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A Troubling Message from Guinea-Bissau

Daily Dispatch December 4, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene None of the three Guineas is thriving, but in Guinea-Bissau, the country that sits on Africa’s map like a tongue of fire, recent events are twisting that nation’s fate into profound misery. Guinea Conakry is in the grip of a military dictatorship with a messianic complex,

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Editors and the Missing Part of Uzodimma’s Trust Story

Daily Dispatch November 21, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene When I saw the programme for the 2025 Nigerian Guild of Editors annual conference listing Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, as the keynote speaker, I wasn’t sure it was a good idea. Uzodimma has been in the press mainly for the wrong reasons. As one of Nigeria’s leading journalists and public intellectuals, […]

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Why Is the Promise of 60 Years Unravelling?

Daily Dispatch November 13, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene If the name of the chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), its secretary, or convention date were the subject of a quiz, there would not be a correct answer because answers don’t exist. The best attempt would be an open-ended response: It depends. It either depends on who has the latest […]

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Thinking about midlife

Daily Dispatch November 6, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene It feels somewhat like nostalgia, but it’s not. Life, they say, happens. There was something else I used to hear while growing up: A fool at 40 is a fool forever. I suspect that the wit here, if I may call it a wit, is that whatever one cannot achieve in life […]

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What Will They Eat When They Finish the Money?

Daily Dispatch October 9, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene The grave is never satisfied, but other things compete with it for insatiability. I can’t help feeling that some members of Nigeria’s National Assembly will vie for the top place of never enough with the grave, water and fire. Enough is a stranger to them. What happens in these chambers in Abuja, […]

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Useni’s Fight for London House from the Grave Shames Us

Daily Dispatch September 18, 2025

By Azu Ishiekwene In the incredibly sad courtroom drama of Tali Shani v Chief Mike Agbedor Abu Ozekhome (2025) UKFTT 1090 (PC), two ordinary Nigerians from unlikely quarters, each doing what would appear to be their daily work, made the difference.The first was Ibrahim Sani, a superintendent of police at the Force Intelligence Department of […]