Austin Isikhuemen Archives

Edo 2024 in the Era of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

April 26, 2024Inside NigeriaLeave a Comment

By Austin Isikhuemen Edo gubernatorial election is scheduled for September 2024. The umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), blew the whistle to mark the take-off of formal campaigning by the political parties and their candidates on 24th April 2024. Very soon we will begin to see the candidates on soapboxes throwing light on their […]

Tatata Politics Meets Impunity’s Dead End

April 20, 2024April 20, 2024Inside NigeriaLeave a Comment

Life after the expiry of gubernatorial immunity in Kogi By Austin Isikhuemen This morning, following the hide and seek game between Yahaya Bello and the EFCC that occupied all media platforms yesterday, I read this stanza of a poem titled ‘For It Is A Human Number’ by Jude Herrick. It had popped up when I […]

Killing Our Troops, Killing Our Nation

March 22, 2024March 22, 2024EditorLeave a Comment

By Austin Isikhuemen auxtynisi@yahoo.com During the Shehu Shagari Presidency some Nigerian Army soldiers were killed in cold blood in the sea by soldiers that were later identified as belonging to Equatorial Guinea. The outrage in Nigeria was palpable and the call for a revenge overrun of the tiny banana republic then led by Marcias Nguema, […]

Unveiling the 10th Senate’s Akpabiosis

August 10, 2023August 10, 2023Inside NigeriaLeave a Comment

By Austin Isikhuemen The 10th Senate was inaugurated in June 2023. Made up of a lot of first-timers and many returning ‘ranking’ distinguished senators, we also expected them to ‘hit the ground running’. That is a term that has been so bandied about of recent that young men wedding now even say they too would […]

Let Francophone West Africa Breathe

August 4, 2023August 4, 2023Inside NigeriaLeave a Comment

By Austin Isikhuemen Some folks are trying to put their knee on the neck of Niger Republic. This is in addition to the suffocating knee of imperial France that has been on the collective necks of the so-called Francophone countries of West Africa. They have been unable to breathe since their individual flag independence. A […]

Ethics, Theatrics, Aesthetics and Absurdities of these Belt Tightening Calls

July 21, 2023July 21, 2023Inside NigeriaLeave a Comment

By Austin Isikhuemen We are in that era again. Of strident calls on the citizens for belt-tightening across the land. It is only the very young that would not feel a sense of déjà vu. We have seen and heard all this before. Belt tightening is not a term with which we are unfamiliar. Did […]