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Dec 2, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Azubuike Ishiekwene
Donald Trump’s election overshadowed Kemi Badenoch’s emergence as the leader of the Conservative Party of Britain. Yet, no one gets the worst political job in one of the world’s oldest political parties and walks away quietly. This is especially the case when the candidate is a straight-talking, ideological woman and a child of an immigrant in a largely conservative society. Don't want to see this?
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Azubuike Ishiekwene
I can understand wealthy US citizens and conservatives of the evangelical hue rooting for Donald Trump. The rich believe he would loosen regulations and protect them and their businesses from excessive taxation. Conservative evangelicals believe he is the bulwark against wokeism, especially the ultra-liberal variety. And white folks want their country back.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Azubuike Ishiekwene
Dear former first lady Michelle Obama,You asked the question that millions outside the US have been asking for weeks, if not months: Why can’t America see former president Donald Trump for who he is – a congenital liar, a narcissist, a fascist, and a demagogue? Don't want to see this?
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Azubuike 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 the deaths of around 1,139 Israelis and about 200 taken hostage by Hamas on 7 October 2023 at a music concert left little doubt it was going to be a bloody phase. Just how long, ugly or bloody it would take for Netanyahu to kill the “last Hamas” – which was his minimum condition for peace – was hard to tell. Don't want to see this?
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
metrostarng.com | Azubuike Ishiekwene
By his admission, Senator Adams Oshiomhole is a lousy product vendor. In the real commercial world, his premises would have been closed and his products banned. But in politics, crime multiples grace. Oshiomhole dragged Godwin Obaseki into the governorship race in 2016 when the odds were against him. Obaseki’s daytime job was minding his business at Afrinvest, a financial services company he founded.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
metrostarng.com | Azubuike 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 nearby Rivers and Delta States several times, Bayelsa didn’t cross my mind. To make matters worse, the state was often in the news for the wrong reasons.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Azubuike Ishiekwene
I last met Senator Ifeanyi Ubah on a flight to Asaba on 21 April this year. I was on my way to Asaba’s Delta State University from Lagos to promote my new book, Writing for Media and Monetising It. I didn’t see him until we entered the arrival hall. He seemed to have added some weight for a man his height. I teased him about his robustly prosperous looks. He replied that journalists like me tend not to add weight because we’re too busy causing trouble, to which I replied that he should not go there.
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Jul 21, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Azubuike Ishiekwene
The assassination attempt on former president Donald Trump on 13 July at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania has sucked the oxygen from the debate on President Joe Biden’s fitness for a second term. The discussion will resurface, but Democrats should forget it. The party is stuck with Biden. The odds are daunting. It must feel like a difficult marriage heading for a shipwreck. However, with only four months to the election, facing the odds is the only way to overcome them.
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Jul 7, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Azubuike Ishiekwene
Outgoing British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came to the job as an afterthought, yet his days in 10 Downing Street were numbered before he received the ceremonial blessings of King Charles III. For a long time after Brexit, the Tories and sections of the British public, still in post-Brexit ecstasy, were madly in love with Boris Johnson. He was incompetent and a congenital liar, but a good poster boy of that era.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
dailymaverick.co.za | Azubuike Ishiekwene
I’m opposed to a minimum wage. And I know I’m saying this at the risk of losing readers. The minimum wage hurts the poor and vulnerable in whose name and interest labour claims to strike. Sounds foolish, right? How can more naira in the pocket of the Nigerian worker currently on a minimum wage of N30,000 ($24) be bad?
