IF the name of the chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), its secretary, or convention date were the subject…
Browsing: Azu Ishiekwene’s Column
IT feels somewhat like nostalgia, but it’s not. Life, they say, happens. There was something else I used to hear…
APART from tariffs, another word that the Trump presidency is fond of is genocide. First, it was South Africa. During…
PUTTING it nicely, Aparutu is the Yoruba word for a joker, a clown. In August 1986, when I first arrived…
US President Donald Trump may be getting ahead of himself with the encouraging signs that, following the ceasefire in Gaza,…
THE grave is never satisfied, but other things compete with it for insatiability. I can’t help feeling that some members…
ON the eve of Nigeria’s 65th independence anniversary, I reflected on Harold Smith. He’s not widely known in Nigeria. And…
THE Dangote Petroleum Refinery, Nigeria’s lifeline from decades of rot in the petroleum downstream, has to fight every inch for…
IN the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two…
ZAMFARA State Governor, Dauda Lawal, is hardly in the news. Lawal has enough on his plate in a region struggling…
AFTER the main opposition People’s Democratic Party (PDP) announced last week that it would zone the presidency to the South…
WHEN I wrote that the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) is an animal that eats its curator for lunch,…
EUROPEAN leaders often portray Russian President Vladimir Putin as a tyrant, a land grabber, and a Russian bear. And following…
PETER Obi has the best chance against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in 2027 of all opposition candidates. Former Vice President…
I MET him several times after he became Nigeria’s president in 2015, but the meetings did not change my impression…
IT’s hard not to love US President Donald Trump. He is the world’s most powerful president and wears his preeminence…
THERE’s a part of my job that can swallow you whole. Journalists are brought up on a diet whose main…
THE proper thing to do when readers respond to a newspaper article is to respect their right of reply. There…
ON paper, it looked like a mismatch. Iran is not only one of the oldest and most established places in…
I ENCOUNTERED the relic of his presence long before I met Sam Amuka, known as Uncle Sam. Inside a room…