Red Notice: Putin is Nearby, By CHIDI AMUTA
Putin is nearby. Precisely, Russia’s ambitious global influencer of illiberal order has docked next door. In Niger Republic to be exact. At the end […]
CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday
To Nigerian Universities, A Message from America’s Campuses By CHIDI AMUTA
On many fronts, America is showcasing the many burdens and benefits of democracy. Most Washington politicians are united in their support for Israel. But […]
Dangote, Air Peace and the Patriotism of Capital By CHIDI AMUTA
Money is perhaps a homeless vagrant. It has no nationality or permanent homestead in real terms. It goes and stays only where […]
A Tax on Darkness By CHIDI AMUTA
On the technical matters of electricity supply and consumption rates, I am just a layman. I fare even worse when it comes […]
Museveni then and Now By CHIDI AMUTA
Within the diverse pantheon of African rulership, something curious is emerging. In many ways, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda is fast emerging as […]
Beyond the Delta Bloodbath, By CHIDI AMUTA
Nigeria’s endemic insecurity took a different turn last week. Sixteen active duty soldiers were ambushed and killed by presumed youth militants in the […]
Forget State Police; Perhaps a National Guard Instead, By CHIDI AMUTA
Nigeria’s now perennial insecurity has been damaged by political laziness. Every two- penny politician has developed a habit of weaponizing insecurity as political language. […]
Land of Unfinished Business By CHIDI AMUTA
Among the pantheon of today’s political godlings, perhaps Senate President Mr. Godswill Akpabio is the epitome of the spirit of the times. An […]
Tinubu and the Scarcity of Optimism, By CHIDI AMUTA
In more sensible places, President Tinubu’s job approval rating is so woeful that he should have been job hunting by now. In the […]
Power, Vision and a New Aba By CHIDI AMUTA
It is time to pay homage to the place of my beginnings. I was born and grew up mostly in Aba. Something in […]
Rehearsing the Anarchy By CHIDI AMUTA
Nigeria’s litany of troubles has finally anchored on two basic existential matters. Insecurity and hunger. We are all very unsafe and now the vast […]
Vladimir Trump Resurgent, By CHIDI AMUTA
The United States presidential election in November is looking more like a referendum. Though intended as a democratic ritual, it could […]
Where is the President? By CHIDI AMUTA
President Bola Tinubu has just jetted out to France on a ‘private visit’. He is not back in the country till sometime in […]
The Kidnapped Nation, By CHIDI AMUTA
Two weeks ago, this column in a piece entitled “Neither at War Nor in Peace” lamented that Nigeria has entered a new normal. We are […]
The Age of Appearance By CHIDI AMUTA
In the new world, we differ decisively from our children. We read and reflect; they see instant images and decide or judge based on […]
Neither at War Nor in Peace, By CHIDI AMUTA
Nigeria has hit another milestone. It has graduated into a hybrid state, a distinction it shares with very few other nations. Simultaneously, Nigeria […]
Silence in Bethlehem, Wailing in Gaza By CHIDI AMUTA
The raging war between Israel and Hamas will not end before tomorrow’s Christmas is over. The unfortunate war has instead yielded two principal […]
Beyond the Rivers of Trouble, By CHIDI AMUTA
In my adopted home state of Rivers, they do not “play” politics. They wage bitter “fights” over politics. Political outcomes are more of spoils of […]
The President as African King, By CHIDI AMUTA
The size of President Tinubu’s delegation to the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai has raised a bit of dust. On closer examination, I think it […]
TRIBUTE: Henry Kissinger, The Centurion’s Last Salute, By CHIDI AMUTA
When Henry Alfred Kissinger turned 100 on 27th May this year, I wrote this tribute in salute to a man who is undisputedly the greatest statesman […]