PENULTIMATE Saturday in Katsina a ceremony of great significance held in the palace of the Emir, HRH Abdulmumini Kabir Usman where he turbaned Senator Ibrahim Ida as the Sardaunan Katsina. Senator Ida is a friend of this page and a keen follower, who has never hesitated to contribute to debates on thorny national issues.

MANY of us had resigned ourselves to the second term of Muhammadu Buhari as President, until the emergence of Abubakar Atiku as candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. A year ago, whenever I peered into the Nigeria’s political landscape, especially into the campaign year, I always failed to view anyone in the PDP, the other major party, or wherever, with the sufficient stature to challenge and deny Buhari a second term.

FINALLY, when the skies fell on Skye Bank there was hardly a whimper of surprise. Most stakeholders in the banking industry had seen it coming for long. If there is any surprise at all, it is the length of time it had taken the regulators to wield the big axe on the sick bank.

We have a very prosperous country with abundant resources that needs a little bit of better management to get us to where we want to be

Kuriel was so successful in Amul that in 1967, the Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri tasked Kurien to replicate the Amul’s success nationwide

All the stakeholders are unanimous on the need for the federal government to roll out a scheme of incremental stiff tariffs on the imports of dry powdered milk

THE  rains will soon be over in the Sahel Savannah and pastoralists will be moving in droves down to the south for greener pastures as they have done for generations. Inevitably the clash will occur here and there with the sedentary farming communities.

Sorting out the problems of the dairy industry will take far more than these gestures to cleanse up the Augean stables in the herdsmen imbroglio

The next governor will need to rebuild virtually all the public buildings destroyed – schools, hospitals and offices.He will need to link up with the federal government to rebuild all its road that are now in the state of dilapidation

When the bag was eventually collected, the contents, including a handsome amount of American dollars, phone, wristwatch, and other valuables were intact

The challenge of dealing with the situation is indeed enormous and one must appreciate the tenacity of those states coping with it

It is a fairy tale come true for the boy who had to surmount plenty of difficulties to get to this Olympian height

The solution is our legal enforcement system must be made to work, and must be made to work on time, and it must be made to work intelligently

The proponents of state police claim to have learnt from the example of the SIECs and have gone ahead to propose aligning appointments to the top posts of state police to what obtains in the judiciary

Instead of making changes in the law to streamline the Force and look at what is hindering its performance, we are proposing the death penalty to the very existence of the Force