Author: Azu Ishiekwene

With minor edits, it’s worth repeating as Donald Trump happens again as the 47th President of the United States of America.

In that spirit, I accepted the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs invitation for a five-day official visit between December 15 and 19.

If you have met Obasanjo before – whether for an interview or anything else – you might agree that he’s a handful and more. You never know what to expect with Obasanjo, especially when he is in his lair.

I confirmed I was, but didn’t make much of his question since he could have gotten the information from Truecaller. I also found from my Truecaller that he was identified as: “Doc. Jibrin.” However, in a country where people love big titles that mean nothing, anyone can call themselves anything.

Conservative evangelicals believe he is the bulwark against wokeism, especially the ultra-liberal variety. And white folks want their country back. 

But in politics, crime multiplies grace. Oshiomhole dragged Godwin Obaseki into the governorship race in 2016 when the odds were against him. Obaseki’s daytime job was minding his business at Afrinvest, a financial services company he founded. But he soon landed a side hustle as chairman of the Edo State Economic and Strategy Team in Osadebey House, Benin.

But he soon landed a side hustle as Chairman of the Edo State Economic and Strategy Team in Osadebey House, Benin.

Then, he was deported from England as a “fugitive offender” and jailed a third time along with Awolowo for treasonable felony.

To make matters worse, the state was often in the news for the wrong reasons. Not that it was an exception

Events around the continent, especially in West Africa, where Nigeria is supposed to be a powerhouse, offer little comfort.

Senator Ifeanyi Ubah was on the flight to Asaba that morning. I didn’t see him until we entered the arrival hall. He seemed to have added some weight for a man his height. I teased him about his robustly prosperous looks. He replied that journalists like me tend not to add weight because we’re too busy causing trouble, to which I replied that he should not go there.

The discussion will resurface, but Democrats should forget it. The party is stuck with President Biden.

If the lot had fallen on Chief Ajibola Ogunshola to be the undertaker, not many would have blamed him for the fate of PUNCH. 

For a long time after Brexit, the Tories and sections of the British public, still in post-Brexit ecstasy, were madly in love with Boris Johnson

So unusual that one of Nigeria’s most courageous social crusaders, Gani Fawehinmi, a thorn in government’s side

That action sparked nationwide protests that ultimately consumed Babangida’s government and his successor, General Sani Abacha. 

How can more naira in the pocket of the Nigerian worker currently on a minimum wage of N30,000 be bad?

During the campaign, the governor promised that if he were elected, he would revoke the sharing of the Kano Municipal Emirate between two Bayeros among the four new emirs and restore the throne’s singular pre-eminence.

I often pushed back by saying that given the enormity of problems that the Tinubu government faced at inception, five months or so were inadequate to judge. And that was not just a convenient deflection. 

Her call coincided with the decision by Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to launch a ground offensive in Rafah