Nigerian News Leader
First with details then facts 
By Azu Ishiekwene
There is fire in Ouagadougou. And who’s to say where it’s catching next? For the second time in eight months, the military in Burkina Faso struck in a palace coup that removed military leader Paul-Henri Sandaogo Damiba.
By Nduka Ugwueje
At the return to democracy in 1999, every state in Nigeria mapped out peculiar strategies for even distribution of executive powers across its senatorial zones. Enugu state was not left out. Its political gladiators swiftly conjectured a power rotation formular that brought in Dr. Chimaroke Nnamani of Nkanu West as governor to go on behalf of Enugu East Senatorial zone. After eight years of concentrating all social amenities and development infrastructures in the zone, his tenure came to an end in 2007.
By Kingsley Okoye
Nigeria attained political Independence in 1960. This came in the gale of independence agitation that hit colonised countries in Africa and Asia. Its quest for complete sovereignty materialised in 1963 when it was granted a Republican status.
By Azu Ishiekwene
When the row between Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and his party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), spilled onto the streets after the party’s presidential primaries in May, I argued that to solve Wike, one had to first fix the candidate, Atiku Abubakar.
By Jude Ogechi Eze
The Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Most Reverend Godfrey Igwebuike Onah, on Sunday, said he is sorry for anybody trying to obstruct Nigeria youths in their new resolve to right the wrong in our polity.
By Bolanle Bolawole
Decades ago, I remember reading a piece by a writer lamenting the sudden but astronomical shooting up in the price of “garri”, which used to be the staple food of poor and down-trodden Nigerians. For reasons which need not detain us here, “garri” shrugged off its beggarly position in the hierarchy of staple foods and began to rub shoulders with the likes of rice, beans and yam flour. So, the writer, alarmed at what he described as the effrontery of garri and its audacity to join the league of the elites, screamed: “See me, see garri!” Unruffled, “garri” has not looked back ever since! On the contrary, it has been helped by the lacklustre and wanton-destroyer Muhammadu Buhari administration to firmly book its place amongst the elite club of foodstuffs in Nigeria.
