Dialogue With My Country

Dialogue With My Country

Living under the shadow of the gun

Here is the sort of story with a short shelf life on the public imagination. In its issue of November 15, 2020, Daily Trust (Sunday) published a piece

Candle in the wind: Tribute to Balarabe Musa

With the death of Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, former governor of old Kaduna State last week, the tribe of Nigerian socialists has virtually thinned out.

#EndSARS and the challenges of the day after

Thank goodness, life is gradually returning to normal after the whirlwind of #EndSARS protests across much of the country. The surviving victims are p

Not yet the talakawa revolution

The possibility of a talakawa revolution casts a dark shadow at the back of our minds. It may or may never happen. But will the poor continue to take

Dancing at the edge?

Our country is on the edge. You can feel it shaking under the weight of incendiary pronouncements by those who believe it is time to accept that those