Lessons about change from Ruto’s playbook
William Ruto offers an example that it is indeed possible to remove incumbents and their parties from within – strategically and peacefully, too.
INEC Server and other Election Day stories
There have been challenges in this year’s election: Underperformance by INEC; attacks by thugs and threats to life; bank note misery in...
Are you in that number saved by Uzodimma?
Uzodimma, in a campaign speech for his second term, promised what Napoleon in all his extraordinary conquests and ambition could not even...
Matawalle’s Guns
Matawalle is not the first governor or prominent citizen to make a rallying cry for ordinary Nigerians to acquire guns in self-defence
Atiku, Obi and the road to Kilimanjaro
Atiku, Obi and the road to Kilimanjaro
By Azu Ishiekwene
Former vice president and presidential candidate...
Why trial of Trump doesn’t make America special
The trial of Trump on the eve of an election in which he would potentially be running against an incumbent who himself...
Looking back, facing forward as Nigeria decides
It’s amazing how in eight years things have come full circle in Nigeria from Fe-Buhari to Le-Buhari (‘chase Buhari’ in Yoruba; and...
Will the humble pie heal ECOWAS?
Will the humble pie heal ECOWAS?
By Azu Ishiekwene
The resolutions following the Extraordinary Summit of the Heads...
In love, as in football, size does not matter. Here’s why
Football is a tribal game. Though money and politics have often competed to spoil and corrupt it, just as they have sometimes...
Does social media affect your voting?
Does social media affect your voting?
By Azu Ishiekwene
When I first voted in an election...
