Until his sudden demise in a plane crash two years ago, my friend and kindred poet, Professor Pius Adesanmi, had a way of prodding me back to memory – that uncontested space where reflections become a burden and a necessity. A few years ago, during our telephone conversation in which we threw banter at each…
Paranoia makes governance costly under dictators. This personality disorder trait, which makes a dictator delusional, compels him to chase shadows where there is no light, enemies where there is none, to the extent that his self-repressed personality becomes the mirror that expresses his fears and anxieties. A paranoid dictator always stands in front of the…
Away from the gloom and doom happening here in Nigeria, Europe and the South America continents have been treating the world to scintillating soccer this past month. By the time you read this, one of Brazil or Argentina must have lifted the 2021 South American football championship trophy, otherwise known as Copa America. The final…
“Bandits kill seven in Kaduna communities”, a colleague of mine read aloud a headline from an online media she was reading on her phone, the other day. “Uhnm”, was my reply. And she too just continued pressing her phone without being annoyed at my nonchalant response. As a matter of fact, she didn’t expect any…
Acknowledging the successes recorded in increasing immunization coverage and reducing infant deaths from vaccine preventable diseases in state, Governor Badaru Abubakar, has pledged to support an iNGO, New Initiatives – All Babies Are Equal Initiative (NI-ABAE) in its Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programme. NI-ABAE is providing cash to mothers as incentives to encourage them to…
The Adara Development Association (ADA), an umbrella body for the Adara ethnic nationality in Kajuru and Kachia Local Government Areas of Kaduna, has kicked against an executive bill by the Kaduna State Government, seeking to reform traditional institutions in the state. According to the Kaduna state governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, the executive bill titled, “A…
