THOSE familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons, might remember this ubiquitous message in cursive, bright colours scrawled …
Azu Ishiekwene
“Pouring resources into the system as it currently is, whether directly, or indirectly through infusion of students’ loans, is throwing good money after bad.” WITHIN minutes of the release of …
“What it meant to be a father was for the son to stay in his place. Father’s authority was final, unquestionable”. If my father, who passed on May 28, 2000, …
“Interestingly, in campaigns before the last general election, the other leading presidential candidates – Atiku Abubakar of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Peter Obi of Labour Party – said …
“After four days of dicing, marinating, boiling, frying, baking and grilling, Hilda toppled the 87 hours 45 minutes individual cooking record set by Indian chef, Lata Tandon, three years ago”. …
“A decade and a half after he left office as president, the hallways of the National Assembly still echo with the voices of Obasanjo’s fallen political adversaries. “ TWO presidents …
“Whatever the world may be saying about fossil fuels, carbon footprint and spooky markets, the hundreds of thousands of unemployed Nigerians cannot wait for the relief that the commencement of …
“Ten years ago, former managing director of Nigerian Breweries Plc and chairman of NPC, Festus Odimegwu, was forced to resign his position because he said Nigeria could not have a …
“What the 2023 elections show is that every serious and determined candidate can make their own victory.” NIGERIA’s February and March elections undid many things. One of them was the …
“Hadiza’s “offence” was…watered down from unremitted N165 billion to stepping on the minister’s big toes. She was sacrificed in the search for what was not missing. And without the courtesy …