It’s been a dreadful time of rolling and erratic blackouts. Like surfing an angry wave, if you understand what I mean.
Browsing: Azu Ishiekwene
It was a middle-class school that charged N5,000 per term. Attached to the fading receipt was a thank you note by the bursar.
After a wave of protests, he instigated the Senegalese Parliament to announce December 15 as a possible new date.
This year, I’m starting with sports. Arsenal fans are currently over the moon, testosterone pumping – and why not?
My job today is to review the book, and not the man. But since the man made the book, I would, to slightly paraphrase Oscar Wilde, overcome by yielding to the temptation of reviewing the man.
For a young adult with a promising future, the emerging facts only suggest one thing: it doesn’t rain, it pours.
But while ownership of his extensive and authoritative newspaper chain made him influential, he was not wealthy.
Not two unusual guests. Three, actually. The third, Ireland’s Prime Minister and son of a Hindu Indian doctor, Leo Varadkar, is openly gay; one of the only five openly gay world political leaders.
In the last three years, I have formed the dangerous habit of forecasting what the new year might bring, roughly speaking
Ishiekwene, fondly called Azu, beat Abimbola Adelakun and Tunde Odesola, both of PUNCH, to win the award.
In light of Wike’s no-holds-barred interview last Thursday, things may have fallen apart, irretrievably.
To drive home the point, the graphic was illustrated with a copy of the New York Times wrapping a tilapia.
The details of the conference, scheduled for Abuja, was disclosed by the NGE in a statement it issued on Monday.
The last batch of six states – Ebonyi, Bayelsa, Nasarawa, Zamfara, Gombe and Ekiti – was created by the military head of state, General Sani Abacha, on October 1, 1996.
Compared with a number of other hotspots around the world in December 2020, however, Nigeria was not even among the three riskiest places. According to global medical and security specialists, International SOS, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan were the deadliest places to be. The group also projected that these places would retain the record by the end of 2021.
The situation in Europe, especially in Italy and Spain, was particularly dire as the virus overwhelmed their sophisticated medical systems. While researchers and scientists struggled to crack the pathogen, dead bodies that could not be accommodated in morgues began to spill onto church pews and public places.
The former president had discarded election results and written a version that tightened his grip on power. How he thought he could reinvent the Mansa Musa legend in a country riven by violence and poverty only he can tell.
Back in the day, I would not dare have dinner without first taking my bath. My mother said it was “unclean” to eat before brushing your teeth in the morning and taking your bath; or to have dinner before taking your bath, as if you had just been rescued from the pits or planned to eat with all parts of your body.
Last week, Mohammed, furious at Twitter’s decision to start its first Africa office in Ghana, decided it was time to level the ragged edges and crush the journalistic snakes and con artists in Nigeria by heaping on them the blame for Twitter’s decision. It was hard for him to swallow.
I thought that was obvious and required no special gift to see. The tension sucks. There is tension between those in government and those who are not. Even among those in government, there is tension between the cabal and the fringe players. Tension between those who think policies ought not to be governed by fear and those who think government by fear modelling is the only way.