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Let the north beware

Chatting with colleagues who cover Nigeria for international media, I wasn’t surprised to hear that they’re struggling to get stories in. The world cu

So silent an orphan parliament

Its conception was probably by African Ancestral Spirits visiting Kwame Nkrumah as he slept and blowing it into his brain through his ears; either whi

What next beyond reports of the National Conference?

Like a team of anxious medical personnel in a labour ward who are eager to assist in delivering a pregnant woman of her baby, the National Conference

Re: My fear for Borno State

My two pieces on Borno in the past two weeks generated quite some responses, all of them supportive of the concern I expressed for Borno. I would have

Reflections on Imam Mahdi (II)

I met him and his family at a tafsir session in the mosque within his compound. I joined the women in their section of the mosque. They were reading S