I didn’t abandon Gov Yusuf; I still like him — Kwankwaso
The Leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, says he is willing to reconcile with Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State. It will be recalled that Yusuf, a staunch adherent of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, won the election in 2023 under the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), and later defected to the All Progressives Congress […]
Elections in 2011: Political development and economic growth
THE last two weeks witnessed the flexing of political muscles by the proponents of the ruling party‘s controversial ‘zoning‘ system and the new apostles of unconditional and free choice of leadership of the party and the country.
Ghana yes but …
I do not know whether you also saw him, tastefully dressed on cable tv, appealing to us to shun the green white green and put on the red,green and yellow colours of Ghana. “ blah….blah…. me and my peeps blah…. Blah…. Support Ghana blah ….blah …blah…â€
Domestic violence women’s cross to bear? (5)
The misunderstanding was between me and my brother-in-law, the last born of the family. It would have been a minor incident but for the way it was handled. However, it was the quarrel that opened my eyes and made me aware of the kind of people I lived with. Most of all, that my mother-in-law was not the person I took her to be.
Dangerous regional games
A nation divided right across with an imaginary battle line drawn between them. Whoever emerges as the president of this country under such arrangement will not be a Nigeria leader. He will be a regional leader.
A retrivable future
COLONALISM was like slavery, one of the most vicious crimes against humanity. But the last 50 years of political independence in a country like ours deepened that tragedy; the colonial masters seemed more humane. The same banditry and misappropriation of our national wealth goes on except that each stage seems a worse pedestal than the previous.
