TRAVELOGUE Light And Shade In Borno The flight to Maiduguri, last week Tuesday evening, had been delayed for more than three hours. And at a point, not a May 19, 2016
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY BORNO ENTERS POST-INSURGENCY RECONSTRUCTION MODE Last Saturday, Kashim Shettima, the Borno state governor, went on an inspection tour of Auno, Jakana and Beni Sheikh. These are communities October 23, 2015
TRAVELOGUE 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 January 5, 2015
TRAVELOGUE Travel in Borno: The pains of the insurgency In the end, the return journey by road from Maiduguri to Abuja, took fifteen hours! It was certainly one of the scariest December 25, 2014
MISCELLANEOUS Good news from Borno I AM writing these lines on the eve of a trip to BornoState. I have not been back in months, but everybody confirms November 14, 2014
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Who is against democratic structures in the North-East? ON Monday, April 21, 2014, LEADERSHIP newspaper’s lead story said that plans were afoot to suspend democratic structures in Adamawa, Borno and April 24, 2014
TRAVELOGUE A week in Borno I SPENT most of last week in Maiduguri, Borno state, participating in a retreat for political office holders. I have not returned to May 31, 2012
NATIONAL POLITICS & ECONOMY Governor Kashim Shettima and Borno’s renaissance WHEN Vice President Namadi Sambo visited Maiduguri a few days ago, it was the first official visit to Borno, by any of February 7, 2009