https://www.chidoonumah.com Informed commentaries, news and progressive analysis of topical events in Nigeria, Africa and around the world Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:22:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-innocent-chukwuma-for-nigeria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=for-innocent-chukwuma-for-nigeria https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-innocent-chukwuma-for-nigeria/#respond Wed, 03 Apr 2024 17:22:57 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13439  By Chido Onumah On Tuesday, February 6, 2024, family, friends, and associates gathered at a Virtual Stakeholders’ Meeting to mark the one year of operation of the Innocent Chukwuemeka Chukwuma Empowerment Foundation (ICCEF). Founded in April 2022 in honour of Innocent Chukwuemeka Chukwuma, “to continue his impactful work and build on his numerous legacies,” ICCEF commenced […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-innocent-chukwuma-for-nigeria/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/buharis-toothache-and-a-nation-in-its-death-throes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buharis-toothache-and-a-nation-in-its-death-throes https://www.chidoonumah.com/buharis-toothache-and-a-nation-in-its-death-throes/#respond Fri, 26 May 2023 08:40:34 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13434 By Chido Onumah General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) will leave office on May 29 after eight uneventful years. We hope it is the last time we hear from a man who rode to power eight years ago promising to end insecurity, strengthen the economy and fight corruption, none of which he achieved. Thankfully, he has vowed […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/buharis-toothache-and-a-nation-in-its-death-throes/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/book-on-nigeria-at-60-set-for-launch-august-19/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-on-nigeria-at-60-set-for-launch-august-19 https://www.chidoonumah.com/book-on-nigeria-at-60-set-for-launch-august-19/#respond Tue, 17 Aug 2021 05:51:32 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13117 Press Release                                                                       August 16, 2021         The public presentation of a new book titled Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices will hold on Thursday, August 19, 2021, at the Yar ‘Adua Centre, Abuja. Edited by Chido Onumah, the 437-page book is a collection of 60 essays by 60 young Nigerians to commemorate the […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/book-on-nigeria-at-60-set-for-launch-august-19/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/open-letter-to-the-most-senior-biafran-in-buharis-government/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=open-letter-to-the-most-senior-biafran-in-buharis-government https://www.chidoonumah.com/open-letter-to-the-most-senior-biafran-in-buharis-government/#respond Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:16:26 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13068 By Rudolf Okonkwo and Chido Onumah Dear Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Jideofor Onyeama, We chose to write you instead of President Muhammadu Buhari because it is apparent from the president’s two most recent media outings that his cognitive impairment has greatly deteriorated, even though that is no justification for his murderous and […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/open-letter-to-the-most-senior-biafran-in-buharis-government/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-edwin-madunagu-a-revolutionary-icon-at-75/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=for-edwin-madunagu-a-revolutionary-icon-at-75 https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-edwin-madunagu-a-revolutionary-icon-at-75/#respond Thu, 13 May 2021 20:25:53 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13043 By Chido Onumah Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu who turns 75 on May 15, 2021, has been a consistent voice for the radical transformation of Nigeria in the last five decades. For this reason, comrades, friends, associates, and students, will organize a conference on the theme: “Progressive Politics as the Answer to the National Question: Problems and […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-edwin-madunagu-a-revolutionary-icon-at-75/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/we-have-lost-our-innocent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=we-have-lost-our-innocent https://www.chidoonumah.com/we-have-lost-our-innocent/#respond Sun, 18 Apr 2021 21:37:11 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13026 By Chido Onumah Two weeks ago, I lost a comrade, brother, and friend, Innocent Chukwuma. Innoma, as I called him, was 55, and until a few months ago when he retired, the regional director (West Africa) of Ford Foundation. Every waking moment in the last two weeks has left me thinking about life and Innocent […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/we-have-lost-our-innocent/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/the-national-question-and-the-quest-for-restructuring-in-nigeria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-national-question-and-the-quest-for-restructuring-in-nigeria https://www.chidoonumah.com/the-national-question-and-the-quest-for-restructuring-in-nigeria/#respond Tue, 26 Jan 2021 09:03:17 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12949 By Chido Onumah  Introduction To paraphrase the historian, mathematician, journalist, and public intellectual, Edwin Madunagu, every political history has its significant dates, landmarks or turning points. In Nigeria’s political history, for instance, landmarks would include October 1, 1960, (the day Nigeria gained independence from Britain), January 15, 1966, (when the first of what would become […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/the-national-question-and-the-quest-for-restructuring-in-nigeria/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/remaking-nigeria-sixty-years-after/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remaking-nigeria-sixty-years-after https://www.chidoonumah.com/remaking-nigeria-sixty-years-after/#respond Tue, 05 Jan 2021 04:16:21 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12920 By Chido Onumah “…Nation-building is a futuristic venture; it is not something you do looking back. If a nation would be tempted, like Lot’s wife, to keep looking back, perhaps that nation will turn to a pillar of salt.” – Tope Fasua in Remaking Nigeria: Sixty Years, Sixty Voices “A country is as good and […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/remaking-nigeria-sixty-years-after/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-pius-adesanmi-for-nigeria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=for-pius-adesanmi-for-nigeria https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-pius-adesanmi-for-nigeria/#respond Tue, 12 Mar 2019 12:16:09 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12169 By Chido Onumah Pius Adesanmi, Carleton University’s Professor of literature and African studies who died in the Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crash near the town of Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on Sunday, March10, was a consummate intellectual and civic activist. Pius was visible in academic and intellectual circles around the world as he was on social media […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-pius-adesanmi-for-nigeria/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/options-in-nigerias-2019-presidential-elections/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=options-in-nigerias-2019-presidential-elections https://www.chidoonumah.com/options-in-nigerias-2019-presidential-elections/#respond Thu, 14 Feb 2019 17:05:27 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12137 By Chido Onumah 2019 can rightly be described as Africa’s election year. More than ten countries, including two—Nigeria and South Africa—of the continent’s three power houses will conduct general or presidential elections between February and December. In the month of February alone, Nigeria will be joined by Senegal, where elections hold on February 24, to […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/options-in-nigerias-2019-presidential-elections/feed/ 0