The discussion will resurface, but Democrats should forget it. The party is stuck with President Biden.
Author: Azu Ishiekwene
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
For some, selling feels natural. I cannot remember how many times I have bought stuff that I really didn’t need because the seller made me feel like they were offering the moon on a stick. Good for those who have such skills but when it comes to selling, I’m far from a natural. I overthink, over-analyse and take failure to deliver rather personal – all perfect signs of a poor salesman.
Yet, those who have met this man – who know him – might agree that Sam Amuka, fondly called Uncle Sam, is a deity of sorts.
Apart from video war games, the young man has not seen any wars. Nigeria’s civil war ended nearly two and a half decades before he was born. Of course, you don’t have to experience war to feel it. There’s a sense, for example, in which the more recent wars in the West African subregion or the more distant ones in Northeastern Africa or Europe tend to reach us, wherever we are.
Sall started well. He came to office in 2012 with solid credentials, looking every inch like what Senegal needed to break away from the incompetence and cronyism of Abdoulaye Wade under whom the country had lost its way.
Three years ago, Ali’s younger brother, Jamilu, a captain, had been killed in action by bandits in Katsina State. As an officer in the North-east, Ali himself had escaped death a number of times in battles against Boko Haram insurgents.
About a decade later, the beast of sectarian violence, which had reared its head in Kaduna, surfaced several hundreds of miles away in two major places
It’s been a dreadful time of rolling and erratic blackouts. Like surfing an angry wave, if you understand what I mean.
If the Afrobeat icon, Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, had rendered a welcome tune for the embattled regional leaders as they met in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, it would have been his famous “Confusion Break Bone.”
If Governor Godwin Obaseki’s ruling Peoples Democratic Party had paid to put a spell on APC, the outcome would not have been more potentially devastating.
After a wave of protests, he instigated the Senegalese Parliament to announce December 15 as a possible new date.
They announced to the continent’s shock and surprise last week that they were pulling out of the 15-member regional trading block, the Economic Community of West African States.