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How Adamawa nearly took us back to 1983

By Andrew Agbese What happened in Adamawa State on Sunday, where results of the governorship elections were declared and a winner announced midway into collation of results can only be compared to what happened in the 1983 governorship elections across the states. The year 1983 was perhaps one of the worst in terms of election […]
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INEC, Mahmood Yakubu And History

By Kazeem Akintunde I cringed and I was moved to tears after reading a tweet from Abubakar Hamma Galafi on his Twitter handle @Galafo_Hamma recently. Galafi wrote: ‘I cursed this man, Prof Mahmoud in every of my sujoud this fasting and appealed to Allah (SWA) to deny him peace and harmony on earth and in […]
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Of Ramadan, You Be Thief, and Pantami – a mix

By Hassan Gimba This is a repeat as it was first published two years ago, precisely on 19/04/2021. Has anything changed? The reader should say. Ramadan is a month synonymous with fasting in the Muslim world. In Islam, fasting is the practice of abstaining from food, drink, smoking, and sexual activity between dawn and nightfall. At […]
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Men Need Not Be Charming Provided They Are Rich!

By Mohammed Adamu Frankly speaking there’s a little gold digger in virtually all of us. But most women -especially beautiful ones without ethical and moral upbringing- are baba’nla gold-diggers. Meaning that although not all women are gold-diggers, but virtually all gold diggers are women! Call it beauty in the beast; or ‘beast in the beauty’! […]
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Peter Obi’s Animal Farm (I)

By Tunde Odesola Dear Mr Obi, Today being Friday, I should’ve wished you Barka Jumat if you were a Muslim, but being a dyed-in-the-wool Catholic, who cringingly curried Christian favour in the just-concluded presidential election, I think it’s better to wish that the power of Christ’s resurrection heals your frailties – be they moral or […]