Campaign, no campaign, by Dakuku Peterside
Nigeria’s political parties can tell us who will coordinate their campaigns, mobilise supporters and deliver strongholds. They owe us comparable clarity on who will deliver safer communities, functioning hospitals and an economy where work pays. As preparations for 2027 gather momentum, the machinery for winning power is becoming visible. The case for exercising it deserves […]
Pleasures and pains of newly-weds
As newly-weds settle into matrimony, they are confronted with new experiences and challenges.
The gods must be angry
The room was dark; matching his mood. But the grey light that filtered in through the slits between the heavy drapes showed dawn had finally broken.
*the confab continues
Among the recommendations of the recent National Conference of 492 delegates are some proposals that need to be seriously reviewed. One of them is the removal of the immunity clause from the Constitution.
So sad
My dear friends, Nasir and Hadiza El-Rufai, have lost two children in three years. First (in 2011), their beautiful daughter, Yasmin, passed away after suffering a seizure in the bathroom of her residence in London, where she was studying. Then (last month), their darling son, Hamza, died in a car accident in Abuja.
The tortuous but less slippery bad 2015
Contrary to what an expartriate colleague said to me in 1976 (after the coup that toppled Gen Yakubu Gowon from power and the bloody overthrow of his successor, Gen Muritala Mohammed) that “I am happy that I am not a Nigerian”, I am proud to be a loyal Nigerian citizen Nigeria is a country of absolute beauty and of continually changing phases. But I must confess that Nigerians are as unpredictable as the English weather.
