Buhari must stop NNPC digging our grave, by Azu Ishiekwene
Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar made an unpopular statement during the campaign worth a second thought. He said if he...
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Ndume v Lawan: The danger ahead, by Azu Ishiekwene
What would it take President Muhammadu Buhari to get the politics of the National Assembly right? Four years ago, he...
Read moreInconclusive Vote: Buhari’s disclaimer, by Azu Ishiekwene
I don’t know why a few state governors are running around, dragging President Muhammadu Buhari by the hem of his...
Read moreAjimobi, Okorocha, Ganduje: An unfolding story, by Azu Ishiekwene
It’s incredible how eight years have ended as a two-word parable: constituted authority. That’s what Governor Abiola Isiaka Ajimobi would...
Read moreVoting: A very personal diary, by Azu Ishiekwene
I woke up several times peeping for the first sign of dawn before my phone finally rang at 6:10am. A...
Read moreMahmood Yakubu’s second chance, by Azu Ishiekwene
Last week, when I described the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Mahmood Yakubu, as one of the most...
Read moreBuhari v. Atiku: The inconvenient truth, by Azu Ishiekwene
If you walk by sight you cannot help approaching Saturday’s presidential election with a heavy heart. The candidates of the...
Read moreOdinga-US hypocrisy as bitter medicine, by Azu Ishiekwene
These days Nigeria is treated as either the continent’s worst joke or the world’s laggard for democracy. From Nairobi to...
Read moreOnnoghen misery and the Nigerian dilemma, by Azu Ishiekwene
The first sign of chaos is the number of senior advocates of Nigeria who offered to take up the matter...
Read more2019: Facts, fiction, myths…and what matters, by Azu Ishiekwene
Get this straight: Atiku Abubakar will lose the presidential election on February 16. I’m not Rev. Father Ejike Mbaka or...
Read more2019: A profile of the x-factors, by Azu Ishiekwene
The general election in 51 days will be different from previous ones in nearly two decades in many ways. Money...
Read moreAtiku, leave the Wolves, by Azu Ishiekwene
At the belated signing of the Peace Accord, for example, PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, was quite vocal on his...
Read moreWhere’s the Devil in the Electoral Bill?, by Azu Ishiekwene
Exaggeration is the most common strain of fever at election period. Politicians make voters – and the general public –...
Read moreOyedepo and the perils of satire, by Azu Ishiekwene
Oyedepo does not have to like Buhari – and it’s obvious that he doesn’t. Which is fine. But a man...
Read moreA letter to Ikeogu, by Azu Ishiekwene
I didn't want to write this week. It wasn't writer's block or the occasional frustration from sounding like a broken...
Read moreIs Magu still Nigeria’s most dangerous man?, by Azu Ishiekwene
His appointment had been barely announced when some folks with very long memory of their unpleasant encounter with him in...
Read moreSnapshots in a week of turmoil, Azu Ishiekwene
When he made the last Independence Day speech of his first term, President Muhammadu Buhari might have been speaking only...
Read moreThe election result they want in Osun, by Azu Ishiekwene
If the Peoples Democratic Party had its way, its candidate in Saturday’s governorship election in Osun State, Ademola Adeleke, would...
Read moreWhy MTN, again?, by Azu Ishiekwene
It seems MTN is never too far from the speed dial to trouble. Three years ago, the telco, which has...
Read moreLawyers, Buhari and the Ruins of Law, by Azu Ishiekwene
Governments, especially the executive arm, tend to forget that it is the rule of law that makes it possible, in...
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