Tag: Chidi Amuta
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For whom will Buhari vote? – By Chidi Amuta
The race for Nigeria’s next president is progressing down to the wire. The two major political parties have held their conventions and chosen their end term executives. Most of the minor parties are yet to make their presence known let alone felt. Talks and speculations about mergers, fusions and electoral alliances remain just that: speculations.
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Campus Babalawos and Cyber Ritualists – By Chidi Amuta
The current news from Ife is disheartening. A viral video doing the rounds of the social media has shown a parade of devotees of sundry traditional worship clad in all white and a motley other costumes invade the campus of the University in a protest mode. I understand the macabre parade is in aid of…
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Oligarch Governors and Politics in Troubled Times – By Chidi Amuta
We are witnessing the coming of a new type of politics. Between the ruling All Progressive Congress(APC) and its rival, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), some strange political bad manners is taking root. In this political tradition, the actions and conducts of politicians have no bearing to the prevailing mood of the nation. Politics is…
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Mr. Putin is Nearby – By Chidi Amuta
The Group is reportedly also in cahoots with cells of the Russian Mafia. In the raging Ukraine invasion, for instance, a contingent of 400 mercenaries from the Wagner Group were dispatched to infiltrate into Kyiv for the sole aim of assassinating President Zelensky. Ukrainian intelligence uncovered the plot and it has been frustrated so far.
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Dr Amuta, Profs Okigbo, Musa, Ladi Adamu; Alim Abubakre, others join TheNewsGuru Board
Renonwed scholar and media guru, Dr Chidi Amuta, along with Professors Charles Okigbo, Muhammed Musa, Ladi Sandra Adamu, are among 10 eminent Nigerians who have joined the Board of TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG).
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What if Putin Flips? – By Chidi Amuta
Before our very eyes and at an unexpected moment, a horror movie may be unfolding. Last Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, warned that a Third World War between Russia and NATO is possible and that it would be a nuclear war.
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The PDP at Crossroads – By Chidi Amuta
Nigeria’s main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP), is currently hanging on an existential cross of its own. After nearly eight years in the power wilderness, the party faces the 2023 election season with an uncertain fate and a quirky future. Will it resurrect from its present state of deprived animation or descend into permanent…
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The APC After Buhari – By Chidi Amuta
Seven years afterwards, Buhari’s appetite for apex power has been fulfilled and arguably squandered. His pet nativist hegemonic project has come full cycle and overreached itself. And as he begins to gather his belongings to return to the pastoral anonymity of Daura, his APC vehicle now has an existential challenge: how does it survive in…
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Politicians, ASUU and Dangerous Universities – By Chidi Amuta
Between the Federal Government and the organized trade union of Nigerian university teachers, ASUU, a familiar dance is about to resume. Few adult Nigerians can remember any length of time in the recent past when ASUU was not on strike.
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