From the mouth of His Lordship
From the mouth of His Lordship
Retired Justice Sunday Akinola Akintan
A letter to Sam
Ishiekwene, Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspapers, writes a posthumous letter to Sam Nda-Isaiah, founder and chairman of the group, who died on December...
Tinubu, Shettima and the Christian vote
Apart from religious disrespect, there is also the argument that the assumption by the Tinubu camp that Northern Muslims won’t vote a...
Ruto: Have the hustlers finally ousted Kenya’s dynasties?
Even Ruto knows that in Kenya’s 59-year history no single election has been won or lost without knife-edge drama.
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...
On the Podium with Tobi Amusan
That Tobi Amusan and some of her colleagues haven’t abandoned Nigeria isn’t because of Nigeria and we must never become so deluded...
Again, a bizarre joke in Niger speaks French
Again, a bizarre joke in Niger speaks French
By Azu Ishiekwene
Not only are military coups...
Naked Supreme Court dance not a bad thing after all
As it is with the Supreme Court, all five of the heads of the other judicial branches - Courts of Appeal, Industrial...
Nigeria’s election and the pollster’s albatross
APC’s decision to field Bola Ahmed Tinubu and Kashim Shettima, both Muslims, in Nigeria's election, a country with roughly equal Muslim-Christian population...
What you might expect in 2023
Let me start with one of the most frequently asked questions: who will likely win the presidential election of February 25, 2023?...
