In August 1985, the military regime of President Ibrahim Babangida IBB, appointed the then Major Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, the military governor of Kaduna State which at the timeincluded the present katsina State. Dangiwa – the more popular of his names was not only a relatively junior officer among top ranking military personnel who held critical […]

Beloved, we thank God for taking us through the first six months of the year.  We’ve just gone past half of the month of June.  May God help us end this year joyfully in Jesus name. I hope you got a Father’s blessing on the occasion of Father’s Day last Sunday.  If you missed it, its […]

By Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi A few years ago, I was having a conversation with a friend of mine who was about to get married for the second time. My friend, who I will call Becky, was in her late-forties. Her fiancé was a widower, let us call him Mr Ben, and was approximately ten years older than […]

The Samuel Okwaraji incident of 1992, when the young lawyer slumped and died on the field of play during a World Cup qualifying match

The boy child is dying in silence, and we are too busy clapping for our progress to notice. In our hurried race to lift the girl child and rightly so we trampled over the boy