https://www.chidoonumah.com Informed commentaries, news and progressive analysis of topical events in Nigeria, Africa and around the world Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:50:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.chidoonumah.com/lessons-of-nigerias-elections-2019/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lessons-of-nigerias-elections-2019 https://www.chidoonumah.com/lessons-of-nigerias-elections-2019/#respond Thu, 04 Apr 2019 08:50:06 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=12179 By Edwin Madunagu The lessons of Nigeria’s Elections 2019 to which I  refer here are not abstract lessons-in-general or lessons-for-all-time, but concrete lessons that emerged for the use of political forces on the Nigerian Left that see the urgent need of re-dedication to the great cause and arduous task of building people’s power, popular democracy, […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/lessons-of-nigerias-elections-2019/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/apc-change-and-lack-of-internal-party-democracy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=apc-change-and-lack-of-internal-party-democracy https://www.chidoonumah.com/apc-change-and-lack-of-internal-party-democracy/#respond Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:12:29 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=5622 By Kennedy Emetulu Many Nigerians are not only deliberately or conveniently and even inconveniently amnesic about their past, they are also lying to themselves about their future. This explains why we cannot seem to correct basic governance mistakes, even after we have suffered for decades from such mistakes and even after we have been repeatedly […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/apc-change-and-lack-of-internal-party-democracy/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/at-least-four-journalists-attacked-in-nigeria-in-one-week-cpj/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=at-least-four-journalists-attacked-in-nigeria-in-one-week-cpj https://www.chidoonumah.com/at-least-four-journalists-attacked-in-nigeria-in-one-week-cpj/#respond Sat, 06 Jun 2015 18:13:12 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=5596 Abuja, Nigeria, June 5, 2015 – At least four journalists have been attacked in Nigeria, and one forced to flee his state, in the past week, according to news reports and one of the journalists. The attacks occurred in the same week that the Committee to Protect Journalists wrote an open letter to new President […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/at-least-four-journalists-attacked-in-nigeria-in-one-week-cpj/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/a-cue-for-buhari-on-electricity-crisis/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-cue-for-buhari-on-electricity-crisis https://www.chidoonumah.com/a-cue-for-buhari-on-electricity-crisis/#respond Tue, 02 Jun 2015 22:27:08 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=5555 By SKC Ogbonnia May 29th, 2015 has come and gone. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan is now a former president, and Nigeria’s prevalent electricity crisis is no longer his headache. The problem is now wholly owned by Muhammadu Buhari, the new President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces. Thus far, Buhari has […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/a-cue-for-buhari-on-electricity-crisis/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/good-luck-president-elect-buhari/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=good-luck-president-elect-buhari https://www.chidoonumah.com/good-luck-president-elect-buhari/#respond Tue, 26 May 2015 19:11:45 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=5464 By Femi Aribisala It is all going to happen within four days. Four days to the great national revival and renewal. Four days to the rejuvenation and restoration of the Nigerian economy. Four days to the great “changi” we have all been waiting for. Four days to the arrival of the Nigerian messiah, Muhammadu Buhari. […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/good-luck-president-elect-buhari/feed/ 0 https://www.chidoonumah.com/if-nigerias-finance-minister-is-dumped-africa-will-lose-an-important-voice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=if-nigerias-finance-minister-is-dumped-africa-will-lose-an-important-voice https://www.chidoonumah.com/if-nigerias-finance-minister-is-dumped-africa-will-lose-an-important-voice/#comments Sat, 09 May 2015 10:15:07 +0000 http://www.chidoonumah.com/?p=5329 By Kalu Ojah In the wake of the Nigerian election, speculation has been growing that Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will be dumped from Muhammadu Buhari’s new government. Were that to happen, Africa would lose an important voice in the global development space. Consider the recent spring meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund […]]]> https://www.chidoonumah.com/if-nigerias-finance-minister-is-dumped-africa-will-lose-an-important-voice/feed/ 2