I knew my candidates would lose at the unit where I voted, but that didn’t matter. Voting mattered more.
Author: Azu Ishiekwene
My path with Dr. Yemi Osinbajo, as he then was, first crossed at the University of Lagos when he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Law and I was a student at the Department of Mass Communication at the same university. Just a busybody trying to indulge my fantasy of becoming a pocket lawyer, I met him out of curiosity.
He has mastered make-belief uber-patriotism over the years, cultivating this ruse into an art form that disguises his large ego. Yet, it won’t be a bad thing if he had the modesty to admit, even remotely, that Obasanjo, being Obasanjo, his monumental ego often gets the better of him.
Nigeria’s history of electoral violence in the sixties and even in the mid-nineties might justify these concerns.
Boko Haram’s violent extremism was at its worst. Life on the streets, schools, and home was insecure.
She was 37-years-old and also the youngest head of government at the time. What’s there not to love?
As of the time of writing, the matter had faded from the headlines and a new date was yet to be announced for the burial.
In the last three years, I have formed the dangerous habit of forecasting what the new year might bring, roughly speaking
If he could, he might have built a highway to Sharm el-Sheikh where the world’s great and mighty gathered between November 6 and 18 at COP27 to discuss climate change. But who knows, he might yet do so. Thirteen-year-old Musa Sani, who has already taken infant steps in civil engineering, might live a bigger dream someday. At an age when his mates are dodging bullets and running scared with nothing on their backs in the midst of the chaos that Borno, a Boko Haram hotbed in Nigeria’s North East has been for nearly two decades, Musa is building things, literally,…
It does appear, however, that if all we’re interested in is to tick the box, it won’t be long before we’re back to square one.
The weather forecast segment, which used to come at the end of the news bulletin on Nigeria’s national broadcaster, NTA, was the butt of cruel jokes amongst folks.
For the second time in eight months, the military in Burkina Faso struck in a palace coup that removed military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
If large sections of the British press needed any proof that Meghan killed the Queen her Saturday visit to Windsor confirmed it.
In a few, like South Africa where the ruling African National Congress has been in power for 28 years, new heads of government have been produced more by incest than by the ballot.
Not the run-of-the-mill kind that forces a courteous half-smile. It’s the kind that extracts the prey while putting the cat completely at ease; it just cracks your rib.
This legend won him a razor-thin victory over Raila Odinga in the August 9, 2022 presidential election.
I defied him. Regrettably, though I also recruited help nearby to press home my point, my unsolicited advice fell on deaf ears.
She had just set a new World Record at 12.12s breaking Keni Kendra Harrison’s 27-year record and leaving legend Michael Johnson wondering how she did it.
On the eve of Atiku’s announcement of his running mate when the media was awash with news that it might go Wike’s way, a party insider described the Rivers State governor as a “caretaker”.
Those who are mad at him are not only upset by his decision on Tuesday, they are doubly upset that it took him five weeks to decide what they always suspected he would do: pick a Muslim running mate to complete what is now Nigeria’s first Muslim-Muslim ticket in nearly 30 years.