NIGERIA TO THE DOGS

A few days ago Kadaria Ahmed released a voice note, she addressed to owners/proprietors of media organizations in Nigeria, asking them to work towards stemming the tide of incisive headlines stories being rolled out by their outfits. Warning that if the current trajectory is maintained, the country might become another Rwanda in just a matter […]

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REMEMBER LEAH SHARIBU

We are too quick to forget about things in Nigeria. Unlike other countries, Nigeria doesn’t have a nationally accepted history. History here is the most subjective as can be anywhere else on the face of the earth. Even current affairs isn’t spared the misfortune of distortions, sometimes while it’s unfolding right before our very eyes. […]

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ARIANA GRANDE’S RESPONSE TO TERRORISM

As a kid I fantasized about a future with many a female TV stars of the time, it didn’t matter if by the time I’m grown they’d have become older and possibly be not as desirable as I once thought them. As an adult, only Ariana Grande has been able to ignite such a fire […]

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LAFIYA NOT YET DO-LE

One of the major items on which this President Muhammadu Buhari-led APC (All Progressives’ Congress) Federal Government campaigned on (and won the Presidential Election) was Security, and how within a short period they will find the solution to Nigeria’s security challenges should the party win power at the centre. In the dying days of the […]

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9/11

Was it not a few days ago that it was reported that MARCY BORDERS, whose iconic “DUST LADY” picture following the attacks on World Trade Centre in New York by terrorists on September 11, 2001 made headlines worldwide, had died of cancer? Towards the end of her days, she tended to suggest that her cancer […]

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POST HEGIRA (II)

He wasn’t surprised that for the umpteenth time, Shekau appeared in another video after he was said to have been killed, this time even after pictorial evidence was presented by Nigeria’s military authorities, and disputes with Cameroonian counterparts over which of the country’s forces actually did the killing. He however didn’t doubt that the party […]

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AMINU OGWUCHE: ANOTHER TALE OF BUNGLED PROSECUTION

It was with utter dismay that I heard the news of the striking out of two counts of acts of terrorism proffered against AMINU OGWUCHE, alleged mastermind of the April 14, 2014 NYANYA Motor Park bombing that claimed the lives of about Seventy-five people, for LACK OF “DILIGENT PROSECUTION”. The Prosecutors for the Police and […]

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POST HEGIRA

Moving to Lagos wasn’t easy for him. Because he had to resume almost less than forty-eight hours after leaving Maiduguri, he decided to head straight for Lagos, after briefly setting eyes on his family sheltering in Abuja at his uncle’s. He assured his wife, that as soon as things got sorted out in Lagos, he […]

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HEGIRA (II)

His friend who was at the open field which played host to the CPC presidential candidate, was so alarmed by the sort of messages been bandied about that he decided to record the event on his phone. Only very few minutes was dedicated to highlighting what the party intended to do if elected into office. […]

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