Azu Ishiekwene
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Why Minimum Wage Is a Bad Idea, By Azu Ishiekwene
I’m opposed to minimum wage. And I know I’m saying this at the risk of losing readers. The minimum wage…
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The Pathologies of a Throne, By Azu Ishiekwene
For the deposed Kano Emir, Aminu Bayero, it was not a matter of if but when. The moment the Supreme…
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Who Does America Listen To? By Azu Ishiekwene
I was chatting with a friend last week, who, mid-speech, redirected our conversation to the situation in the Middle East.…
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One Year of Tinubu, By Azu Ishiekwene
It wasn’t five months after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu took office when folks started asking, how far? In middle class…
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Arts
Thrills, Joys and Surprises of Selling, By Azu Ishiekwene
There are probably more books on how to sell everything than there is sand by the seashore. I have read…
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Monetising Trouble with Azu, By Lasisi Olagunju
YOU remember how Portable, the Wahala musician, described government a few days ago? He said, “after God, na government.” Great…
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What’s in a Book? You’ll Never Know, Until…, By Azu Ishiekwene
Earlier this week, I teased on my social handle about my encounter with a deity. Of course, not in the…
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Is a Third World War Coming? By Azu Ishiekwene
This was the question a friend of mine in his late 20s asked me when we woke up on April…
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Faye and France: The Tyre Meets the Road, By Azu Ishiekwene
The words of President Bassirou Diomaye Faye were honey to taste. Following the bitter ending of the 12-year rule of…
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The Okuama Dead: Story Behind the Grief, By Azu Ishiekwene
When Lt. Colonel Abdullahi Hassan Ali, 49, assumed duties as Commanding Officer of the 181 Amphibious Battalion of the Nigerian…
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