As I See It with Jude Atupulazi

By Jude Atupulazi First it was Bowen College and now it is Chrisland College, Lagos, which is now in the eye of the storm over the misdemeanor of some of its students. In the first school, a student was given mortal injuries by his fellow students, a development that called to question, the kind of checks carried out in private ...

By Jude Atupulazi In life, it is often those who don’t know what something is all about that propagate it. The gallant warriors who fought in the Nigeria/Biafra War are our fathers and grandfathers. They saw war for what it was and understood that it wasn’t something anyone would just wake up and demand for. Thus when you come across ...

By Jude Atupulazi On Saturday, April 2, the governor of Anambra State, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, held a security summit with stakeholders in the state to find ways of ending the spate of killings in the state. The summit resolved among other things that all churches in the state should hold prayers the next Monday to beseech God to intervene and ...

By Jude Atupulazi The All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, has been in power in Anambra State for 16 years but it is yet to taste victory in the senate for Anambra North Senatorial Zone. Is it that their candidates have not been the best or that the people of the zone have been rejecting APGA? Perhaps, this is a poser ...

By Jude Atupulazi The winner of Aguata Federal Constituency primary election of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Engr Dom Okafor, has declared that his victory is for everybody and not his alone. Speaking to Fides after the results of the primary election was announced, Okafor described his victory as a case of no victor, no vanquished, while stating his ...

By Jude Atupulazi Third World leaders have a peculiar problem which determines their success or failure. That problem is managing fortune seekers cum praise singers. Once a leader in these parts falls for this, such a leader is a goner. That was what the immediate past governor of Anambra State, Chief Willie Obiano, fell for; and, boy oh boy, what ...

By Jude Atupulazi In the brief history of democratic governance in Anambra State, two former governors have stood out for their kindheartedness. They are Chinwoke Mbadinuju and Willie Obiano. But interestingly, the two happen to be the only ones to be messed up after leaving office. While Mbadinuju was jailed for his part in the killing of the Igwe couple ...

By Jude Atupulazi When one thinks he has seen it all, something happens that shocks the senses. That was exactly the case last Thursday at the swearing in of Prof Chukwuma Soludo as governor of Anambra State. The event was at Government House, Awka before some important dignitaries that included priests and the political class. After everyone had been seated, ...

By Jude Atupulazi Not too long ago, the Anambra State Government signed a Bill on low expense burials into law. It was known as the Anambra State Burial Law. At the time, I had doubted the workability of that law and feared that it would be abused and flouted by the people, largely due to the ridiculously low fees to ...

By Jude Atupulazi Igboland has become a beleaguered territory, with illusionists killing and destroying the land in search of a Biafra that will never come; ritualists killing young girls so that they can afford 2003 Lexus and Mercedes Benz; politicians stealing and looting everything they can lay hands on in order to escape a family history of poverty, the future ...

By Jude Atupulazi DANGER! KEEP OFF! Ukpor- Lilu- Orsumoghu- Azia- Mbosi Road, in Anambra State…. DEATH TRAP. Please brethren, do not ply the above route for any reason whatsoever. It has been proven to be a major security FLASH POINT. These hoodlums known as UNKNOWN GUNMEN have taken over the place. Randomly wreaking havoc to lives and property. Just yesterday ...

By Jude Atupulazi Years ago, precisely on December 26, 2008, one of my kinsmen who was a Biafra activist under the aegis of Movement for the Actualization of a Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB), visited me. His mission? He came to tell me to join the Biafra struggle so that I could be given a big rank in the soon-to-be-formed ...

By Jude Atupulazi If there is one institution that should offer sanctuary to those vilified and rejected by their society, that institution is the Church. But when that same institution joins others to spew hate and divisiveness, then we may not doubt that the end time is nigh. That was the case last Sunday at Holy Trinity Catholic Church, Ewu-Owa, ...

By Jude Atupulazi I was reading one piece the other day in the social media which got me thinking. It was a story of how a young boy saw a fifty Naira note in his parents’ house one day years ago. He pondered what to do with the money. Should he pick it and return it to his mother or ...

By Jude Atupulazi Although we are yet to get much official confirmation, already many Ndigbo believe that the likes of Senator Orji Uzor Kalu; Gov Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State; former Senate President, Ayim Pius Anyim; former Imo State Governor, Rochas Okorocha; and recently, former Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, are the early runners in the race to become the ...

By Jude Atupulazi Years ago I would have not been able to eat or sleep following the kind of loss the Super Eagles of Nigeria suffered last Sunday at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations tournament in Cameroon. Indeed, way back in 1994, after the Eagles had lost to Italy at the World Cup in a very narrow defeat, I ...

By Jude Atupulazi I have always striven to ensure that I don’t get swayed by the crowd, no matter how loudly they shout or how popular their cause is perceived to be as long as I don’t see any good in it. That is exactly why I have refused to be part of the brand of agitation by some of ...

By Jude Atupulazi The festive period is over and the stark reality many will face is the emptiness of their pockets. Indeed, January has never been the friendliest of months, given its penchant to brutally remind one of the true state of things. Really, all the booze and merriments of the festive period soon give way in January to despondency ...

By Jude Atupulazi On March 17 this year, just about under two months away, former Central Bank Governor, Prof Charles Chukwuma Soludo, will be sworn- in as the next governor of Anambra State; some twelve years after he first sought to occupy the seat. It will no doubt be one occasion that will be etched in his mind as the ...

(Republished on popular demand) By Jude Atupulazi It’s December once again. The month that ends the year. It is a month that means many things to different people. While there are some who see it as the month in which the birth of our lord and saviour is commemorated (and those people are few), there are others who see it ...