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 ...
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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 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 ...
Odinga-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 Brussels and from London to Washington, we’re getting lengthy lectures ...
Obasanjo: Wages of the Old Soldier’s rage, by Azu Ishiekwene
At this rate, President Muhammadu Buhari may beat former military President General Ibrahim Babangida to the record of collecting the most abusive letters from a former president.
Onnoghen 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 free of charge. Often, when you find that many senior ...
2019: 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 one of the tongue-in-cheek seers whose predictions you’ll be struggling ...
2019: 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 is one way. At this time in a “normal” election ...
Atiku, 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 fear that the election would be rigged.
Where’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 – believe that the world might end on ballot day, when ...
Oyedepo 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 of his stature and learning ought to know better than ...
A 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 record. It was not the feeling of speaking to the ...
Amaechi humiliated me in my wife’s presence – Sen. Abe
The APC senator representing Rivers South East Senatorial District, Magnus Abe, said the dictatorship of the Minister of Transport and Director General of the Buhari Campaign Organisation, Rotimi Amaechi, may ...
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