Saturday Column

Saturday Column

ADIEU SATURDAY COLUMN: WHATEVER HAS A BEGINNING…

A Journey So Long…began so long ago – right from primary school where I was ‘Class Reader’. And then the ‘prophesy’

ALMAJIRI: ONE LAST WORD FROM SOKOTO

If there is any issue that this Column, in its 15-year life, has concentrated on most consistently is the effort to find a lasting solution to the per

MURTALA AFTER 45 YEARS – A HERO FOREVER

“Dan Najeriya na gaskiya/Allah Ya jikan Janar Murtala…” so sang Musa Dankwairo in 1976 when General Murtala Ramat Muhammad, Nigeria’s finest lea

STILL ON LEADERSHIP: A MIDTERM REMINDER

Allah says “Fazakkir!” “Remind, as the reminder benefits the believers.” Every four years or so (generally every midterm through a political term), th

RESTRUCTURING: TIME FOR PMB TO CONVENE HIS OWN CONFAB

Earlier this month, this newspaper, the Daily Trust, convened yet another of its highly-celebrated and nationally-acknowledged Annual Dialogue. The ne