Boko Haram and the ethnicity narrative
LAST week, a suspected ‘operational commander’ of Boko Haram was allegedly arrested in the Farawa Quarter of the city of Kano. If
The 1914 myth and de-legitimisation of Nigeria
I SHARE the indignation which informed VANGUARD’s editorial of Monday, May 7th, 2012, titled “NIGERIA-MISTAKE SINCE WHEN?” The editorial noted that “contenders for
Rashidi Yekini and our compassion deficiency
I was in total bewilderment last Friday evening when news broke of the tragic death of former national football star, Rashidi Yekini.
The politics of national security
PDP got it wrong from the beginning. The party started by saying Mr. A can rule, and Mr. B cannot rule, according to
Fuel Subsidy Funds: Nigeria’s ‘Penkele Messi’
All Nigerians have known for a long while that the fuel subsidy funds were slush funds: used to oil the wheels of
Owoye Azazi’s Nigerian ‘Guantanamo Base’ Detention Centre
Last week, Nigerian newspapers carried a report from the Associated Press (AP), that a secret detention centre to hold and interrogate “suspected
United States: Back in the belly of the whale
THE circumstance has made it almost impossible to write this week’s piece. I am in Las Vegas, in the US state of
Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon: Man of God, adovocate of peaceful co-existence
A FEW weeks ago, I sent a text message to the Anglican Bishop of Kaduna, Bishop Josiah Idowu-Fearon. It was a message that
Kano’s mass wedding for widows
BARRING last minute hitches, if WEEKLY TRUST of Saturday, April 7 is to be believed, the city of Kano, will soon make history. It
Deconstructing Obasanjo’s PDP BOT resignation
OBASANJO is quite personable- much of the time-and…like most rulers, he desperately wanted to be accepted as a political and economic strategist, and