Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013
With Tiko Emmanuel Okoye, ichietiko@yahoo.com 0805-410-3468 (sms only) President Goodluck Jonathan’s cliched response to each reported case of yet another murderous outing of the fundamentalist Islamist insurgent organization known as Boko Haram had become such a huge standing joke among majority of Nigerians that even a toddler...
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013
WithTiko Emmanuel Okoye, ichietiko@yahoo.com 0805-410-3468 (sms only) Only an hopeless optimist would claim that all is well with the nation right now. Even as the government mulls over a general amnesty for members of the Boko Haram insurgent group, the killing spree continues unabated. Rather than...
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013
With, Tiko Emmanuel Okoye, ichietiko@yahoo.com 0805-410-3468 (sms only) During my years of residence in the United States of America, my favourite pastime was watching TV commercials. More often than not, the ads were as equally exciting and captivating, if not even more so, as action-packed movies. In...
Wednesday, May 1st, 2013
WithTiko Emmanuel Okoye, ichietiko@yahoo.com 0805-410-3468 (sms only) The Nigerian Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) reportedly grounded the Bombardier jet owned by the Rivers State Government, last week Friday, in Akure, for about two hours, over the pilot’s alleged tardiness in providing the flight plan and manifest. Barely...
Wednesday, April 24th, 2013
It came like a thunderbolt out of the cloudless sky of a drab Sunday morning. I am speaking of the Sunday Punch headline of April 21, 2013, captioned “Obasanjo had a killer squad as president.” The waves of surprise that coursed through my body had...
Wednesday, April 17th, 2013
Tiko Emmanuel Okoye Email: ichietiko@yahoo.com SMS: 0805-410-3468 Nigeria and Ghana have always been bitter rivals in the game of football. Thinking about it again, the rivalry isn’t limited to the round leather game alone but extends to other fields. In the early 90s, I had the honor...
Wednesday, April 10th, 2013
Tiko Emmanuel Okoye, Email: ichietiko@yahoo.com One had thought that good counsel had prevailed after the kind of knee-jerk reactions Chinua Achebe’s most recently published book generated from both sides of the divide. I had even thought, given the traditional African respect for the dead, that...
Wednesday, March 27th, 2013
Tiko Emmanuel Okoye email: ichietiko@yahoo.com 0805-410-3468 (sms only) In many parts of the country they are known as “Radio without battery.” I am speaking of the neighborhood gossips who, before the advent of mobile phones, were adept at knowing the price of any given product selling...
Wednesday, March 20th, 2013
By Tiko Emmanuel Okoye Except for few banana republics, the exercise of the prerogative of mercy by political leaders has typically been controversial and contentious, especially if and when the beneficiaries were convicted for graft. That’s why the public outcry generated by President Goodluck Jonathan’s...
Wednesday, March 6th, 2013
Once upon a time, there was a one-man political riot squad who held court in Ibadan, capital of Oyo State. His name was Alhaji Lamidi Adedibu and the fear of him was the beginning of political wisdom for both seekers and holders of elective offices...
Wednesday, February 20th, 2013
With Tiko Emmanuel Okoye, ichietiko@yahoo.com 0805-410-3468 (sms only) The presidential poll is over 50 months away but the political calculus for 2015 is already assuming a labyrinthine dimension. Only very recently, chieftains of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Congress for Progressive...
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
With Tiko Emmanuel Okoye, ichietiko@yahoo.com 0805-410-3468 (sms only) Exactly 19 years ago this nation called Nigeria was incredibly adjudged by FIFA as the fifth best football playing country in the entire world! The only nations that were ranked higher were Brazil, Argentina, Germany and Holland. It was...
Wednesday, February 6th, 2013
With Tiko Emmanuel Okoye, ichietiko@yahoo.com 0805-410-3468 (sms only) On the surface, it would seem that Arsenal Football Club of England and the Super Eagles of Nigeria have very little in common. Arsenal FC is known as the Gunners, and any wise eagle – whether super or timid – would...
Wednesday, January 30th, 2013
Tiko Emmanuel Okoye, ichietiko@yahoo.com 0805-410-3468 (sms only) The Catholic Church of Nigeria (CCN) has taken a lot of flak over its decision to sever family ties with the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN). Just last week Wednesday, at a news conference held in Abeokuta, the Diocesan...
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013
Millions of connoisseurs of the round leather game in Nigeria not only missed the opening ceremony of the 2013 Orange African Cup of Nations (AFCON), but they equally could not watch the opening game in Group C between the Super Eagles
