Monday Column

Monday Column

Kaduna: El-Rufai’s dying patient

“Writing history in letters of gold”. Those are the words with which President Buhari praised the Governor of Kaduna State, Malam Nasir El-Rufai, afte

Complexities of Banditorism 2

The complexities of ethnic identity associated with banditorism in the states like Kaduna, Katsina, Niger, Sokoto and Zamfara are further compounded b

Complexities of banditorism

Late last week, communities in Anka and Bukuyyum local government areas of Zamfara State buried at least 143 people killed in attacks by bandits terro

On Amina of Zazzau, the film

In his The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act (1981), the American cultural critic, Fredric Jameson says that to understand a

‘Professor’ Muhammadu Buhari, the political scientist

A Nigerian president is, by definition, a politician. In his letter to the National Assembly detailing his reasons for not assenting to the Electoral