Chido Onumah
Vanguard Newspapers
Atlanta, GA, United States
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2023 elections and the road less travelled
OTHER things being equal, the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, will soon, like the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, select its presidential candidate for the February 2023 general election. → Read More
2023 Elections And The Road Less Travelled By Chido Onumah
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), will select their presidential candidates for the February 2023 general election. By hook or by crook, one of these two candidates will emerge president next year. → Read More
2023 elections and the road less travelled, By Chido Onumah
Perhaps, 2023 offers us a rare chance to revisit the vexed questions of belongingness, inclusivity, equity, and justice. → Read More
Celebrating Innocent Chukwuemeka Chukwuma, 1966-2021, By Chido Onumah
On Thursday, April 7, in Abuja, there will be an official launch of a foundation in honour of Innocent Chukwuma, the Innocent Chukwuemeka Chukwuma Empowerment Foundation (ICCEF). This will be followed by the official launch of an academic chair and fellowship, the Innocent Chukwuma Social Impact Chair and Fellowship (ICSICF) on Friday, May 13, the […] → Read More
Celebrating Innocent Chukwuemeka Chukwuma: 1966-2021 By Chido Onumah
Innocent Chukwuma, or Innoma, as I called him, was 55, and the immediate past Regional Director (West Africa) of Ford Foundation. He was full of life and ideas. His death was devastating in many ways. It depleted the ranks of civil society and human rights activists in Nigeria, which has suffered severe blows in the last two decades from the death of the inveterate organizer and leading… → Read More
Ikengaonline: Salvaging The Southeast, By Chido Onumah & Osmund Agbo
In place of the Age-Grade system and Council of Elders is the political class, ever ready to sell the people and mortgage their future on a whim. → Read More
FEATURE: Anambra Neni Community: An Example to Follow In Development
Private Initiative leads to 24KM of tarred internal roads in Neni. Community set to rebuild schools. → Read More
For Edwin Madunagu, A Revolutionary Icon, At 75, By Chido Onumah
Edwin Ikechukwu Madunagu who turns 75 on May 15, 2021, has been a consistent voice for the radical transformation of Nigeria in the last five decades. For this reason, comrades, friends, associates, and students, will organize a conference on the theme: “Progressive Politics as the Answer to the National Question: Problems and Prospects,” to celebrate […] → Read More
Between Hushpuppi and Hushpoliticians, By Chido Onumah
We should not lose sight of the bigger problem: the issue of restructuring Nigeria, as well as the current leadership void in the country. → Read More
Between Hushpuppi And Hushpoliticians By Chido Onumah
...Nigerian Hushpoliticians are enablers of Hushpuppi and company; the Hushpolitician is the father of Hushpuppi. → Read More
Sixty Years, Sixty Voices: Essays On Nigeria At 60 By Chido Onumah
It is our expectation that the essays in the book will analyze the realities in the socio-economic, political and cultural life of the country since independence and answer questions on why Nigeria remains a giant with clay feet despite the availability of abundant human and mineral resources envied by other nations. → Read More
Sixty Years, Sixty Voices: Essays on Nigeria at 60, By Chido Onumah
On October 1, 2020, Nigeria will celebrate her 60th year of political independence. Our diamond jubilee is a remarkable milestone worthy of significant documentation even as the country is deeply immersed in the crisis of nationhood. In furtherance of this objective, the African Centre for Media and Information Literacy (AFRICMIL) … → Read More
Of Victors and Vanquished: Biafra, 50 Years After, By Chido Onumah
e will be deluding ourselves to think for once that the civil war is over. → Read More
Of Victors And Vanquished: Biafra, 50 Years After By Chido Onumah
Nigeria can still redeem itself. It has been 50 years since we proclaimed, “No Victors, No Vanquished.” It is time to truly end the war; and it is not just the war against Biafra, as Soyinka noted, but that against the millions of duped and dispossessed citizens. That is the only way we can avert another war! → Read More
End Of Discussion: Deathly Ban On Free Expression And Rise Of Fascism By Chido Onumah
Two dangerous bills are currently in the National Assembly seeking not only to establish an “Independent National Commission for the prohibition of hate speeches” but to curtail free expression and take state repression of alternative voices to a whole new level by making the right to hold contrary views a capital offence. Social media and the civic space are the new arenas in Gen. Buhari’s… → Read More
MIL and the Challenge of New Media Technologies, By Chido Onumah & Olunifesi Suraj
Introduction Information rules the world today. More often than not, the type of information we receive affects our choices, our relationship with others, the quality of life we live, the kind of influence we have on others, the extent to which others influence us, the kinds of activities we undertake … → Read More
MIL And The Challenge Of New Media Technologies By Chido Onumah and Olunifesi Suraj
While Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights talks about everyone’s “right to freedom of opinion and expression”, it is important, according to UNESCO, to equip citizens with competencies needed to seek and enjoy the full benefits of this fundamental human right. Media and Information Literacy as a field of engagement provides citizens with the requisite competencies for the… → Read More
Stemming The Crisis At NBET And Solving Our Electricity Problem By Chido Onumah
The crisis at NBET and by extension, the power sector, is one that needs to be addressed squarely. And the reason is simple. The power sector is central to the growth of the Nigerian economy. The corruption in the power sector is responsible for the inability of the government to solve the problem of poor electricity in the country and NBET, from available reports, is at the centre of the… → Read More
For Pius Adesanmi, For Nigeria!, By Chido Onumah
“Pius Adesanmi must have lived two or more lifetimes in one.” → Read More
For Pius Adesanmi, For Nigeria! By Chido Onumah
Pius didn’t suffer fools gladly and pulled no punches when it came to explaining the dire conditions in Nigeria and confronting the inanities of those responsible for our current national trauma → Read More