Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

Lagos

Journalist at Freelance

Journalist, Writer, Syndicated Columnist, Literary Critic, Anti-Tobacco Advocate: [email protected]

Articles

OJUKWU: Exile, Diplomacy And Survival (Book Review)

2 months ago | thenigerianvoice.com | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

Volumes have been said and written about the Nigeria/Biafra War: the pre-war hostilities that degenerated into the pogroms that eventually provoked the mass exodus of Eastern Nigerians from several parts of the country to the East; the secession of the people of the East to create a separate entity for themselves where they felt they could take charge of their own security and dignity as humans; the war that followed and the gallant efforts by the Easterners to pick the bits and pieces of...
OJUKWU: Exile, Diplomacy And Survival (Book Review)

2 months ago | modernghana.com | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

Volumes have been said and written about the Nigeria/Biafra War: the pre-war hostilities that degenerated into the pogroms that eventually provoked the mass exodus of Eastern Nigerians from several parts of the country to the East; the secession of the people of the East to create a separate entity for themselves where they felt they could take charge of their own security and dignity as humans; the war that followed and the gallant efforts by the Easterners to pick the bits and pieces of...
OJUKWU: Exile, Diplomacy And Survival (Book Review) -By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

2 months ago | opinionnigeria.com | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

But despite the very huge body of historical (and fictional) works that have accumulated on the war from Nigerian writers, foreign observers and journalists, a key aspect of the story continues to be conspicuously missing.
Boarding Students Turn Tiktokers (Video)

Mar 30, 2024 | nairaland.com | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

Welcome, Guest: Register On Nairaland / LOGIN! / Trending / Recent / NewStats: 3,143,710 members, 7,782,393 topics. Date: Saturday, 30 March 2024 at 02:56 PM Boarding Students Turn Tiktokers (Video) - Education - NairalandNairaland Forum / Nairaland / General / Education / Boarding Students Turn Tiktokers (Video) (913 Views) Why Parents Should Stop Enrolling Their Child To School Too Early.
Saturday’s Governorship Elections In Nigeria And The Credibility Of The Electoral Commission

Nov 9, 2023 | modernghana.com | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

As the November 11, 2023, governorship elections in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states draw close, widespread and justifiable concerns continue to mount about the capacity and willingness of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to organize free, credible and transparent polls to gratify the deep yearnings of the people to be allowed to exercise their constitutional right to choose their own governor.
Imo poll: What Yakubu should do – The Sun Nigeria

Nov 7, 2023 | sunnewsonline.com | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

By Ugochukwu EjinkeonyeAs the November 11, 2023, governorship elections in Imo, Bayelsa and Kogi states draw close, widespread and justifiable concerns continue to mount about the capacity and willingness of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to organize free, credible and transparent polls to gratify the deep yearnings of the people to be allowed to exercise their constitutional right to choose their own governor.
Dele Giwa: 37 Years After (2)

Oct 25, 2023 | independent.ng | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

“They have killed me”, Giwa moaned while writhing in indescribable pain, begging Dr. Ajayi to do all within his power to save him. For more than three decades now, Giwa’s killers have been hiding, afraid of the inevitable fall-out of their satanic deed, haunted and tormented by their dirty, murky, slimy conscience. Even if they eventually manage to escape the judgment of man, they cannot escape the judgment of the Almighty God which is much more dreadful.
Dele Giwa: 37 Years After (1)

Oct 24, 2023 | independent.ng | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

“Death is…the absence of presence…the endless time of never coming back…a gap you can’t see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound” – Tom StopardIn the morning of Monday, October 20, 1986, I was preparing to go to work when a major item on the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) 6.30 news bulletin hit me like a hard object. Mr. Dele Giwa, the founding editor-in-chief of ‘Newswatch’ magazine, had the previous day been killed and shattered by a letter bomb in his Lagos home.
Dele Giwa’s Assassination: 37 Years After

Oct 20, 2023 | thenigerianvoice.com | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye |Benin Bypass |Nigeria’s Economy |Atiku Against Tinubu

“Death is…the absence of presence…the endless time of never coming back…a gap you can’t see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound” – Tom Stopard In the morning of Monday, October 20, 1986, I was preparing to go to work when a major item on the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) 6.30 news bulletin hit me like a hard object. Mr. Dele Giwa, the founding editor-in-chief of ‘Newswatch’ magazine, had the previous day been killed and shattered by a letter bomb in his Lagos home.
Dele Giwa: 37 Years After The Gruesome Murder Of This Celebrated Journalist

Oct 19, 2023 | modernghana.com | Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

“Death is…the absence of presence…the endless time of never coming back…a gap you can’t see, and when the wind blows through it, it makes no sound” – Tom Stopard In the morning of Monday, October 20, 1986, I was preparing to go to work when a major item on the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS) 6.30 news bulletin hit me like a hard object. Mr. Dele Giwa, the founding editor-in-chief of ‘Newswatch’ magazine, had the previous day been killed and shattered by a letter bomb in his Lagos home.