Courting Global Anti-Americanism, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Courting Global Anti-Americanism, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor February 9, 2025 An unwritten paradox has defined the United States up to this moment. It is the only country...Read More
Limits of the American King, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Limits of the American King, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor January 26, 2025 Barely one week into his refurbished presidential tenure, America’s Donald Trump seems poised to set new precedents...Read More
What Will May Bring? By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION What Will May Bring? By CHIDI AMUTA Editor January 19, 2025 Our presidential political calendar indicates May 2025 as the mid-term of the current presidential tenure. Every May...Read More
West Africa’s Season of Farewells and Question Marks, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST Nigerian News West Africa’s Season of Farewells and Question Marks, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor January 5, 2025 Frances’s major military base in Cote d’Ivoire is billed to close down at the end of this...Read More
Merry WhatsApp Christmas, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Merry WhatsApp Christmas, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor December 22, 2024 The same old “Jingle bells! Jingle bells!! Jingle all the way!!!” is again uniting Christians and non-Christians...Read More
Beyond a Fake Agenda for 2027 By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Beyond a Fake Agenda for 2027 By CHIDI AMUTA Editor December 8, 2024 President Tinubu may have stumbled on a sustaining logic and viable mission for his political future. Prior...Read More
Democracy as Minority Rule, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Democracy as Minority Rule, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor November 24, 2024 There is a shrinking feeling about it all. With each off -season election that is conducted and...Read More
“Renewed Hope”, Failing Expectations, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION “Renewed Hope”, Failing Expectations, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor November 17, 2024 Politics is in many ways like religion. It thrives on a foolish expectation of paradise perennially approaching...Read More
For Mr. Trump, Maybe Good Night at Last, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION For Mr. Trump, Maybe Good Night at Last, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor November 3, 2024 In a matter of days, America’s democracy might self -correct and present a rough and bulky casualty....Read More
Tinubu: Hints of a Failing Mission, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Tinubu: Hints of a Failing Mission, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor October 20, 2024 The current mood of the nation is defined by a question mark. Most people are not quite...Read More
Rivers: An Emperor’s Road to Harakiri, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION POLITICS Rivers: An Emperor’s Road to Harakiri, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor October 13, 2024 On May 17th 2024, this column published a piece with the tittle “An Emperor and His Nemesis”. It...Read More
With Neither Fanfare Nor Flourish: For Yakubu Gowon at 90, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION With Neither Fanfare Nor Flourish: For Yakubu Gowon at 90, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor October 6, 2024 Between 1967 and 1970, Nigeria narrowly escaped the misfortune of going into oblivion. An unnecessary war was...Read More
An Epidemic of Downward Mobility, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION An Epidemic of Downward Mobility, By CHIDI AMUTA Editor September 29, 2024 It is a sort of sinking feeling. Something like an uncontrolled slide into a dungeon down a...Read More
Good Morning, Mr. Gates, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Good Morning, Mr. Gates, By CHIDI AMUTA Bode September 8, 2024 Perhaps unknown to most Nigerians, the Nigerian government hosted its political opposition in the hallowed chambers...Read More
The Brewing Distraction, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION The Brewing Distraction, By CHIDI AMUTA Bode September 1, 2024 The Nigerian politician is a most futuristic animal. He is above all else a most distractive creature,...Read More
Protests: Sleepless in Abuja By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Protests: Sleepless in Abuja By CHIDI AMUTA Bode August 4, 2024 The anxiety preceding the hunger protests was palpable. The dress rehearsals on the part of officialdom were...Read More
The Sporadic Presidency, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION The Sporadic Presidency, By CHIDI AMUTA Bode July 21, 2024 No one can fairly accuse President Bola Tinubu of inaction or inactivity. On the job that he...Read More
Give Us Biden, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Give Us Biden, By CHIDI AMUTA Bode July 7, 2024 All it has taken to expose the porous underbelly of American democracy is one bad...Read More
My jet is bigger than yours, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION My jet is bigger than yours, By CHIDI AMUTA Bode June 23, 2024 In 1989, the call of duty and pull of family necessitated that I travel...Read More
Beyond Festival Democracy, By CHIDI AMUTA CHIDI AMUTA On Sunday COLUMNIST OPINION Beyond Festival Democracy, By CHIDI AMUTA Bode June 16, 2024 Nigerian politicians have perfected the art of reducing almost everything to situational comedy. They...Read More