https://www.chidoonumah.com Informed commentaries, news and progressive analysis of topical events in Nigeria, Africa and around the world Fri, 18 Mar 2022 05:30:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.chidoonumah.com/i-feel-the-weight-of-africas-historic-progressives/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=i-feel-the-weight-of-africas-historic-progressives https://www.chidoonumah.com/i-feel-the-weight-of-africas-historic-progressives/#respond Fri, 18 Mar 2022 05:30:15 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13294 By Charles Chukwuma Soludo PROTOCOL   Umunne m Ndi Anambra, I applied for this job; my party, (the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA) shortlisted me, and you—umunne m Ndi Anambra—interviewed and employed me as your chief servant, with Dr. Onyekachukwu Gilbert Ibezim as my deputy. God ordained this moment, and we are grateful to Him […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/i-feel-the-weight-of-africas-historic-progressives/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/thechampions-cancer-documentary-film-by-projectpinkblue/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=thechampions-cancer-documentary-film-by-projectpinkblue https://www.chidoonumah.com/thechampions-cancer-documentary-film-by-projectpinkblue/#respond Mon, 21 Feb 2022 20:00:26 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13235 We spent over three years working on this Cancer Documentary Film titled #TheChampions The Champions is a real-life story of three African women who had breast cancer – Mama Nnenne was diagnosed with early breast cancer and she survived, while Comfort was diagnosed with HER2 positive stage II breast cancer, painfully she could not raise […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/thechampions-cancer-documentary-film-by-projectpinkblue/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/introducing-taiwo-adebowale-jante/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introducing-taiwo-adebowale-jante https://www.chidoonumah.com/introducing-taiwo-adebowale-jante/#respond Mon, 27 Dec 2021 04:46:59 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13182 Early life and education Taiwo Adebowale is a Nigerian civil rights advocate, political activist, and grassroots mobilizer. He was born in Gyadi-gyadi in Tarauni Local Government Area of Kano State on March 28, 1979. He hails from Ipetu-Ijesha in Oriade Local Government Area of Osun State. Popularly known as Jante, Taiwo, on the paternal side, […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/introducing-taiwo-adebowale-jante/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/remakingnigeria-education-economic-diversification-freedom-of-speech-and-constitutional-review-take-centre-stage-at-wole-soyinka-media-lecture-series/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remakingnigeria-education-economic-diversification-freedom-of-speech-and-constitutional-review-take-centre-stage-at-wole-soyinka-media-lecture-series https://www.chidoonumah.com/remakingnigeria-education-economic-diversification-freedom-of-speech-and-constitutional-review-take-centre-stage-at-wole-soyinka-media-lecture-series/#respond Sat, 17 Jul 2021 08:06:38 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13088 Speakers at the 13th Wole Soyinka Media Lecture Series held Tuesday, July 13, 2021, in Lagos to commemorate Professor Wole Soyinka’s 87th birthday, have called for community-based education, diversification of the economy, vibrant and sustainable media, equity, justice and inclusion of women for remaking Nigeria. The speakers – Inibehe Effiong, Principal Counsel/Head of chambers, Inibehe […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/remakingnigeria-education-economic-diversification-freedom-of-speech-and-constitutional-review-take-centre-stage-at-wole-soyinka-media-lecture-series/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/clarifications-and-re-statements/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=clarifications-and-re-statements https://www.chidoonumah.com/clarifications-and-re-statements/#respond Sat, 03 Apr 2021 07:28:33 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13021 By Edwin Madunagu  My last article, “Further notes to the Nigerian Left” (late February 2021), was a deliberately condensed message. It was so because I feared that Nigeria was approaching another dangerous bend in its history. I therefore wanted to indicate, even for my own self-assurance, where the movement could stand and all that it could […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/clarifications-and-re-statements/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/fix-the-politics-until-we-elect-them-men-and-women-with-a-heart-for-selfless-service-we-labour-in-vain/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fix-the-politics-until-we-elect-them-men-and-women-with-a-heart-for-selfless-service-we-labour-in-vain https://www.chidoonumah.com/fix-the-politics-until-we-elect-them-men-and-women-with-a-heart-for-selfless-service-we-labour-in-vain/#respond Mon, 16 Nov 2020 21:45:19 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12844 By Dike Chukwuemerije   A broken road does not understand Igbo It will not maim the Fulani and let the rest of us go The accidents it will cause will take all lives For when a vehicle somersaults it breaks all bones   So, you can speak Nupe till morning comes It will not build […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/fix-the-politics-until-we-elect-them-men-and-women-with-a-heart-for-selfless-service-we-labour-in-vain/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/new-broadcast-code-as-albatross-to-freedom-of-speech-in-nigeria/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-broadcast-code-as-albatross-to-freedom-of-speech-in-nigeria https://www.chidoonumah.com/new-broadcast-code-as-albatross-to-freedom-of-speech-in-nigeria/#respond Tue, 25 Aug 2020 04:49:55 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12706 By Judex Okoro In any democratic dispensation, the media plays a significant role of traditionally informing, educating, and entertaining the society. Besides, in every sane clime, the media holds those in position of authorities accountable to the people; the media protects citizens’ rights and privileges to ensure that leaders don’t transform into dictators overnight by trampling […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/new-broadcast-code-as-albatross-to-freedom-of-speech-in-nigeria/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-soyinka-at-86-and-a-scoop-denied/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=for-soyinka-at-86-and-a-scoop-denied https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-soyinka-at-86-and-a-scoop-denied/#respond Sat, 11 Jul 2020 05:40:52 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12623 By Godwin Onyeacholem Just off Ozumba Mbadiwe Street in Victoria Island, immediately behind a cluster of residential apartments popularly known as 1004 flats, and directly opposite a quaint one-storey building on the other side of Adetokunbo Ademola Street, lay a row of bungalows finely spruced up with middle-class taste. It was in one of these […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/for-soyinka-at-86-and-a-scoop-denied/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/whistleblowing-covid-19-sparks-rising-deaths-in-nigerian-hospitals-due-to-lack-of-ppe-for-healthworkers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=whistleblowing-covid-19-sparks-rising-deaths-in-nigerian-hospitals-due-to-lack-of-ppe-for-healthworkers https://www.chidoonumah.com/whistleblowing-covid-19-sparks-rising-deaths-in-nigerian-hospitals-due-to-lack-of-ppe-for-healthworkers/#respond Fri, 10 Jul 2020 05:38:48 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12611 The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly a worldwide threat to public health. But in Nigeria, the shortage of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to support clinical rescue has especially hastened deaths of patients suffering from other diseases. Lives of non-coronavirus patients suffering from acute respiratory distress, pneumonia, and malaria with symptoms suggestive of Sars-Cov2 infection are wasting […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/whistleblowing-covid-19-sparks-rising-deaths-in-nigerian-hospitals-due-to-lack-of-ppe-for-healthworkers/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/sixty-years-sixty-voices-essays-on-nigeria-at-60/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sixty-years-sixty-voices-essays-on-nigeria-at-60 https://www.chidoonumah.com/sixty-years-sixty-voices-essays-on-nigeria-at-60/#respond Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:36:33 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12486 By Chido Onumah On October 1, 2020, Nigeria will celebrate her 60th year of political independence. Our diamond jubilee is a remarkable milestone worthy of significant documentation even as the country is deeply immersed in the crisis of nationhood. In furtherance of this objective, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) and partners […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/sixty-years-sixty-voices-essays-on-nigeria-at-60/feed/ 0