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Azu Ishiekwene

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
April 27, 2023

What Nigeria’s election cannot teach does not exist

Polls are like mini-skirts. They are short enough to attract attention but long enough to hide the subject matter.

Peter Obi, Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu and Muhammadu Buhari
April 20, 2023

Hadiza and the Toes of the Nigerian Big Man

Hadiza’s trial was an idiot’s tale, the government replaced her on the advice of the minister, whose main contribution was being Buhari’s ATM eight years ago.

Director General of the NPA, Hadiza Bala-Usman.
April 13, 2023

Why Trump’s trial doesn’t make America special

We have seen, especially in the last 10 years, that the U.S. is not the undimming beacon that it often pretends to be.

Trump in court