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Threats of Destabilization: Open Letter to Nigerians

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2020

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) Carl Max was definitely right when he described religion as the opium of the masses. This is even more so in Nigeria, a country that is on record to inhabit the largest number of churches and mosques in the world. Nigeria has

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Re: Why Service Chiefs Cannot Be Changed

Daily Dispatch December 27, 2019

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) Even before Senator Ali Ndume made the now famous remarks last week, to the effect that technically speaking, Nigeria is at a state of war and cannot afford to change the service chiefs heading different branches of the Nigerian military, I was one […]

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Why Our Governors Must Stop Imposing Successors

Daily Dispatch December 20, 2019

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) The first time I came very close to feeling the immense power state governors amass for themselves was in 1992 when Architect Kabiru Ibrahim Gaya included me on his entourage accompanying him to Abuja. Gaya, now a ranking senator, was then the Governor […]

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INSECURITY: The Many Things We Take For Granted

Daily Dispatch December 6, 2019

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) It is often said that one will never know the true value of anything until he loses it. When a billionaire falls sick, he cherishes the poorest person on earth, so much that when the ailment takes a turn for the worse, he […]

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BURATAI: Celebrating The People’s Soldier At 59

Daily Dispatch November 29, 2019

BRASS TACKS with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) Five days ago, specifically on November 24th instant, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai, Chief of Army Staff of the Nigerian Federation turned 59. When he was born in the sleepy town of Buratai in Borno State, little did anyone, probably even his parents, […]

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Nigeria Customs Service: From Abdullahi Dikko to Hamilton Ali

Daily Dispatch November 23, 2019

Brass Tacks with Suleiman Uba Gaya 0803 567 6295 (Text Message Only) One humid evening in April, 2012, I was seated on my desk as editor of the daily edition of one of the biggest newspapers in Nigeria, when I received a call from an unknown number: it was in the heat of production and […]