As I See It with Jude Atupulazi

By Jude Atupulazi Days ago the Anambra State Government announced its resolve to enforce the ban on the open grazing of cattle across the state which was earlier emplaced by the previous regime of Chief Willie Obiano. The recent announcement by the Government of Soludo came because of the failure of the past government to carry it out. This latest ...

By Fr George Adimike On Saturday, August 27, all roads and air routes led to Rome where an illustrious son of Igbo Land, then Most Rev Peter Ebere Okpaleke, Arch Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Ekwulobia, was created a Cardinal by Pope Francis. Ordinarily, that event could have passed for yet another epochal one in the life of the ...

By Jude Atupulazi Nigeria is in ruins. Everything is crumbling. The Naira has taken an all-time nose dive. The security architecture has exploded. Lives are being snuffed out on a daily basis without the leadership batting an eye. People have lost hope. The things that once held us together have been stretched so thin that they will cut at any ...

By Jude Atupulazi Many of the young people rooting today for the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, may not have actually known when the Peter Obi phenomenon came about. Right from the time he burst onto the scene in late 2002, he had come across as a different breed of politician, preaching what appeared a strange ...

By Jude Atupulazi I have heard and read many things in this country that outrightly seemed untrue and which later turned out to be such. Yet there are some that have or are taking time to be proved false. One of such was the tale by the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) Nnamdi Kanu, that Nigeria’s president, ...

By Jude Atupulazi You will not understand the excitement of football buffs about the start of the new football season in Europe, if football means nothing to you. It is even possible that you will look upon those of us cheering the beginning of the European football season as those whose brains may need resetting. But then, if you ever ...

By Jude Atupulazi Nigeria is a country of strange happenings. Just when you think you have seen it all, some other fresh thing confronts you and you shudder. The country was recently dragged into a new low by the party ruling in the centre, the All Progressives Congress, APC, when they paid money to all manner of people and gave ...

By Jude Atupulazi Having been around in this part of the universal space for a fairly long while, I must say that I’ve had cause to experience many things first hand concerning life and living. I’ve met so many people and seen so many things and have also been through so many experiences; all of which have put me in ...

By Jude Atupulazi I still remember this day vividly. We had been invited to accompany Peter Obi, then into his first few months as the governor of Anambra State, to an erosion site near the Omagba area in the commercial hub of Onitsha. Just beyond one lane of the road, we could see a house hanging precariously on the edge ...

By Jude Atupulazi The greatest phenomenon in Nigeria today is Peter Obi. His name is in the mouths of his friends and foes alike. Yet, he is neither the president nor a governor. He is not even holding any other political office in a country where holding such makes one relevant. But still, Obi is very much in the national ...

By Jude Atupulazi Last Tuesday morning, I was driven by the spirit to put up a hurried write up about the place, fate and future of Ndigbo in Nigeria. It was intended as a brief reaction to a social media post in which the president general of Ohaneze Ndigbo World Wide, Ambassador George Obiazor was seen addressing Igbo marginalization in ...

By Jude Atupulazi In the evening of Friday, June 17, the social media became awash with news of the barring of Catholic faithful and clergy from attending the Adoration Ministry’ Emene Enugu, known as AMEN, by the Catholic Bishop of Enugu Diocese, Most Rev Calistus Onaga. The directive came on the heels of massive public outrage against Fr Ejike Mbaka’s ...

By Jude Atupulazi Within the week the governor of Ebonyi State, Dave Umahi, was quoted to have asked the people of the state not to vote for Peter Obi who is contesting for the presidency of the country in Labour Party. Obi had left the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, recently after he could not stomach the brazen display of corrupt ...

By Jude Atupulazi Those who still view the presidential aspiration of Peter Obi from the prism of Peter as an individual are missing the biggest point of the moment. What Obi is aspiring for has since surpassed him. It is no longer about him but about all of us; all those at the receiving end of things in Nigeria. To ...

Amid the raging storm of insecurity sweeping across Anambra State, the State Police Command has introduced a facility that can not only aid in combating it, but also allow the public to report erring police officers. I spoke with Charles Enekwe, a Superintendent of Police in charge of the ICT Department, Anambra State Police Command. Excerpts What’s this Rescue Me ...

By Jude Atupulazi When a people; even animals, are pushed to the extent that they have their backs against the wall, they have no option than to stand and fight back. It was what happened when the Nigeria/Biafra War broke out fifty-five years ago. The Igbos were targeted across the north and hounded and killed in their dozens. The survivors ...

By Jude Atupulazi Last week in Lagos the governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, was in Lagos to talk security with ndi banyi living there. It was in furtherance to his efforts to find a solution to the lingering security crisis in the state that shows little signs of abating. It is indeed getting to a situation where no ...

By Jude Atupulazi The killing of one Miss Deborah Yakubu, Christian female student of Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, has once again brought to the fore, the fate of Christians in Nigeria, a country where everyone was supposed to freely practice their religion, but where only a particular religion holds sway. Deborah was beaten to death and burned by ...

By Jude Atupulazi If ever there was going to be anyone fittest enough to be Nigeria’s president now, you don’t have to look far. That person is none other than Peter Obi, former Anambra State governor. He is one of the foremost personalities in the Southeast contesting to be president as the 2023 general elections in Nigeria draw near. Obi ...

By Jude Atupulazi In Nigeria, most times when you see crowds of people either protesting or urging a politician to come out and contest, that exercise is nothing but what is called ”arrangee” in local parlance which means something that has been set up, usually by unseen hands manipulating those people from their hide out. Such exercises are usually to ...