Frank Talk with Uche Amunike

By Uche Amunike I want to start this piece by thanking the Almighty for his Grace which I have received in abundance in all the years I worked in this great establishment called FIDES. It has been nine long years of beautiful moments which I will forever treasure. My heart is bursting with so much gratitude as I cast my ...

By Uche Amunike It’s Sunday evening and I am really very upset. I am so upset that I decided to put down my thoughts on these pages. Did you just ask why I am upset? I’ll tell you. I am a Nigerian mother. Being a Nigerian mother is being stressed. By virtue of my nationality, I am naturally stressed on ...

By Uche Amunike I was born a Catholic, raised a Catholic and still proudly practice my Catholic faith, for almost five decades now. One of the things I love about the Catholic Church is its universality. If it’s Palm Sunday in Nigeria, it will definitely be Palm Sunday in Canada, Holland, Luxembourg, India and South Africa. If it’s the feast ...

By Uche Amunike Let me start by expressing my heartfelt apologies to you all for my absence for a while now. As you know, I was incapacitated by my injury and it hasn’t really been easy using my right hand since then. Most times, I have all the millions of things in my head to write, but because of the ...

By Uche Amunike Here’s the second part of the brilliant interview granted by the controversial Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, Principal Partner, Malcolm  Omirhobo & Co. I culled it from the Guardian Newspaper and he bared his mind on trending national issues that will surely interest you, as he fielded questions from Chijioke Iremeka of the Guardian Newspaper. Recall that he was ...

By Uche Amunike Today, I bring you the brilliant and fiery Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, who is the Principal Partner, Malcolm Omirhobo & Co. He is also a human rights activist, who stirred controversy at the Supreme Court, Abuja, and Lagos High Court, after he appeared in court in lawyer’s gown dotted with ‘native doctor’ attire, some months ago, during one ...

By Uche Amunike The month of August is very important in the lives of the Igbo people generally. Traditionally, New Yam festivals are usually fixed at this period in so many villages. For women, it is the time for the married ones to assemble in their matrimonial villages in order to be a part of what is now generally known ...

By Uche Amunike The man I write about is a perfect example of one who has lived his life full cycle. Born, the only child of his parents, he was raised in a Catholic home and grew up being an exceptionally bright kid. He passed through the educational terrain, marital terrain, fatherhood terrain, journalism terrain and indeed, the political terrain ...

By Uche Amunike It was a Monday and I was online, trying to read the news from different tabloids when I saw a post about popular Nollywood actress, Ada Ameh being dead after slumping, somewhere in Warri, Delta state. I immediately ignored it and seriously believed it was just one of those fake news items on social media that some ...

By Uche Amunike A few days ago, I got a call from a very young lady. It was an unknown number and at the same time, a voice I could not place. So she asked if I was Uche Amunike of Frank Talk in Fides. I replied that it was me, alright. She was very inaudible and I strained my ...