Of school certificate, mudslinging and stonings: Pattern of Nigerian electioneering
FEMI FANI-KAYODE made the most of the hysteria. APC Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, according to him, does not possess the minimum requirement
There can be no postponing the February 2015 elections
SPEAKING last week at the Chatham House in London, Nigeria’s National Security Adviser (NSA), Colonel Sambo Dasuki, suggested the postponement of the
Hon. Justice Patricia Mahmoud: Righteousness in the Kano judiciary
EARLY this week, Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano state, swore in Honourable Justice Patricia Mahmoud as the Acting Chief Judge of
Burkina Faso’s legislative salaries: But did Aminu Tambuwal hear this?
This week, members of the Burkina Faso’s interim legislature agreed to take a 50% cut in their monthly salaries. It followed complaints
Gov. Babangida Aliyu’s doctrine of politics
It was my colleague and friend, Garbadeen Muhammed, who once described the Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu as “the most microphone-addicted
It has been a cold year in Northern Nigeria
OVER the last weekend I was back home in Kaduna and I also travelled to Daura, passing through Zaria and Kano. It
The insurgency and the 2015 elections
THIS week, President Goodluck Jonathan held a meeting with Nigerian security chiefs and governors of the North eastern states of Adamawa, Borno
Goodluck Jonathan surrender to Zionist Israeli diktat
LAST Tuesday, December 30, 2014, will go down as one of the darkest days in the practice of Nigerian foreign policy. That
Travel in Borno: In the heart of insurgency (2)
IT is amazing to always behold the resilience of the human spirit. And in my Borno sojourn, the human spirit was asserting
The teenage suicide bomber of Kano
LAST week in Kano, security forces paraded a 13-year old female suicide bomber, arrestd in the wake of a recent attack in