PERHAPS three will be the lucky number. After at least two previous failed attempts, a peace deal between Israel and…
Browsing: Azu Ishiekwene’s Column
THE news from Ghana was not how John Dramani Mahama’s opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), defeated Nana Akufo-Addo’s…
DONALD Trump’s election overshadowed Kemi Badenoch’s emergence as the leader of the Tory Party of Britain. Yet, no one gets…
IT’S a famous story in Christendom. Palestine, a vassal territory under the Roman Emperor Caesar, was obliged to pay tributes…
I UNDERSTAND wealthy US citizens and conservatives of the evangelical hue rooting for Donald Trump. The rich believe he would…
Dear former First Lady, YOU asked the question that millions outside the US have been asking for weeks if not…
THREE – maybe three and a half – stories go to the heart of why Nigeria appears stuck in a…
THIS was tough to write. My heart resisted it, but I yielded to my head. The petrol in my car,…
WHEN the Israeli-Hamas war started one year ago, it didn’t look like it would last long. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin…
SEVERAL good things happen in the bedroom, often the place of rest and renewal. Sometime in 2004, Sam Nda-Isaiah and…
THE Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had barely finished announcing the result of last Saturday’s Edo governorship poll when I…
BY his admission, Senator Adams Oshiomhole is a lousy product vendor. In the real commercial world, his premises would have…
I DON’T get involved with what the security services do or how. Their ways are so complex and their motives…
WHEN I was invited to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in June, I didn’t know what to expect. I had not visited…
ALMOST everyone thinks they know what is wrong with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his government, except Tinubu himself. And…
WE met last on April 21. I went to Asaba from Lagos to promote my new book, Writing for Media…
AFRICA’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is not a stranger to adversity or its more sinister cousin, sabotage. One of the…
THE assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on July 13 at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania has sucked the…