Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar III: A Sultan for All Seasons, by Azu Ishiekwene

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Enjoying kingdom prosperity! (2)
Last week, I brought you the introductory segment of this teaching…GOD’S supernatural provisions are for you. So, why die in poverty when you can live in prosperity and abundance? Hear this: God’s Word is loaded with treasures for your comfort and pleasure.
Tick…tock
Some people are like they’re going to live forever; they are just —for lack of better words to describe it— larger than life…. So it doesn’t matter where you are or what you’re doing, when you hear Ojukwu is dead; you pause and taken a moment.
A merry or marred Xmas
It read and it continued “Are you ready to pay between N35k-N70k to re-register your already registered car? Are you ready to be ripped off by an executive cartel who seeks only to line their pockets with proceeds of the new license plate scam? Remember the Red Reflector sticker scam that the FRSC illegally enforced till it was scrapped?
Before another appointment, Mr. President
May God never give us an Obasanjo again,” I once prayed on this column. President Obasanjo was then on his last days in office and the review of sports under his tenure was a sad commentary.
This backwards quick march
SOME few weeks ago, we watched on television when the Governor of Edo State, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, was on site to see the progress of work on a contract, which he apparently wanted expeditiously executed. Here was the contractor telling the Governor: “We intend to…”.
Now that we know the fuel subsidy beneficiaries
LAST week, the wind of nation-wide opposition to an unpopular agenda finally exposed the ugly hind place of Nigeria’s political (economic) fowl, when Nigeria’s Senate named beneficiaries of the much-vaunted fuel subsidies.
Ojukwu was sent to expose Nigeria (3)
NIGERIA is a country ruled by mindless, myopic and opportunistic selfish pursuits by individuals and groups. Few are willing to stand up for the truth and justice irrespective of the cost. One of such few was His Excellency, Lt Col Francis Adekunle Fajuyi, the late first Military Governor of Western Region, who opted to pay the supreme price rather than betray his visiting boss, General Aguiyi-Ironsi, who was in Ibadan as part of his nationwide “pacification” tour.
Last of the titans?
THE last couple of weeks have been period of obituaries in Nigeria. Two prominent Nigerians who had in their different ways transformed the political and professional landscape of the country passed on.
Review of the 1999 Constitution, Nigerian democracy (1)
AS steps are taken for the review of the 1999 Constitution, it is appropriate for a perspective on this initiative to be provided. The review of the Constitution should have one overriding aim, namely: to sustain the Democracy Project in Nigeria. The citizenry must be engaged and this as critical participants.
Ojukwu: He electrified the stage
A GREATER part of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu’s life was full of drama and the man himself filled and electrified his stage in a way only he could. Born into one of the wealthiest families at that time, with onomatopoeic names that evoked awe, he brought panache to whatever he did.

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