Column No.6: Are the police friends, or fiends?
I once heard a story, about a lady – let’s call her ‘Rakiya’ – driving along the road from the Utako/Wuye axis, up to the bridge which would take one
Column No. 6
A weekly column by Abdulkareem Baba Aminu, which touches on general issues
Column No.6: Big Sallah, bigger wahala
Eid el-Adha, ‘Festival of the Sacrifice’, is one of two official holidays celebrated within Islam (the other being Eid el-Fitr or ‘Festival…
Column No.6: Whatever happened to Abba Kyari?
Just the other day, my mind wandered to Abba Kyari. Not the late erstwhile Chief of Staff to erstwhile president Muhammadu Buhari…
Column No.6: A little taste of Ireland in Abuja
When I got an e-mail from H.E Mr. Peter Ryan, Ambassador of Ireland to Nigeria, inviting me to join him for a special Siamsa (Irish languag…
Column No.6: We would be mad not to take mental illness seriously
Here in Nigeria, it’s generally seen as fine to call a mentally-ill person a ‘madman’ or even ‘mad woman’. But don’t be quick to condemn,…