Opinion

By Hassan Gimba In the past three years, at least eight African countries have witnessed military coup d’états. This is coming when it was thought that Africa’s democracy had come of age when we were beginning to think that coups had…
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By Balogun Ibrahim I had almost gone to bed last week on the 22nd August, 2023 when a phone call filtered in from Abeokuta to engage me in an informal chat as usual. The caller, Adedunola Adele, who happened to be my old-time friend,…
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By Hassan Gimba At about 1 am, on the cold night of Friday, August 2, 2019, exactly two months after celebrating his 34th birthday, Malam Abubakar Idris, commonly known as Abu Hanifa Dadiyata, or just Dadiyata, was abducted in front of his…
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By Bashir Kabir Human capital comprises several factors, including Hard skills and soft skills. Higher education and training. Intelligence and emotional intelligence. The very ingredient basis of human development is directly…
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By Hassan Gimba This, being a follow-up to last week's write-up, was first published on February 22, 2021. We have looked at various forms of government in the first part of this treatise. We ended with the posers, “Can we continue…
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By Prof. Umaru A. Pate This is one sad and painful tribute I would have prayed never to offer a tribute in the memory of my bosom professional colleague and confidant, Professor Lai Oso, of the School of Communication at Lagos State…
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By Bashir Suwaid In a recent landmark decision, the National & State House of Assembly elections petition tribunal in Kano nullified the election of Muktar Yarima, a member of the NNPP, for Tarauni Federal Constituency due to…
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By Yushau A. Shuaib The hurriedly declared resolution of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to deploy troops to restore democracy and reinstate the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum of Niger Republic, after the military…
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By Salisu Na'inna Dambatta A report in the Nigerian Journal of Cardiology in 2021 indicates  that,  heart or  cardio vascular  diseases involving the heart and blood vessels, particularly obesity-induced hypertension,  are rampaging…
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By Mallam Murtala Kazaure In an era where technology permeates every aspect of our lives, leaders who embrace the potential of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the digital economy are best positioned to propel their…
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