Sunday Comments

Sunday Comments

The great editor we lost

I knew Hajiya Bilkisu at least a decade before I got to see her. In the early 1980s she was the editor of Sunday Triumph, the broadsheet newspaper est

Unemployment: Opportunities for small – scale businesses

Rural communities in Nigeria are mainly characterised by people with low levels of living. They are enmeshed in absolute poverty, low per capital inco

Counter-Terrorism: A Call on Borno Elite

The signal we receive daily in counterterrorism campaigns, especially from Borno State is disturbing and alarming. The alleged conspiracy and seeming

Workers’ strikes: The annoying posture of Ondo State

Many of Nigeria’s 36 states are still in turmoil over unpaid workers’ salaries. Although the fall in oil revenue which drastically reduced

36 Hours in Portland, Oregon

There is no place in the country better known as a bastion of good living, leisure and happy inebriation than Oregon’s largest little city, the