By Azu Ishiekwene I first met him after the 2003 election, which his candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, lost. I was then Editor of The Punch and Sam Nda-Isaiah was founding …
Azu Ishiekwene When the news of the death of Diego Maradona broke, I was in a friend’s office. Our initial spontaneous reaction was sorrow and regret. And then we drifted, …
Azu Ishiekwene That the slain Borno farmers did not get military clearance is an inconvenient truth, but the real error of judgement was taking the government at its word. In …
By Azu Ishiekwene I HAVE known the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, for a long time, I think. Before I got close, I was first drawn to him …
By Azu Ishiekwene The saying that a prophet is not appreciated at home may well be referring to former Ghanaian president, Jerry Rawlings, who died last Thursday from COVID-19 related …
By Azu Ishiekwene I suspected the pregnancy will not be carried to full term and now, it’s playing out. Even before the US electoral monster conceived by President Donald J. …
By Azu Ishiekwene At the beginning, I was tempted to think of the author as a reluctant memoirist. Hon. Justice Sunday Akinola Akintan says his two greatest motivations for writing …
By Azu Ishiekwene If Donald J. Trump were president of Wakanda on the eve of an election, that country would have received several warnings from the US State Department on …
By Azu Ishiekwene It was hard to keep up with the torrent of posts as the power of social media was deployed in all its ferocity for good and evil. …
By Azu Ishiekwene You’ll have to go back nearly a decade to find anything resembling what has been happening across the country in the last one week. Back then, civil …