Chido Onumah

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Chido Onumah

Chido Onumah trained as a journalist at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. He was Director of Africa Program, Panos Institute, Washington, DC, and Assistant Editor of Third World Network’s African Agenda magazine.

He is currently the Director of the African Centre for Media & Information Literacy.

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Was There A Country? Part 2 By Chido Onumah
It is evident that Nigeria has been so abused to a breaking point, that the only thing that seems plausible now is a national dialogue in form of a Sovereign National Conference (SNC). The...
Was There A Country? By Chido Onumah
Two compatriots have commented publicly on the title of my book, “Time to Reclaim Nigeria”. At the public presentation of the book in Abuja on December 15, 2011, the special guest, Osun...
Before Nigeria Implodes! By Chido Onumah
On Sunday, February 19, 2012, The Guardian carried a frightening story with the headline “S’East, S’South, Middle Belt form Alliance”. It was a report of a meeting attended by...
Charter Of Demands For A New Nigeria By Chido Onumah
“The administration would do well to ponder the principle that a government which refuses to submit to the will of the people, its sovereign, is a rebel government and, by its own rebellion,...
Time To End Subsidy On Inefficiency By Chido Onumah
President Jonathan’s decision to increase the price of petrol on January 1, 2012, will go down in history as one of the most cynical decisions by a Nigerian president. Even though there is...
Who Is Afraid Of Homosexuals? By Chido Onumah
This article first appeared on March 13, 2006. It is excerpted from the book Time to Reclaim Nigeria. First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a...
In Praise of Dictatorship: President Jonathan And The Rehabilitation Of Justice Belgore
This article first appeared on July 10, 2006, under the title In Praise of Dictatorship. It is excerpted from an upcoming book, Time to Reclaim Nigeria. It has been reproduced in light of President...
Time to Reclaim Nigeria 3: What Is To Be Done? By Chido Onumah
Justice is the first condition of humanity – Wole Soyinka, The Man Died Fifty years gone in a twinkle: how time has flown Fifty years gone in a bubble: how a nation’s grown Time to...
As Jonathan Plays The Oil Subsidy Game And Imperils The Nation
We have watched with incredulity the brazen attempt by President Goodluck Jonathan to take the pauperisation of the Nigerian people to even more unprecedented heights by way of a purported fuel...
Time To Reclaim Nigeria 2 By Chido Onumah
Perhaps the most interesting – some would say most bizarre – story out of Nigeria this past week was that involving some of the country’s journalists in the capital city, Abuja. We...
Time To Reclaim Nigeria By Chido Onumah
I have been following the “Occupy Movement” across the world and I must say I am impressed. What started as a small band of protesters on Wall Street in New York a few weeks ago, has...
In Praise of Strong Leaders By Chido Onumah
The preceding week was one of long speeches. From the pre-independence lectures, to the goodwill messages, and down to president’s Independence Day speech, our rulers had reason to comment on...