Monday Column

Monday Column

Uneasy lies Chairman’s head

The most engaging political story in Nigeria last week was the determined push by powerful elements within the ruling All Progressives Congress [APC]

Wanted: 1970s-style think tank

Two years ago, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo said at a Daily Trust Dialogue session that problems continue to fester in this country with no solution i

In high places

Twenty years ago, a friend [?] accused me of having the natural story-telling instincts of an Oriental Jew. I am sorry to vindicate him on this occasi

Blackest of black stomach

Truncation of an elected political office holder’s mandate is the blackest of all political black stomach, to transliterate the Hausa phrase bakin cik

45 years on the throne

VIPs from all over the North, from across the country and from abroad congregated in Zaria at the weekend to felicitate with the Emir of Zazzau, Alhaj