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Shagari as a missed opportunity for Sokoto

They are “handbags” on account of their not having constitutionally-assigned responsibilities beyond what roles the governors, at their pleasure, assi

Aminu Kano: Once upon a radical (II)

Whenever a door closed, Malam Aminu opened another.  Whenever he knocked and the door wasn’t opened, he pulled it down.  And where there was no door,

Command and Control Centre (My brain-child gets a nod)

In the speech he delivered, after being sworn at the Eagle Square yesterday, President Buhari promised to relocate the command and control centre of t

As the real journey begins…

Though this event is indeed significant, being the first of its kind in the history of Nigeria where an incumbent federal government, having lost a re

Buhari’s moment of truth

In my lifetime, I witnessed two political moments of grace. In 1979 when Shehu Shagari replaced Olusegun Obasanjo ‘s khaki with his flowing gown and t