Chidi Amuta

A blistering urgency currently envelopes Nigeria. It is an urgency of war, the clear and present danger of an imminent national meltdown. It is a common truth

Chidi AmutaUnited States President Donald Trump seems intent on fulfilling a self- appointed tragic destiny. Every step he takes to avoid being thought weak

On the other hand, calls from fellow Nigerian elite have been somewhat different. They are not surprised about the series of decampments and avalanche of new

In the countdown to the 1993 presidential election between the National Republic Convention(NRC) and the Social Democratic Party (SDP), I served on the think

Democracy and adversity are strange bedfellows. Hungry and deprived people either troop out to vote or look the other way at election time. Deprived people

In times when our national conversation becomes too heated, fuzzy and bogged in intractable controversy, I prefer to take matters to the barber’s shop at

As we trickled into Yemi Ogunbiyi’s cosy bungalow in the Staff Quarters at Ife, we were greeted by pulsating calypso tunes playing from a real stereo

The growing spread of terrorist activity seems to have a disturbing strategic map. From the fringe border states of Borno, Yobe and Katsina, terrorist

It was late Afrobeat musician, Fela Rasome Kuti, who innocently heralded the demystification of uniforms in the public mind. He had this famous song which

In the feverish race towards the 2027 elections, no one is concerned that many Nigerians may be left out of the democratic process. Yet democracy by its