An integral part of the African family setting is the extended family practice. Hardly will you find a Nigerian home without an extended family member resident as some point. Many have them living with them permanently.

In this book, A Life of Courage & Discipline, published by Adio Strategy and Communication, Adamu Garba, the author, tells the story of his life and teaches youths that their dreams can be achieved through hard work and discipline.

‘As I am talking to you, my ministry is yet to receive its budget for 2018. Unfortunately, nature doesn’t wait for budget.

However, you can duplicate universal, timeless and correct principles that have worked for countless others through the ages. The correct source of knowledge or information makes the elimination of ignorance possible and when the right knowledge or information is conceived in the heart, it produces the fruit of wisdom which eliminates ignorance and when ignorance is erased from the mind, quantum leap progress is attained

Thirteen years ago, two Nigerians in their prime died in an auto crash at Potiskum, on their way to Abuja after a rally against deregulation of the downstream sector of the petroleum sector at Maiduguri, organised by the Labour Civil Society Coalition (LASCO). The rally was part of a series of zonal rallies to mobilise working people against the anti-poor neoliberal policies of the Nigerian state which had started in Lagos.