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Azu Ishiekwene

July 6, 2023

Mmesoma: What really happened?

How did we get here? As in many things dumb and useless, politicians have managed to lead the way to the collapse of values.

JAMB REGISTRAR PROF ISHAQ OLOYEDE and MMESOMA EJIKEME
June 29, 2023

Titan and migrants; two tragedies, different stories

The wall-to-wall coverage of the implosion of The Titan and the short shrift that the deaths of over 500 migrants received…reecho the Shakespearean line about beggars.

Titan submersible and Migrant boat
June 23, 2023

Buhari’s legacy puts Tinubu in tight spot

Those familiar with road travel before fancy luxury buses and jeeps displaced wooden-back Bedford light trucks, famously called mammy wagons.

Former president Muhammadu Buhari handing over to President Bola Tinubu
June 19, 2023

Plugging gaps in the students’ loan scheme

The law is a good start, but it needs to be saved from the surrounding ruins to be useful to students and serviceable to the schools.

University students in Nigeria used to illustrate the story
June 8, 2023

What does it mean to be a father today?

On this Father’s Day, for example, if you’re nice, your son might even offer you a bottle of beer! The mere thought of it would make my father turn in his grave.

Silhouette of father with daughter and son
June 1, 2023

Tinubu biting the bullet from day one

Petrol subsidy is gone, means petrol subsidy is gone. Anything short of saying so on day one would have amounted to kicking the can down the road again.

Tinubu, fuel queue
May 25, 2023

On eve of transition, Nigerian chef cooks up a storm

The culinary queen is obviously offering her cheerleaders what is absent in the menu of politicians. And they’re not in a hurry to leave her table.

Hilda Baci,President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu,Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi
May 18, 2023

What should Tinubu do about National Assembly?

Whether it was the Senate or the House of Representatives, Obasanjo kept real or potential adversaries on a leash by lining their path with banana peels.

Bola Tinubu , Muhammadu Buhari and Olusegun Obasanjo
May 11, 2023

Dangote refinery challenges global narrative

But how does Africa’s richest man propose to deal with the growing resonance of the global green army?

Dangote refinery
May 4, 2023

The fowl of Mecca and Nigeria’s census palaver

Buhari knows that Tinubu’s government will not accept any census result under the current circumstances. That is why the census was postponed.

Muhammadu Buhari and President Bola Tinubu