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Sani Zorro: The coming of a skilled shepherd as the spin doctor of the shift- Bala Ibrahim
I read this morning with delight, the news that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Muhammad Sani Zorro, journalist, politician and former lawmaker as the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs…
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Why Osinbajo-Bashir Suwaid
By Bashir Suwaid
As Nigerians set their sights on 2023, and hope that someone with gravitas and grassroots prowess can succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in order to consolidate the developmental strategies already embarked upon by the…
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2023: Group unveils Rescue Nigeria Mission for Yahaya Bello in Kano
The Rescue Nigeria Mission, a movement mobilising for the emergence of Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi as Nigeria’s next President, on Saturday, held a town hall meeting with women and youths in Kano.
The coordinator of the movement in Kano…
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Kashim Shettima: Principles, courage, conviction cannot kill a man-Lawan Bukar Maigana
By Lawan Bukar Maigana
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste death but once."
When arguably the all-time world's greatest playwright, Williams Shakespeare, penned the above immortal lines in Act 2 Scene…
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Africa: A continent cursed by the cancerous calamity of coup-Bala Ibrahim
According to history, the 1963 Togolese coup d'état was the first military incursion that occurred in West Africa, and by extension, the first coup of the continent. Since then, to paraphrase the saying of late Professor Ali Mazrui, the…
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Gov. Bala Mohammed and politics of criticism- Danliti Goga
By Danliti Goga
I was putting finishing touches to a criticism of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development following Governor Bala Mohammed of Bauchi State’s disturbing allegation that the…
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Hanifa: A mischance that may melt and merge a malice- Bala Ibrahim
Kano, it’s people and the lovers of justice all over Nigeria and beyond, went to bed last night with a high sense of solace, pursuant to the decision of the court yesterday, Monday, to remand in prison, the confessed killer of little Hanifa…
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2023: Bola Tinubu and his ‘loyal boys’ in government-Yushau A. Shuaib
By Yushau A. Shuaib
During a visit to Lagos on an advocacy campaign on the need for the diversification of the Nigerian economy in 2004, the Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Engineer Hamman…
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Believed Bafarawa’s bond with the boom in banditry- Bala Ibrahim
“Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth”. This is the law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels, who was a German Nazi politician that was the Gauleiter of Berlin, chief propagandist for the Nazi Party, and…
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Hanifa: A heartbreaking homicide that would leave a haunting history-Bala Ibrahim
This is the third attempt I am making to write something on this terrible incident. Each attempt is aborted by the terrifying sickness, sadness and the sentimentality of the imagined feelings of the parents of Hanifa, the fervour of…
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