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/2023-elections-and-the-road-less-travelled/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=2023-elections-and-the-road-less-travelled https://www.chidoonumah.com/2023-elections-and-the-road-less-travelled/#respond Thu, 26 May 2022 04:37:16 +0000 https://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=13385 By Chido Onumah Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost At the end of this month, other things being equal, Nigeria’s major political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/2023-elections-and-the-road-less-travelled/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/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 https://www.chidoonumah.com/restructuring-buhari-missed-golden-opportunity-gov-dickson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=restructuring-buhari-missed-golden-opportunity-gov-dickson https://www.chidoonumah.com/restructuring-buhari-missed-golden-opportunity-gov-dickson/#respond Sat, 22 Dec 2018 09:02:46 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12072 Bayelsa State Governor, Honourable Henry Seriake Dickson, on Friday extended the frontiers of the restructuring debate, saying President Muhammadu Buhari missed a golden opportunity to become a great statesman by vehemently rejecting his party, the All Progressives Congress’s position on the restructuring of Nigeria. He also said that it is a major tragedy for Nigeria […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/restructuring-buhari-missed-golden-opportunity-gov-dickson/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/looking-back-40-years-ago/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=looking-back-40-years-ago https://www.chidoonumah.com/looking-back-40-years-ago/#respond Mon, 19 Feb 2018 22:51:12 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=11306 By Edwin Madunagu Late in the evening of August 6, 1977, eight Nigerian socialists, resident in Calabar, met in that city and formed the Calabar Group of Socialists (CGS). Calabar was then the capital of “old” Cross River State, covering the present Cross River and Akwa Ibom States. Attending this foundation and inaugural meeting were […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/looking-back-40-years-ago/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/recalling-the-russian-revolution/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=recalling-the-russian-revolution https://www.chidoonumah.com/recalling-the-russian-revolution/#respond Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:35:48 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=11297 By Edwin Madunagu The aim of this condensed article is not to invite readers to join me in remembering the late Soviet Union. Rather, the aim is to recall the thunderous birth, a hundred years ago, of a state which put workers’ power and socialism on the agenda of global political contestation, a mighty revolutionary […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/recalling-the-russian-revolution/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/gov-okorocha-of-tyranny-and-discontent/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gov-okorocha-of-tyranny-and-discontent https://www.chidoonumah.com/gov-okorocha-of-tyranny-and-discontent/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2018 05:24:28 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=11214 By Chido Onumah A very significant event—a peaceful mass protest against the misgovernance and mindless plunder of Imo State by Mr. Rochas Okorocha—took place in Owerri exactly a month ago, on Monday, December 18, 2017. It was organized by the Imo Peoples Action for Democracy (IPAD), a coalition of civil society and professional groups in […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/gov-okorocha-of-tyranny-and-discontent/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/shadow-of-nigerias-biafra-war-still-looms-large-50-years-on/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=shadow-of-nigerias-biafra-war-still-looms-large-50-years-on https://www.chidoonumah.com/shadow-of-nigerias-biafra-war-still-looms-large-50-years-on/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:40:46 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=10985 https://www.chidoonumah.com/shadow-of-nigerias-biafra-war-still-looms-large-50-years-on/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/can-nigeria-and-cameroon-learn-any-lessons-from-catalonia/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=can-nigeria-and-cameroon-learn-any-lessons-from-catalonia https://www.chidoonumah.com/can-nigeria-and-cameroon-learn-any-lessons-from-catalonia/#respond Mon, 30 Oct 2017 19:00:34 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=10981 The crisis in Spain’s Catalonia region is being closely watched in Nigeria and Cameroon, where secessionist movements have been stepping up campaigns for independence, as BBC Pidgin editor Adejuwon Soyinka reports. Many Nigerians and Cameroonians were looking to Spain, hoping it would find a peaceful solution to demands for independence in the Catalan region. But […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/can-nigeria-and-cameroon-learn-any-lessons-from-catalonia/feed/ 0