https://www.chidoonumah.com Informed commentaries, news and progressive analysis of topical events in Nigeria, Africa and around the world Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:53:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://www.chidoonumah.com/if-i-am-president-the-movie-official-trailer/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-i-am-president-the-movie-official-trailer https://www.chidoonumah.com/if-i-am-president-the-movie-official-trailer/#respond Sat, 06 Oct 2018 16:53:21 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=11935 https://www.chidoonumah.com/if-i-am-president-the-movie-official-trailer/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/farm-in-the-morning-school-in-the-afternoon-life-of-government-junior-secondary-school-students-in-gombe-state/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=farm-in-the-morning-school-in-the-afternoon-life-of-government-junior-secondary-school-students-in-gombe-state https://www.chidoonumah.com/farm-in-the-morning-school-in-the-afternoon-life-of-government-junior-secondary-school-students-in-gombe-state/#respond Mon, 17 Sep 2018 18:01:53 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=11884 https://www.chidoonumah.com/farm-in-the-morning-school-in-the-afternoon-life-of-government-junior-secondary-school-students-in-gombe-state/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/africmil-technical-workshop-on-whistleblowing-for-law-enforcement-and-revenue-generating-agencies/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=africmil-technical-workshop-on-whistleblowing-for-law-enforcement-and-revenue-generating-agencies https://www.chidoonumah.com/africmil-technical-workshop-on-whistleblowing-for-law-enforcement-and-revenue-generating-agencies/#respond Mon, 02 Jul 2018 21:00:48 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=11666 https://www.chidoonumah.com/africmil-technical-workshop-on-whistleblowing-for-law-enforcement-and-revenue-generating-agencies/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/africmil-seeks-partnership-with-national-orientation-agency-on-whistleblowing/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=africmil-seeks-partnership-with-national-orientation-agency-on-whistleblowing https://www.chidoonumah.com/africmil-seeks-partnership-with-national-orientation-agency-on-whistleblowing/#respond Fri, 16 Feb 2018 11:28:40 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=11288 The Coordinator of the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL), Chido Onumah, has urged Nigerians to count it a duty to expose corruption without setting their minds on some reward in return. He said this when he led a delegation on a courtesy call to the National Orientation Agency (NOA) in Abuja on […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/africmil-seeks-partnership-with-national-orientation-agency-on-whistleblowing/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/buhari-and-apc-of-magic-chaanji-and-chains/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=buhari-and-apc-of-magic-chaanji-and-chains https://www.chidoonumah.com/buhari-and-apc-of-magic-chaanji-and-chains/#respond Sun, 29 May 2016 00:49:12 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=8518 By Ik Muo This is not an assessment of the first year tenure of the author and finisher of body language or how APC has fared as a party in power, rather than an opposition party. I have been working on this article for a long while but things have been happening in such a […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/buhari-and-apc-of-magic-chaanji-and-chains/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/fulani-herdsmen-and-true-federalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fulani-herdsmen-and-true-federalism https://www.chidoonumah.com/fulani-herdsmen-and-true-federalism/#respond Sat, 21 May 2016 23:00:12 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=8451 By Chinweizu The struggle for True Federalism suffered a big setback at the Jonathan Confab; but it is now back on the agenda. The menace from Fulani Herdsmen and Fulani Militia has brought it back. In the last two decades there have been numerous reports of Fulani Herdsmen committing crimes in their host communities all […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/fulani-herdsmen-and-true-federalism/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/why-government-increased-petrol-price-to-n145-per-litre-kachikwu/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-government-increased-petrol-price-to-n145-per-litre-kachikwu https://www.chidoonumah.com/why-government-increased-petrol-price-to-n145-per-litre-kachikwu/#respond Wed, 11 May 2016 23:26:22 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=8342 Press Statement We have just finished a meeting of various stakeholders presided over by His Excellency, the Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The meeting had in attendance the Leadership of the Senate, House of Representatives, Governors Forum, and Labour Unions (NLC, TUC, NUPENG, and PENGASSAN). The meeting reviewed: The current fuel scarcity […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/why-government-increased-petrol-price-to-n145-per-litre-kachikwu/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/saraki-on-why-he-is-being-persecuted-reply-to-dele-momodus-my-candid-letter-to-saraki/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=saraki-on-why-he-is-being-persecuted-reply-to-dele-momodus-my-candid-letter-to-saraki https://www.chidoonumah.com/saraki-on-why-he-is-being-persecuted-reply-to-dele-momodus-my-candid-letter-to-saraki/#respond Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:52:52 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=8186 By Bukola Saraki My dear brother Dele, let me thank you most sincerely for your article last weekend, “My Candid Letter to Saraki.” (http://goo.gl/tvkkaM) I take everything you said in that article to heart and I must commend you for your candidness indeed and the sincerity of your intentions. As you said in your article, […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/saraki-on-why-he-is-being-persecuted-reply-to-dele-momodus-my-candid-letter-to-saraki/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/africas-airline-graveyard-piles-up-senegal-shuts-down-national-carrier-amid-110-million-debt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=africas-airline-graveyard-piles-up-senegal-shuts-down-national-carrier-amid-110-million-debt https://www.chidoonumah.com/africas-airline-graveyard-piles-up-senegal-shuts-down-national-carrier-amid-110-million-debt/#respond Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:51:09 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=8095 SENEGAL has withdrawn the operating license of its national carrier Senegal Airlines, which has accumulated 65 billion CFA francs ($110 million) in debt and no longer owns any planes.  The airline “has never been able to achieve its goals” since its creation in 2009, according to a statement from the Transport Ministry.  Though Africa has over […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/africas-airline-graveyard-piles-up-senegal-shuts-down-national-carrier-amid-110-million-debt/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/state-governments-must-comply-with-procurement-law-standards-in-rehabilitating-federal-roads-speakerdogara/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=state-governments-must-comply-with-procurement-law-standards-in-rehabilitating-federal-roads-speakerdogara https://www.chidoonumah.com/state-governments-must-comply-with-procurement-law-standards-in-rehabilitating-federal-roads-speakerdogara/#respond Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:02:42 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=7863 Protocols: It is with great pleasure that I welcome all stakeholders and everyone here to today’s occasion, which is the “INVESTIGATIVE HEARING ON CLAIMS BY STATE GOVERNMENTS OF EXPENDITURE INCURRED ON REHABILITATION OF FEDERAL ROADS IN THEIR STATES” being jointly conducted by the House of Representatives Committees on Works and Finance. This Joint Investigative Hearing […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/state-governments-must-comply-with-procurement-law-standards-in-rehabilitating-federal-roads-speakerdogara/feed/ 0