Thursday Column

Thursday Column

Has the rain washed the chalk off the white lion?

The governor of my home state of Kogi, Yahaya Bello, suffered a knockout blow last week at the APC convention despite boasting with unbridled gusto th

A letter for Buhari, a letter for his compatriots

Dear Mr President, Now that the issue of your successor, at least within the frame of your party has been decided, and you have exactly 11 months left

How to wear down an entire country

I remember the first election campaign that meant anything to me. It was the 1993 elections. After the Buhari and IBB years, between 1985 and 1993, th

A goat named Saddam

Once when we were much younger, our neighbours in Jos had a furiously fertile she-goat that birthed a litter of two or three kids now and then. But in

Deborah: We have a lynching problem

Since last week’s killing of Deborah Yakubu for insults hurled at the Prophet of Islam, Muhammad (SAW), there have been different kinds of emotions, e