THE Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) is an animal that eats its curator for lunch. To survive it, either…
Browsing: Azu’s Column
APART from General Sani Abacha, I have met one-on-one with every Nigerian leader since 1992, from General Ibrahim Babangida. However,…
IF I’ve learned anything these past 35 years of journalism, it’s looking for a story in every situation. It wasn’t…
I WAS watching the evening news on Monday night when two presenters used a word at different times that jolted…
ONE year ago, on November 15, 2023, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE) invited me to speak on “Nigerian Media,…
TEN years ago, this article appeared under a different title, “The Debt I Owe.” Professor Olatunji Dare was 70 at…
BRITISH Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came to the job as an afterthought, yet his days in Number 10 were numbered…
IT was different 16 years ago. Very different. At that time, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was relatively…
IT’S been 31 years since a seismic event triggered by the June 12, 1993 election nearly brought Nigeria to its…
I’M opposed to minimum wage. And I know I’m saying this at the risk of losing readers. The minimum wage…
FOR the deposed Kano Emir, Aminu Bayero, it was not a matter of if, but when. The moment the Supreme…
IT wasn’t five months after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took office when folks started asking, how far? In middle class…
I WAS chatting with a friend last week, who, mid-speech, redirected our conversation to the situation in the Middle East.…
THERE are probably more books on how to sell everything than there is sand by the seashore. I have read…
EARLIER this week, I teased on my social handle about my encounter with a deity. Of course, not in the…
NIGERIA’s three main political parties – the All Progressives Congress (APC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), and the Labour Party…
THIS was the question a friend of mine in his late 20s asked me when we woke up on April…
THE words of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye were honey to taste. Following the bitter ending of the 12-year rule of…
BEFORE The Human Flow was published, Jonathan Power, one of Europe’s most accomplished foreign affairs columnists and journalists, had talked…
WHEN Lt. Colonel Abdullahi Hassan Ali, 49, assumed duties as commanding officer of the 181 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian…