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40 years of Obasanjo

We all know now that Nigeria’s former President Olusegun Obasanjo celebrated the anniversary of his 80th year of his birth this month of March.

SS-20 multiple nuke blasts

Imagine a military battlefield in which the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces suddenly drop an SS-20, triple-headed, 150-kiloton, independently targetab

Nasir El-Rufai’s gift

Six weeks ago, in this column, I diagnosed the Muhammadu Buhari government as having fallen.   With the leaking to the press last week of an expl

‘SCENTED BUDS’ – CELEBRATING YOUTHFUL CREATIVITY

  This is supposed to be the report of the presentation of an anthology of young poets and writers that took place in Kano during the week –

Magu and Daura as signifiers that Presidential authority has crumbled

On the 19th of December last year, I published my column with the title: “The Magu Affair and the Crumbling of Presidential Authority”. I