Notes from Atlanta

Notes from Atlanta

Garba Shehu and Buhari’s £6-million london ear treatment

I have avoided publicly joining issue with Malam Garba Shehu, my former teacher at Bayero University Kano. For instance, on September 16, a well-known

“Change begins with me” campaign as a bait-and-switch scam

The Buhari government’s “Change Begins with Me” campaign is perhaps the cheekiest bait-and-switch governmental scam in Nigerian hist

Einstein was a Polytechnic Graduate: Thoughts on Nigerian HNDs

Last week’s column titled ‘Ibrahim Waziri: From HND in Nigeria to PhD in America,’ recalled a column I wrote on December 27, 2009 on

Ibrahim Waziri: From HND in Nigeria to PhD in America

What you will read below is the inspirational story of a 29-year-old Nigerian from Bauchi who graduated with an HND in Electronics Engineering from th

Naming a Dog and Buhari’s Emerging Democratic Tyranny

Buhari’s administration is shaping up to be perhaps the most intolerant and petulant civilian administration in Nigeria. But it isn’t the