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Photoshopping Princess and The Perils of Manipulation

Nigeria, March 21 -- The press has been unkind to Kate Middleton, the Princess of Wales. I find it hard to understand why, of all the problems at this time, from the cost-of-living crisis to the war i... Read More


The famished road to Kuriga, By Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria, March 15 -- The journey to Kuriga in southern Kaduna, North-west Nigeria, did not start with the kidnap of 287 students last week. In the early 1990s a neighbouring town, Zango Kataf, was the... Read More


The Famished Road to Kuriga

Nigeria, March 14 -- The journey to Kuriga in southern Kaduna, North-west Nigeria, did not start with the kidnap of 287 students last week. In the early 1990s a neighbouring town, ZangoKataf, was the ... Read More


Rolling blackouts, heatwave and tales of dead bulbs, By Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria, March 7 -- I don't know how it is in your part of town. But it's been a nightmare in mine, a supposedly middle-class residential area in Abuja, Nigeria's federal capital. Rolling blackouts do... Read More


Will the humble pie heal ECOWAS?, By Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria, Feb. 29 -- The resolutions following the Extraordinary Summit of the Heads of Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), at the recently concluded summit of Heads o... Read More


APC digging its own grave in Edo, By Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria, Feb. 22 -- Nigeria's politicians have perfected the art of burying themselves with one foot sticking out. And it appears that the All Progressives Congress (APC) will, once again, stage this ... Read More


Cost of living crisis: A personal story, By Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria, Feb. 15 -- I was going through some old files in my closet the other day when I saw some documents and receipts that absolutely cracked me up. Among the browning, time-worn papers was the rec... Read More


Sall taking ECOWAS from frying pan to fire, By Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria, Feb. 8 -- As the troubled Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) convenes its Ministerial Council meeting in Abuja on 8 February to discuss the quit notice served by three of its ... Read More


ECOWAS: Is this the beginning of the end?, By Azu Ishiekwene

Nigeria, Feb. 1 -- Mali and Burkina Faso obviously have a lot more in common than squaring off in a game of football like they just did in the Round of 16 knockout stage of the African Nations Cup (AF... Read More