Column No. 6

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

Column No.6: Nigeria’s aversion to research, and how to cure it (II)

Our collective national disdain for research does not stop with institutions. After all, who runs the institutions, if not human beings? And in any ca

Column No.6: Can a book solve the world’s problems? (II)

Now, the trouble with Nigerian leaders (and I use this term loosely), is that we seem to have a collective, limited attention span, so…

Column No.6: Can a book solve the world’s problems?

Of course the question that makes up the title of this week’s piece is being asked figuratively, after I finished racing through a new book I bought r

Column No.6: Again, who will pay the ransom for Nigeria?

This article is a re-visitation of sorts, title included, albeit with a slight tweak. The original had me doing a post-birthday retrospective against

Column No.6: Car, train or aeroplane: A Kaduna traveller’s dilemma

A close friend called me on Friday afternoon to ask about the Abuja-Kaduna highway, as I have been known in the past to frequent that…