By George Onmonya Daniel There is story going around that the dethronement of Mallam Sunusi Lamido Sunusi as the Empire of Kano is a plot by the North to make him president after President Buhari. In a country where a lot of people love to weave stories around conspiracy theory, this story is
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BY SIMON REEF MUSA The North that once gave vent to regional development now insists against devolution of power, with its former peaceful ambience now enmeshed in bloodshed and destruction. Amidst the torrent of interminable massacres ripping across the region, the underbelly of hypocrisy and monstrous duplicity of its existence has now been exposed, its […]
One of the big promises made by President Muhammadu in his campaign for Nigeria’s presidency is the Ajaokuta-Abuja-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project. The project entails the “engineering, procurement, construction and commissioning” of 614-kilometers gas pipeline and stations, traversing the states of Kogi, Niger, FCT, Kaduna and Kano. It is to transport dry gas from
In a rather quiet but deft move, the Oyo State government has brought a decent closure to the reign of terror and violence that typifies motor parks in many parts of the South-West region of the country. If it is to be taken that Oyo is a “Pace Setter” state, it must also be acknowledged […]
The United Kingdom’s exit of the European Union is now all but certain. Only the passage of time will reveal what their new relationship shall be. But with this new arrangement, I – like many other Commonwealth leaders – also seek a new settlement: not only of closer relations between the UK and my own […]
By Erasmus Ikhide SINCE Major General President Muhammadu Buhari frauded his way into power with the integrity mantra, some of us who supported him initially have been stoically beating integrity into his integrity-challenged head and government. Regrettably, all such laudable efforts, setting the agenda for his ethnically-induced regime fall into deaf








