Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene is Editor-In-Chief of LEADERSHIP, one of Nigeria's leading newspapers based in Abuja, the country's capital.
Why Ghana’s Election Matters
The news from Ghana was not how John Dramani Mahama’s opposition party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC), defeated Nana Akufo-Addo’s ruling New Patriotic Party...
The Price We Pay When Legislators Die
We met last on April 21. I went to Asaba from Lagos to promote my new book, Writing for Media and Monetising It, at...
Thrills, Joys and Surprises of Selling
There are probably more books on how to sell everything than there is sand by the seashore. I have read a few myself and...
Rolling Blackouts, Heatwave and Tales from Dead Bulbs
I don’t know how it is in your part of town. But it’s been a nightmare in mine, a supposedly middle-class residential area in...
APC Digging Its Own Grave in Edo
Nigeria’s politicians have perfected the art of burying themselves with one foot sticking out. And it appears that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will,...
Nuts for the living: A personal story
I was going through some old files in my closet the other day when I saw some documents and receipts that absolutely cracked me...
ECOWAS: Is This the Beginning of The End?
Mali and Burkina Faso obviously have a lot more in common than squaring off in a game of football like they just did in...
Reflections on Adesina’s Work with Buhari
I knew Femi Adesina when he was “Daddy Tobi.” He still is, of course. But back in the day when we were neighbours in...
In pursuit of the last Hamas
After futile attempts by others to get the prosecutor at the International Criminal Court (ICC) to investigate allegations of genocide against the parties in...
Kwankwaso After the Supreme Court
In the last one and a half decades, Rabiu Kwankwaso has been the most charismatic politician out of Kano after the passing of Abubakar...
Small Chance for INEC to Save Itself in A Big Way
Elections in Nigeria this year might be nearly over but the war by other means could well receive fresh fire from three state elections...
Atiku, Obi and the Road to Kilimanjaro
Former vice president and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, said on Monday that Nigeria was the bigger loser in last week’s...
Gumi’s Extremism Shames Decency
Sheikh Ahmad Gumi, 60, is a medical doctor and retired army captain. But he has not had a job after retirement 37 years ago....
