Column No. 6

A weekly column by Abdulkareem Baba Aminu, which touches on general issues

Column No.6: Life in Asiwaju’s house of commotion

They say there is no disinfectant like sunlight, and even science supports that. I type this as I think of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s “address”, wh

Food prices, and other Nigerian horror stories

Like most of you reading this, I have been suffering the affliction called Nigeria for a long time. Do not get me wrong: I love my country with all my

There are far too many guns in the land

Sometime in February this year, Kaduna State Governor Uba Sani was in the news, where he claimed that there were about 200 million illegal firearms in

Column No.6: Everything old is new again

Because I fancy myself as being a bit of a futurist, “everything old is new again,” a famous quote from Jonathan Swift which has been revived many tim

Column No.6: The shock of Akpabio’s Twilight Zone tendencies

One of my favourite TV programmes is the ever-popular ‘The Twilight Zone’, a classic science fiction anthology series about ordinary people trapped in