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By Azu Ishiekwene It was hard to keep up with the torrent of posts as the power of social media was deployed in all its ferocity for good and evil. Through it all though, one thing was constant on my mind on Tuesday night: the images of vulnerable, distressed youths fighting for their lives. You
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By Azu Ishiekwene A major headliner last week was the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Pastor Enoch Adeboye, calling for restructuring. He didn’t just call for it: he also sprang a surprise. According to news reports, he warned that if nothing was done to restructure, the country might break up, even though
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By Azu Ishiekwene THE ruling of a Lagos High Court last week that residents in estates cannot be forced to pay levies and dues set off a frenzy of conversation, especially among middle class residents who for years think they have been unfairly exploited by association managers. Interestingly, it was a private company, Megawatts Nigeria
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By Azu Ishiekwene It was not supposed to end this way. Like the promo of a mismatch between David and Goliath, many believed, with reasons, that Governor Godwin Obaseki would be beaten to a pulp. To make matters worse, Obaseki was not just up against one Goliath. He was taking on Goliath Plus, an array
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By Azu Ishiekwene IT couldn’t get worse. Like many family feuds, offence festered as quickly as affection grew. In this case, though, there was some hope that the feuding parties had too much going for them to risk losing all. And for what? Comrade Adams Oshiomhole was the common glue. A decorated unionist and two-term
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By Azu Ishiekwene I’M not sure what his daytime job is, but if there was ever a politician permanently parked on social media that politician is Dino Daniel Melaye. He was in the Senate and tried to contest as governor of Kogi State. Before that, he was a member of the House of Representatives; before
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By Azu Ishiekwene THREE years ago, it was a war spiced with condiments and paste over a dish of grain. Nigeria’s Information Minister Lai Mohammed, was answering a question by CNN’s Richard Quest about who makes the tastiest jollof rice in West Africa. But Mohammed heard the question wrong. He thought Quest’s question was about
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By Azu Ishiekwene THE headlines, especially in the Western press, suggest that Africa is back again in the news for the wrong reasons. Misery has really never been too far away, but in the last few years foreign journalists looking for stories of deaths, diseases and destruction on the continent have had to find another
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Lawyers have become the new voters and courts the new electoral umpires; yet neither the lawyers nor the courts can say exactly where all this would lead or swear that they are in control of the outcome.
Read More Kashamu’s death is a lesson which doesn’t need Obasanjo’s hypocrisy to be learned
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