Buhari, Yahaya Bello and suffering masses of Kogi
By Jibrin Sam Okutepa, SAN Since yesterday when I saw Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of APC with Yahaha Bello, APC candidate for November […]
Column / Opinion
“Mugabe: Indoda Sabili at 87
By Adamu Adamu Robert Gabriel Mugabe was in prison when he was elected to head the Zimbabwe African National Union, ZANU; and when he came […]
Governor Buni’s 100 days of continuity and innovation
Muhammad Abdullahi The “First Hundred Days” is an American political tradition that the rest of the world has adopted. It is designed to allow both […]
BEYOND THE STREET ATTACKS: THE DEEP, CAPACIOUS LINEAGE OF AFROPHOBIA IN SOUTH AFRICA
Let no one tell you that the Afrophobic violence in South Africa is a recent or isolated phenomenon. It is not. Makwerekwere, a term of […]
Humanitarian Affairs Ministry: Buhari’s new thrust at crisis management
By Ibrahim Sheme Of the 43 ministries whose heads were sworn in by President Muhammadu Buhari on August 21, 2019 as his new cabinet, none […]
Agenda for the new Minister of Humanitarian Affairs
By Jide Ojo To many discerning observers of Nigeria’s humanitarian crisis, it is heartwarming that President Muhammadu Buhari deemed it fit to create a Ministry […]
Between ethnic and criminal profiling
By Majeed Dahiru The rising cases of kidnappings and killings in the southern part of Nigeria, a country that has gained global infamy as the […]
Capturing Ajaokuta Steel Project in President Buhari’s next level agenda
By Ahmed Adoke The dream of Nigeria to have a reliable steel industry that will not only form the bedrock of the country’s industrialization, but […]
THE IPOB HUMILIATION OF NDIGBO AT NUREMBERG
By Majeed Dahiru The period between 2015 and 2019 can perhaps be said to be the most difficult in the political life of Nigerians of […]
Political vendetta or anti-corruption war
By Zainab Suleiman Okino For the lay person, series of events in the last few weeks are convincing evidences that the anti-corruption slogan of the […]
The nation of Nigeria as a fact of nature, by Majeed Dahiru
Nigeria’s ethno-geographic diversity is often cited as a major stumbling block towards unity and oneness of purpose. It is generally believed that a […]
Tukaru: The inhuman treatment of immigrants in Saudi Arabia, by Adamu Tilde
‘Tukaru’ is a derivative of the corrupted word ‘Takrur’ which means black. ‘Tukaru’ is a collective name of illegal, undocumented black migrants in the Kingdom […]
INTERVIEW: My experience as an African studying in China
Zakaria Migeto, a Doctoral student from Tanzania, studies Sociology and International Development in Beijing, China. I met with him recently at the lobby of the […]
A revolution is not a wedding party, by Majeed Dahiru
August 5th 2019 may go down in Nigeria’s history as the date of a revolution that never was. 48 hours to the commencement of the […]
Our bor-again incumbent president, by Binzak Azeez
The current 4th republic democratic dispensation in Nigeria has produced two old Generals as democratically elected presidents. One of them is President Muhammadu Buhari who […]