THE Peoples Democratic Party is dying of numerous self-inflicted wounds and may not recover for as long as it thinks that Ali Modu Sheriff is its deadliest poison.

ROBERT Gabriel Mugabe, the Pan Africanist and internationalist who was elected Zimbabwean Head of State thirty seven years ago, was 93 this Tuesday February 21. He had for decades championed the slogan “Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans.” Under this, he got the economic control of his country transferred from the minority White racists, to the majority Black population. This was more impactful on the land issue which his neigbours in the Region; Namibia and South Africa are still grappling with, without any solution in sight.

CHIEF Godfrey Kio Jaja Amachree – fondly addressed as “GKJ” by his many friends – was born 100 years ago, on February 27, 1917, to Chief Sekin Jaja Amachree, a pioneering colonial administrator of Kalabari extraction who was widely known as “Pa Sekin”.

CONTROVERSY-prone –or is it controversy-courting- Emir of Kano, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi is at it again. It has not been long since he stirred the hornet’s nest on the typical northerners’ penchant for building mosques even at the expense of child education. Nothing, in all fairness, could have been truer about my Muslim brothers.

IN the traditional African setting, the practice was that as a man grew older, he began to farm nearer home, principally to avoid the rigour of a long walk to the farm. At that time, conventional wisdom also dictated that when a man became terminally ill, he was brought home because there was greater honour in dying at home than being brought home dead.