Vanguard Personality Award: Lifetime Achievement Award – Alhaji Mamman Daura
… Mamman Daura: Character, Conviction, Consistency By Charles Kumolu, Deputy Editor, Sunday Vanguard NEEDLESSLY misunderstood and strongly admired. He means different things to different age distributions, especially today’s generation. Such a misconception, which may not have arisen from facts, perhaps, stemmed from the diminishing sense of history in Nigeria. The role of prejudice and parochialism […]
Don commiserates with Mamman Daura over brother’s death
A university Don, Professor Benjamin Chukuwma Ozumba ,has described late Muntari Dauda Daura, a younger brother to elder statesman Mallam Mamman Daura as a patriot who rendered selfless service to Nigeria.
Kyari was recommended as Obasanjo’s running mate in 1999 – Daura
Mamman Daura, a nephew to President Muhammadu Buhari, said on Friday a group in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) recommended the late Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari, as ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo’s running mate ahead of the 1999 presidential election. Daura, in a moving tribute to Kyari who died from COVID-19 complications last […]
Malam Abba Kyari: A great public servant by Mamman Daura
By Mamman Daura, Coronavirus is a law, yet lawless unto itself. As of yesterday, it has claimed 183,424 lives worldwide and 28 Nigerians. One of those lives lost was Malam Abba Kyari’s, Chief of Staff to the President. Malam Abba succumbed to complications after contracting and recovering from Corona Virus a week today. Malam Abba […]
Debunking misconceptions about Daura
THERE comes a time in the life of a nation when citizens are left to ponder over the role of leaders and those close to the corridors of power. From time immemorial, the scrutiny of leaders gives citizens the time to guage the direction of the nation according to the role of those wielding influential positions around the seat of power.
The birthday
By Gambo Dori PERHAPS nothing had attracted so much attention in the media than the quiet and subdued celebrations surrounding the 80th birthday of Malam Mamman Daura, editor of the New Nigerian Newspaper, in its heyday of the 1970s. Much had been written, some of it quite bellicose but I guess the great journalist he […]
The Triumph of Mamman Daura
In the affairs of man, there is always the cynic, the traducer, the proponent, the indolent, the diligent, so on it goes. For those who understand this simple principle of life, they become enigmas and a matter of several conjectures by those given to mischief or plain foolishness.
Loyibo greets Daura at 80
*Ask Muslims to imbibe teachings of Prophet Mohammed By Perez Brisibe Traditional Prime Minister of Tuomo kingdom in Delta and Bayelsa States, Chief Mike Loyibo, has described Mallam Mamman Daura, nephew and close confidant of President Muhammadu Buhari as a man that deserved to be celebrated for his sacrifices towards Nigeria’s development, especially in manufacturing […]
Igbo youths celebrate Mamman Daura at 80, felicitate with Muslims on Eid-el-Maulud
The Igbo Youth Assembly (IYA) Worldwide has felicitated with Alhaji Mamman Daura, Nephew and close confidant of President Muhammadu Buhari, on his 80th birthday.
Igbo Youths felicitate with Mamman Daura at 80
The Igbo Youth Assembly (IYA) Worldwide has felicitated with Alhaji Mamman Daura, Nephew and close confidant of President Muhammadu Buhari, on his 80th birthday. A statement signed on Monday by Mr Ifeanyi Nwaudunna, President General, IYA, and Mr Casmir Irekamba, Secretary General stated that Daura deserved to be celebrated for the sacrifices he made towards […]
Mamman Daura’s action diminishes us as a country – Afenifere
FOLLOWING revelations by the daughter of Mamman Daura, Fatimah, that they have been living in the Presidential Villa for over three years, the pan-Yoruba socio-political organization, Afenifere, on Tuesday, said that the revelations diminishes Nigeria as a country.
