The story of Busola Dakolo’s unknown ‘Cousin’, by Azu Ishiekwene
NAPTIP weighed in and invited Mr. Guardian to a meeting over the matter. He turned up kicking and generally behaving in a manner that suggested he would stop at nothing ...
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Tag: Azu Ishiekwene
In search of the real Oshiomhole, by Azu Ishiekwene
As I watched the video again on Sunday, it felt like a recording from another age, yet it was taped only five years ago. Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was wearing a ...
Amaechi’s train ride for $2b silence, by Azu Ishiekwene
If it had been news about the former sports minister who had defiantly sat on $150,000 mistakenly paid into the ministry’s account by the IAAF, I might have found it ...
One life, many lessons, by Azu Ishiekwene
Even though the attention of the world was focused on the role of the media in elections and democracy on the World Press Freedom Day, the shadow of last year’s ...
Crocodile tears for Zamfara and a culture of interference, by Azu Ishiekwene
The immediate reason why the Supreme Court ruling on Zamfara State has sparked a civil war in the All Progressives Congress is that the decision could further complicate the outcome ...
Wike, the GOC and oil bunkering, by Azu Ishiekwene
Comparison between public conduct elsewhere and what obtains in Nigeria can sometimes be awkward, especially because it can be mistaken to suggest that we can’t be up to any good.
Ganduje: Understanding the pathology of revenge, by Azu Ishiekwene
Jafaar claimed that about six weeks after the Sarkin Kano was enthroned, the emirate’s safe was raided and, within two years, stripped of over N4 billion, apart from nearly N500 ...
Missing secret in Yari’s masterclass, by Azu Ishiekwene
Zamfara State Governor and Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, Abdulaziz Yari, gave a masterclass to incoming governors last week. The governor, who has obviously become wiser on his way ...
Why Dr. Ngige can’t treat that headache, by Azu Ishiekwene
If he was talking about politics, I might agree; because that is one area where there’s a surplus, and also a place where Ngige has established a reputation as a ...
Laughter as political medicine, by Azu Ishiekwene
Nigerians love travel and adventure. But Ukraine and its forbiddingly cold capital, Kiev, wasn’t a favourite destination for many years. That is until Pastor Sunday Adelaja of the Embassy of ...
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 was elected president, he would sell off the Nigerian National ...
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 had a problem which, like a stubborn fly, has refused ...
Nanny Vice Chancellor confronts helicopter parenting, by Azu Ishiekwene
At first, I thought it was fake news. But I read it to the end and later noticed that it had also been shared on a number of other serious ...
They have killed him. But why?, by Azu Ishiekwene
When six-year-old Emmanuel Jumbo-Ochigbo got into the blue-coloured Golf hatchback to school in the morning of Wednesday, March 20, it was like any other day – bright and sunny.
Inconclusive 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 agbada to save them from the misery of inconclusive election ...
Ajimobi, 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 be mostly remembered for – the epigram from his encounter ...
Voting: 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 family friend who suspected we would be voting at the ...
Atiku: An omen worse than defeat, by Azu Ishiekwene
As the final results of last week’s presidential poll were released, three broad groups emerged: Those genuinely surprised that the Peoples Democratic Party candidate, Atiku Abubakar, lost; those in pretentious ...
Mahmood 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 frequently executed men on social media, I had no idea ...
Buhari 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 two major parties, Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress ...
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