Author: Chigozie Uzosike

INEC Registration: Need for South East electorate

Saturday, July 3, 2021
If we really want our votes to count without being either counted for or against the political decision taken, there is need to begin to create more awareness for the citizens to ensure that they register online for the ongoing continuous voters registration that started Monday, 28 June, 2021. Wh ...

Our Ailing Democracy Will Bounce Back… If—CSOs

Monday, August 1, 2016
The ailing Nigeria democracy will bounce back if the clinical solution proffered by the Civil Society Organizations is anything to go by. Speaking during the Democracy Clinic and Accountability Assembly program held in Aba, Abia State, the Executive Director of Citizens Center for Integrat ...

US Convention: The Sides Of The Coin

Monday, August 1, 2016
Since 1776 that America had its independence, its Presidential Democracy has jolted through the thick and thin in the last 240 years. One thing interesting about America is that despite the political turn of events, it has continued to improve on its political and nation building, growing from st ...

Okigwe Senatorial Re-Run Election And The Denial Of People’s Representation

Tuesday, May 31, 2016
It is important to put certain issues in proper perspectives before speculations tear them in shreds, making it difficult to assemble the issues for comprehensive understanding. I am not from Okigwe zone, but I am an Imo indigene who is interested in one thing, development of Okigwe zone which to ...

The Gains Of Resolving High Profile Hibernating Corruption Cases

Sunday, May 15, 2016
If the policy of President Muhammadu Buhari to fight and end corruption in Nigeria will yield any meaningful result, it has to begin to address and not ignore high profile corruption court cases that his regime inherited. This was the called made at the National Stakeholders Quarterly Roun ...

The Creation Of Development Charter For Electoral Re-Engineering

Wednesday, May 11, 2016
If the electorates rsquo; political decision will determine positively their economic wellbeing in this country, the community members should begin to itemize and identify their needs before the next election year draws near for a more result-oriented election of credible leaders. History ...

Joining The Strong Voices For Completion Of Abandoned Projects In Imo

Thursday, April 21, 2016
When history is asleep, it is memory that wakes it up but when memory itself falls into stupor, we invoke remembrance to kick it into active consciousness. It is human to remember, it also falls within the province of human to forget. That is why we need to draw a distinct line between those who ...

Producing What We Eat—Roadmap To Economic Independence

Tuesday, March 22, 2016
As the economy of the country continues to dwindle each minute, not in terms of either the increase or decrease of the dollars but in terms of over dependence on the oil, it becomes pertinent that the federal government who has made itself the melting point, where all the federating states come a ...

2016 Budget In Focus: The Economic Sense Of Completing Old Projects Before Embar

Monday, March 21, 2016
I have noticed one thing that makes change agents and leaders stand out in the society. It is their desire to learn and willingness to be inspired by their learning to change what appears an impossible task. A budget is the annual statement of the expenditure and revenue of the government ...

Hon. Emmanuel Orie: Six Months In The Saddle

Thursday, December 10, 2015
Outside Ohaji/Egbema, his local constituency, Honourable Orie is anything but a household name. A graduate of University of Abuja and a new entrant in the Imo political arena, he commands no battalions and strikes few public poses. But if the obviously marginalized constituency finally breaks awa ...

Between Prohibiting Production Of Locally Brewed Dry Gin And Job Creation

Friday, June 26, 2015
With the infiltration of more deaths caused by the consumption of the locally brewed gin, also known as lsquo;Ogogoro rsquo;, lsquo;kai-kai rsquo;, lsquo;sapele water rsquo;, lsquo; akpuru-achia rsquo; and so many other names as called by different tribes across the country, there is need to ...

Need to Vote for Leaders who will make the Budget Open

Wednesday, March 11, 2015
I have taken time to watch politicians talk about what they will do when they are voted in and nobody has found it germane to mention the budget which is the document that will serve as vehicle to achieving all the electioneering promises. Some talk about accountability, rule of law, transparency ...

Child Trafficking: Babies and Their Rescue: Experts Reveal Operational Strategi

Saturday, January 31, 2015
Give me my baby Give me my baby Give me my baby this was the pathetic cry of a poor young girl who had her four months baby taken from her by allegedly child traffickers. But for the intervention of the men of the Immigration Service who caught the woman from Equitorial Guinea, the alleged ...
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