Notes from Atlanta

Notes from Atlanta

Abba Kyari’s cowardly SLAPP against the Punch over alleged scam

In American media law, SLAPP is an acronym for “Strategic LawsuitAgainst Public Participation.” It’s a type of frivolous lawsuit whose ultimate goal i

Re: Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s anti-Saraki Ilorin purism

What follows is a response to my two-part series on the Ilorin identity and the place of the Sarakis in it. The author advances the same sadly familia

Trump, Buhari, xenophilia and “lifeless” “integrity”

President Muhammadu Buhari’s supporters are frothing at the mouth with impotent rage because the Financial Times reported President Donald Trump

Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s anti-Saraki Ilorin purism (II)

 Last week, I pointed to the presence of non-Muslim Fulani pastoralists in Afonja’s army before the arrival of Alimi in Ilorin in 1817- at

Ilorin is an Ethnogenesis: Response to Kawu’s anti-Saraki Ilorin purism

This is a difficult column to write because Malam Ishaq Modibbo Kawu, director-general of the National Broadcasting Commission whom Premium Times of A