As I See It with Jude Atupulazi

By Jude Atupulazi Has anyone ever wondered why, despite all the harsh measures taken against thieves in some cities in Nigeria, like lynching and burning them alive, they have continued to steal? Indeed, often times, even where suspected thieves are being killed and burnt you realize that others are still stealing there. Why do they do that? Why the wanton ...

By Jude Atupulazi The above title could have been any other one. For instance, it could easily have been ”Man of the year”, ”Nigerian of the Year”, among others. But I decided after much thought to use the above title, ”My Igbo Man of the Year”. It may seem as though I have succeeded in narrowing it down to an ...

By Jude Atupulazi The Christmas festivities have come and gone and the New Year has even come but perhaps it’s time to appraise the major things that happened over the yuletide; from what I’ll describe as the ridiculous to the good. The ridiculous: Government’s directives/bans that mean nothing Every year just before Christmas, the Anambra State Government usually gives some ...

By Jude Atupulazi The many faces of Christmas celebration in Igbo Land. We should use this period to fix some of our pressing problems. It is Christmas once again. It is the period that means a lot to the people of Eastern Nigeria. They do not joke with it. From far and near, they converge on the home front; sometimes ...

By Jude Atupulazi It is a fact of life that every human being has eyes. What is however different is how each individual uses his or her eyes. Some see far ahead of others while others see just a little beyond their noses. And so there was a time when a new kind of anarchy was let loose upon our ...

By Jude Atupulazi Simon Kolawole was my boss when I worked with The Week Magazine as their correspondent in Anambra. He has always come across as a brilliant writer and has been acknowledged nationally as such. While I mulled over what to write about the situation of things in Nigeria, I found this piece below written by the effervescent Kolawole ...

By Jude Atupulazi A colleague of mine, name withheld, boarded a shuttle bus somewhere in Onitsha one late evening after attending a function. The last thing he remembered was boarding the shuttle. By the time he returned to his senses the next morning, he found himself lying by the roadside and realized that his money, phone and other possessions had ...

By Jude Atupulazi In trying tom restore sanity on the roads, one of the punitive measures introduced by the Anambra State Government under Prof Chukwuma Soludo, against traffic defaulters is, apart from paying a prescribed fine, to have their heads examined at a psychiatrist hospital to ascertain their mental health. This is because the Anambra State Government believes only mad ...

By Jude Atupulazi In 2003, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, held sway in Anambra State, with a certain political godfather pulling the strings and determining who got what position or did not. The party was so strong and so deeply entrenched in the state that it was inconceivable that any other party, not to talk of any single man, could ...

This week I’m going to largely devote my page to those of you out there who find pleasure with what I churn out every week. Indeed, in a society where many a journalist has been disappointed by what they encounter from people in the course of their job, I’ll beat my chest and say I’ve had more praises than knocks. ...

By Jude Atupulazi She was my teacher at the Institute of Management and Technology, IMT, Enugu, before I crossed over to the University of Port Harcourt. That was many years ago but even then I have always marveled at how very much the same she looks and that is why I always call her the Ageless Prof. Okunna is a ...

By Jude Atupulazi In Peter Obi, God has given Nigerians a viable option in next year’s presidential election; but that is for Nigerians who are genuinely desirous of a positive change at this very critical moment of our national life. Indeed, Nigeria has never been so low and Nigerians have never been so disillusioned. Many are finely poised on the ...

By Jude Atupulazi What gives the most pain to any individual is when they are not given their deserved respect, when they are treated as though they do not matter, even when they do. In Nigeria, the Igbo Nation has ever since the unfortunate civil war been treated as if it is not part of Nigeria and this is despite ...

By Uche Amunike I watched a video clip shared by one of my colleagues a WhatsApp group I belong to, the other day, where an old woman pleaded with her son to drop her off at the hospital with his car because she was sick and needed to get medical treatment. The man immediately accepted and told her to enter ...

By Jude Atupulazi Often people have encountered some touts masquerading as enforcers of union levies for such unions as motor parks, Okada, keke and shuttle buses. These touts have made life difficult for both commercial vehicle operators and their passengers. In Onitsha, for instance, many passengers have had occasion to experience frustration in the hands of such touts who will ...

By Jude Atupulazi Shortly after the immediate past Anambra State Governor, Chief Willie Obiano, assumed office way back in 2014, I had written a kind of open letter in which I advised him to beware of praise singers. I noted that my advice stemmed from what I had already started seeing about his persona which showed him as one who ...

By Jude Atupulazi Some time ago, in the heat of a burning controversy between fiery Catholic priest, Rev Fr Ejike Mbaka of Enugu Catholic Diocese, and his Bishop, I had warned against the deification of priests by adherents. By that, I was warning against a situation where the faithful would begin to see certain priests/pastors as God himself, rather than ...

By Jude Atupulazi If there is one major commendable thing about the Holy Catholic Church, it is the freedom of its faithful to ventilate their feelings, albeit constructively, on issues that concern their faith. It is in this light that I have decided to once more revisit a sore issue in not only the Catholic Church but in every church ...

By Jude Atupulazi For long, there has been this argument on whether pilgrimages to holy lands should be sponsored by the government or not. Those against it argue that it amounts to a gross waste of resources by government since going on pilgrimages is an individual thing. Those who want government to continue to sponsor such argue that such sponsorship ...

By Jude Atupulazi Life has one inevitability and that is the fact that anything with a beginning will have an end. Initially while the fun goes on, it seems as though an end will never come. But as sure as night will succeed day, the end finally creeps up on you and that is that. Sometimes such an end leads ...