A number of dramatic incidents have been recorded since President Muhammadu Buhari came out on the hustings, preparatory to the February 16 presidential election. Those incidents have compelled a revisit of the Jubril el-Sudaniya narrative. Politicians’ imaginations are fertile in the making of propaganda and deployment of the same in demonising the other camp and its members.

“He has got the Midas touch. Anything he touches turns to gold”. Many of us might be familiar with that famous line in the beautiful soul rendition of the ’80s. Well, we are no longer in the ’80s, as someone is replicating the Midas touch once again. But this time around, in the Nigerian Army. […]

By Jubril Gambo A PEOPLE’S Democratic Party, PDP,  leader in Edo State in a recent media interview noted that most members of the governing All Progressives Congress, APC,  in the state are waiting for the governorship elections to sabotage the party at the polls. He attributed the development to the fact that many of such potential […]

There is vast empirical evidence that taxation correlates highly with economic growth in addition to some spill-over effect on effective service delivery

By John Hosea There has been quite an upheaval on the operations of the Nigerian Army in Taraba state in recent times. So much so that it portrayed the Nigeria army as having ulterior motives in its activities in Taraba state, especially as it concerns the farmers/herders conflict. I recall that the Nigerian Army had […]