The tragedy called Zamfara state
For almost two decades now, Zamfara state has been in the news; sadly, for all the wrong reasons. If it is not politicised sharia law today, it is lead poison tomorrow, which killed […]
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Keren and Sylvester: So similar, yet so different, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
As bad as abuse of minors is, the Nigerian factor which makes it almost impossible to bring offenders to account, leaves families of victims distraught […]
Osun: Celebrating ‘the cradle of Yoruba civilisation’ at 30, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
Ignore the irony in the title of this article. Osun state is home to Oduduwa, the progenitor of Oranmiyan, the prime-heir of Ile-Ife who returned […]
Electronic Voting Machine: The El-Rufai example and the joke on the Senate, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
The Kaduna State Government conducted their local government elections last weekend using the Electronic Voting Machine (EVM). The election was fraught with many infractions not […]
Mass exodus of doctors and Nigeria’s health sector crisis
The viral video of a recruitment exercise for the employment of Nigerian doctors to work in Saudi Arabia at the peak of Nigeria’s health crisis […]
APC, PDP house of commotion and the imperative of alternatives
The tension arising from governing APC’s multifaceted crises got to their peak last week when the Secretary of the Extraordinary Caretaker and Convention Planning Committee, […]
South Africa, so unlike Nigeria, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
A few weeks ago, South Africa was in turmoil, having witnessed a reenactment of violent uprisings reminiscent of its ugly past, the apartheid era and […]
As banditry eclipses the North, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
The Emir of Kajuru, Malam Hassan Adamu was kidnapped with 13 members of his family and two other people among them women at the weekend. […]
On being angry with the state and INEC, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
Let’s get it right from the start. Nigeria has been a huge disappointment to her citizens, and no one, not even those in the corridors […]
Southern governors’ balance of terror, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
Ever since the Southern Nigerian Governors’ Forum called on the federal government to convene a national dialogue and ban open grazing in the South, the […]
2023: Between a nation’s survival and politicians’ lust after power
A few days ago, Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu’s birthday was marked with a colloquium in the ancient city and most populous (this is debatable) state in […]
The rise and rise of regional and ethnic warlords, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
For the right thinking Nigerian burning with patriotic fervor, there are genuine reasons to be apprehensive about the widened rift among the regions of the […]
Sam Nda-Isaiah: The Friday appointment that never was, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
Death does not diminish its strangeness any time it comes knocking at our door. So was Sam Nda-Isaiah’s, simply known as Sam or chairman. The […]
Misplaced euphoria over America’s ‘flawed’ election, by Zainab Suleiman Okino
In about five days or so that Americans held the world on edge and apprehension over their presidential election, Nigerians had a field day savouring […]