public Education
By Chido Onumah There has been a hue and cry about the collapse of public institutions and infrastructure in Nigeria,…