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Closing Ranks around a Pragmatic Ideal: An Information and Technology Knowledge Manifesto

By Uche Onuora

“Conscienceless men are in power and powerless men are the ones who have conscience; that is the Nigerian dilemma.”Mohammed Dikko Yusuf, a former ...

Social & Political Issues May 26, 2004

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT - 1

By Uchenna Akwiwu

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE PRESIDENT - 1ByUchenna Akwiwu ura_ohaeri@yahoo.com Dear Sir:The Golden Future, The Promise of our New Generation, Must...

Social & Political Issues

AN EXTRAPOLATION OF HOME: LESSONS FROM ATLANTA

By Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora

Home is where the heart is. When I argued that Andrew must go back home in my address at the NIDO convention, that is precisely what I meant. It will ...

Social & Political Issues Oct 22, 2004

Achebe’s Refusal of Nigerian National “Honor” Award: Matters Arising

By Mobolaji E. Aluko, Ph.D.

IntroductionI had sworn before now never to add “Matters Arising” to the end of the title of any of my essays, but as I look at this Achebe Affair...

Social & Political Issues Nov 14, 2005

Back To The Trenches

By Godwin Agbroko

culled from THISDAY, November 14, 2005On the face of it, the dramatic formation of the Movement for the of Democracy (MDD) on the 7th of this month in...

Social & Political Issues Aug 31, 2005

Census 2005: Who Is Afraid of Numbers?

By P.I. Uche

culled from Guardian, August 31, 2005The national census for any country provides a very important and indeed indispensable data source for planning, ...

Social & Political Issues

BLOWBACK IS A BITCH: DRAWING PARALLELS BETWEEN UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

By Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora

War, the experts say, is organized chaos. The just concluded campaign in Iraq has demonstrated the logical correctness of that assertion and has prove...

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A DOSE OF OPTIMISM IN A SEA OF DYSTOPIA

By Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora

The other day I was watching Amistad for the second time since I first watched it when it hit movie theatres in 1997. After I watched the movie the fi...

Social & Political Issues Mar 23, 2005

Every Hand In The Pocket

By Eziuche Ubani

culled from THIS DAY, March 24, 2005When the House of Representatives gave the marching orders to its member, Dr. Haruna Yerima, for alleged unparliam...

Social & Political Issues

HAS THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT FINALLY COME TO NIGERIA?

By Chukwuemeka Uche Onuora

The underlying cautious optimism expressed in the title of this piece is an indication of the subtle changes that experts on the ground and soldiers i...