Tag: 2025, Azu
What You Might Expect in 2025
Azu Ishiekwene “Arsenal fans are currently over the moon, testosterone pumping – and why not? The story will not change in 2024… the odds are not in Arsenal’s...
A Nation at War: Five Days in Israel
By Azu Ishiekwene Perhaps three will be the lucky number. After at least two previous failed attempts, a peace deal between Israel and Hamas might be reached by January...
An Accidental Christmas Story
Azu Ishiekwene If I’ve learned anything these past 35 years of journalism, it’s looking for a story in every situation. It wasn’t different when I left home for...
Why Ghana’s Election Matters
Azu Ishiekwene 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...
Word of the Year 2024
Azu Ishiekwene I was watching the evening news on Monday night when two presenters used a word at different times that jolted me. I’ve heard and seen that word used...
How Africa is Paying for Pursuit of the Last Hamas
Azu Ishiekwene When the Israeli-Hamas war started one year ago, it didn’t look like it would last long. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to avenge...
LEADERSHIP: A Story Still Telling 20 Years After
By Azu Ishiekwene Several good things happen in the bedroom, often the place of rest and renewal. Sometime in 2004, Sam Nda-Isaiah and his wife Zainab conceived the idea...
Ghost of the Witchfinder General
Azu Ishiekwene I don’t get involved with what the security services do or how. Their ways are so complex and their motives so unsearchable that sometimes you’ll be...
The Journey to Yenagoa, After 19 Years
Azu Ishiekwene When I was invited to Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, in June, I didn’t know what to expect. I had not visited the place since 2005. Even though I had been to...
The Trouble with Tinubu
Azu Ishiekwene Almost everyone thinks they know what is wrong with President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his government, except Tinubu himself. And to show that it’s not...
