Gudu killings: Sorrow, tears and blood
WHEN news broke last weekend of the killing of nine individuals by the State Security Service, Marilyn Ogar, the Deputy Director, Information,
Nuhu Ribadu: Passion cannot trump intellect
NO one can take away Nuhu Ribadu’s genuine sense of outrage against corruption in Nigeria. He fought with tremendous passion, as
September 15: Of pain, hope and existence
I SPENT the last weekend in Lagos. I hadn’t been back in that eternally vibrant city in a long while and as is
Limitations of ‘new PDP’ discontent
WHEN the two sides of the raging PDP battle for supremacy addressed the press together on Sunday night, vowing to muster efforts
Obasanjo and the pdp crisis: Solution and problem return to source
ONE of the most abiding imageries out of Nigeria in the past week, is that of former president Olusegun Obasanjo, leading party
Burdens of contemporary education
LAST Sunday, I drove my children back to resume the new school term. The night before, I held a discussion with them
Governor Kashim @ 47
LAST Monday, September 2nd, 2013, Borno State governor, Kashim Shettima clocked 47 years. I read that he had vigorously declined an offer
PDP implodes like an old NEPA transformer
“Hi Di Hi nga atstohuwar transhomar Nehwa dai ta kai. In tai tirihin sai a mayassuwa, in tassake kuma a zaka mayassuwa