After the Kafanchan riot in 1987 following the OIC (Organisation of Islamic Conference), the editors of Thisweek magazine decided to go beyond reporting the crisis and get a deeper understanding of the cause. Editors were dispatched to various parts of the North. I was dispatched to Sokoto.

SENATOR Musa Salisu Matori represented Bauchi South in the Senate between 1999 to 2003. In this interview with Vanguard, he among others decried the media’s alleged bias against the National Assembly and why Nigerian roads may remain death traps for a long time.

THIRTY-NINE years of continuous wars, a referendum that came four years after the papers were signed, South Sudan on Saturday became the world’s newest country, with all the hopes and aspirations of independence. The national anthem above captures those ambitions in crisp terms.

Former captain of the national team, Kanu Nwankwo has described the defeat of the Olympic Eagles in the 2011 All Africa Games qualifier by their Ghanaian counterparts in Kumasi Sunday as bad news.

THE pain inflicted on Lagosians by the torrential downpour last Sunday bit harder, yesterday, when 25 corpses were recovered including those of 11 children.