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By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The ultimate recommendation of democracy is this: where a party performs badly it gets voted out. In these shores, it is a different ball game. Even if a party unleashes horrendous hardship on the people, it keeps winning so-called democratic elections. It is only in Nigeria that some characters are making the mad magic of believing ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu It will be all glitz and glamour from 3pm on Saturday, September 14, 2024 at Lavilla Resort Centre, Ngozika Estate, Awka, Anambra State as Chido Obidiegwu launches his book, ‘Beyond Sycophancy’, to mark his 60th birthday. The ebullient and very charismatic Chido Obidiegwu has had a splendored career in advertising, broadcasting and public speaking. He brings to ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The Nigerian economy is in dire straits, and many families cannot make ends meet in the drive for survival. Most of the presidents of African countries have just travelled to China including Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu. The neo-liberal economic policies of the Western world have done a great deal of harm to the economies of Africa, and ...

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Democracy has become a game of blackmail in Nigeria. It is only in Nigeria that some characters are making the mad magic of believing that there can ever be democracy without the presence of democrats. It does appear that the Nigerian politicians and their toadies are quite desperate to eviscerate the normal rule of law that ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The Paris2024 Olympic Games cannot be forgotten in a hurry, especially as the Giant of Africa ended up winning no medal at all. Yes, Nigeria won nothing, as in nought, nil, zilch – ah, my Thesaurus has just started crying in lexical exhaustion. A tear for the old-new anthem, “Nigeria we hail thee”, that never got one ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu These are dangerous days of gross shamelessness in totalitarian Nigeria. Pathetic flaunting of clannish power is all the rage, and a good number of supposedly modern-day Nigerians have thrown their brains into the primordial ring. One pathetic character came to me the other day stressing that the only way I can prove to him that I am ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu The sonorous songstress Onyeka Onwenu has just passed, but my duty here is to add the human angle to the legend of the goddess. Onyeka Onwenu, inimitable singer, ace broadcaster and classy actress took no prisoners in all her undertakings. Back in 1986, in the early days of the defunct THISWEEK magazine, Onyeka was billed to feature ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Protest is all the rage in Nigeria today. Democracy allows for peaceful protest, but it is well-nigh impossible for overzealous state agents and sundry nefarious elements not to conjure up violence to complicate matters. In this wise, the demons of death are on the loose, arranging mayhem and spreading damnation. We walk an ungodly but very familiar ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu These are very dangerous days in Nigeria. “These are times that try men’s souls,” as the founding father of American independence, Thomas Paine, wrote in The American Crisis. In very recent history, people did not speak out in time until the Hutu/Tutsi mayhem overwhelmed Rwanda. It is incumbent on me to now call out Bayo Onanuga, the ...

Uzor Maxim Uzoatu Sad news hit me hard on Tuesday, June 25, in this year of Our Lord – my inimitable guru Tam Fiofori passed away. Tam was in his lifetime celebrated as a filmmaker, photographer, journalist, publisher and documentarian. Not many people knew that the icon popularly hailed as “Uncle Tam” was once a poet. It was a pleasant ...