This day, in 1967, Biafra became an independent nation. The Biafran enclave, which became defined by the independence, was an attempt to provide a place of refuge for easterners who had fled their homes from all parts of Nigeria. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/081921.html
Welcome address by AlfredObioraUzokwe at the book signing ceremony on April 12, 2003. ...Ladies and gentlemen, the Nigerian civil war ended more than thirty years ago, and I wish I could say to you tonight, that all of the problems that led to that... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/042103.html
From that day on, I no longer believed all the war propaganda I heard. We returned home to Nnewi in the wee hours of the night and instead of the feeling of elation I usually had after our performances, I was down. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/021703.html
Some of the judges, these days, seem to make rulings based on what they feel that the executive arm would want. ...They [Obasanjo's govt] have tacitly prescribed two standards of behavior for the citizens: one for those in power or in the corridors of... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/020204.html
The alarming rate of corruption in Nigeria, coupled with its attendant effects, warrants that Nigeria should be toughening the punishment for corruption. Every body else understands this except members of Nigeria's Senate. URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/030603.html
The book ''Surviving in Biafra'' has been published and this writer owes a debt of gratitude to Nigeriaworld.com readers who continued to send encouraging words while the manuscript was in the making. Those words of encouragement helped motivate this... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/020903.html
Someone should please tell ambassador Abdulwahab that reporting these crimes promptly and in an unadulterated way helps would-be victims.... A lot of Nigerians live in the Diaspora and travel home to Nigeria every Christmas; most read what happens in... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/060602.html
Every time I ask Obasanjo's apologists why they feel he deserves a second term, they tell me that he has given Nigeria a good image abroad. As I have said many times on this column, this is a non-starter because, at the time he was elected, any Nigerian... URL:https://nigeriaworld.com/columnist/uzokwe/050602.html