THE press has been unkind to Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales. I find it hard to understand why, of…
Browsing: Azu’s Column
THE journey to Kuriga in southern Kaduna, North-west Nigeria, did not start with the kidnap of 287 students last week.…
I DON’T know how it is in your part of town. But it’s been a nightmare in mine, a supposedly…
THE resolutions following the Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),…
NIGERIA’s politicians have perfected the art of burying themselves with one foot sticking out. And it appears that the All…
I WAS going through some old files in my closet the other day when I saw some documents and receipts…
AS THE troubled Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convenes its Ministerial Council meeting in Abuja on February 8…
MALI and Burkina Faso obviously have a lot more in common than squaring off in a game of football like…
THE report was treated like a footnote in the main press, but social media and online news platforms gave it…
I HOPE Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, can finally get some sleep. He deserves it. After the ruling of the…
I KNEW Femi Adesina when he was “Daddy Tobi.” He still is, of course. But back in the day when…
AFTER futile attempts by others to get the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate allegations of genocide…
“Subsidy on petrol will go, sparking initial higher prices and demand for higher public sector wages by union leaders who…
IN the last one and a half decades, Rabiu Kwankwaso has been the most charismatic politician out of Kano after…
THE only thing that trumps the mocking viral videos of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, are…
ONDO is one of Nigeria’s most enlightened states. It is, perhaps, side-by-side with Oyo, one of the most significant political…
LIBERIA and Sierra Leone have a common historical legacy and often tend to imitate each other in war and peace.…
IT’S not only the poor that are mad, if you get my drift. Even folks who once thought of themselves…
“Every morning a lion wakes up, it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve…
ELECTIONS in Nigeria this year might be nearly over but the war by other means could well receive fresh fire…