Tag: ishiekwene
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Laughter as political medicine – Azu Ishiekwene
Nigerians love travel and adventure. But Ukraine and its forbiddingly cold capital, Kiev, wasn’t a favourite destination for many years. That is until Pastor Sunday Adelaja of the Embassy of the Blessed Kingdom of God for All Nations, fired the public’s imagination with his evangelical-charismatic brand of the gospel. The news from Kiev last week…
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To kill 29 birds with two stones – Azu Ishiekwene
Azu Ishiekwene The All Progressives Congress (APC) has no one but itself to blame for the back-and-forth with the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) over the “lists of looters” it released last week. After the bazaar of the Jonathan era, that there’s any argument at all about who was named or omitted in the lists of…
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In God’s name – Azu Ishekwene
A book with the title of this article published 33 years ago by British investigative journalist, David Yallop, made the Catholic Church very, very uncomfortable. Yallop said in the book that Pope John Paul I, who lasted only 33 days as pope, did not die a natural death. He said the Pope, who was not…
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Judges’ Recall And Malami’s Crocodile Tears – Azu Ishiekwene
By Azu Ishiekwene, The government of President Muhammadu Buhari just boxed itself into a corner and the National Judicial Council (NJC) is very pleased to beat the government with a big stick. After last year’s dramatic arrest of nine judges on suspicion of corruption and the sense of relief that Buhari had, at last, taken…