Since1966, when Nigeria had the first coup d’état of 15th January, where mutinous soldiers, led by Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu Kaduna and Emmanuel Ifeajuna killed many people, including the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and […]
From all indications, the suspension of the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), Hadiza Bala Usman, is likely to open Pandora’s box, that could generate more complicated problems for the government in particular, […]
Late Chief MKO Abiola, (may his soul rest in peace) used to say, “You have to be close to someone to kiss him, but you also have to be close to him to bite him.” […]
I remember an instance, when the then governor of Lagos State, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu raised alarm about an attempt to assassinate him, after an incident in which four people with him were killed. Governor […]
To start with, former Senate President, Bukola Saraki is not in my good books, and it may take a long time before he gets imported into them. But while he is serving that sentence, he […]
Since last week, when I saw the sudden upsurge of some video clips circulating in the social media in Hausa, wherein a fluent and powerfully persuasive person, probably speaking from the podium of a mosque […]
Pursuant to my article of yesterday, Tuesday/20/04/21, captioned, Ganduje: Gradually going gaga?, which touched on the perceived excesses of the governor of Kano state, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, a rejoinder was published by one Mahmud […]
It was Edward Dalberg Acton, the historian, moralist and English nobleman that said, “Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” At no time in the history of Kano […]
Whether true or false, since yesterday, Saturday, 17/04/21, the social media has been awash with clichés in circulation, captioned, “The new Inspector General of Police has released his 12 point agenda for quick implementation.” The […]
For the police to police properly, the need for a polished policy of policing is paramount, and precisely that seems to be the plan of Alkali Usman Baba, the 21st indigenous Inspector General of Police. […]
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