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NOTES FROM ATLANTA WITH FAROOQ KPEROGI When I read the heartbreaking news of Malam Ahmed Joda’s passing on August 13 at the age of 91, fond memories of my encounters with him welled up in my mind. To the rest of the country, he was famous for being a cerebral and principled civil servant who…
The director-general of the Progressive Governors Forum, Salihu Lukman, has faulted the claim by the former chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, that the two biggest parties in Nigeria – Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress – have failed the people. Professor Jega had said during an interview on the BBC Hausa Service on…
By Ayo Esan With barely over 500 days until the next presidential election, the search for Nigeria’s next president is already dominating public discourse across the landscape as citizens desperately seek a new president, someone that can bring healing to the divided country and restore hope, confidence and prosperity in the multi-ethnic oil producer. Public…
Katsina State governor, Aminu Masari, has dismissed the call by the state’s chapter of Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG) for his resignation over his stance on self-defence against bandits, describing it as absurd. The Governor’s reaction is contained in a statement by his Director-General on Media, Alhaji Abdul Labaran, on Sunday in Katsina. Governor Masari…
Controversial Islamic cleric Sheikh Ahmad Gumi has condemned the hiring of private jets by politicians to attend the wedding ceremony of the Yusuf Buhari, the son of President Muhammadu Buhari. The president’s son married Zarah Bayero, the daughter of Emir of Bichi, Nasiru Bayero in a grand ceremony held in Bichi, Kano. The wedding was…
The All Progressives Congress, APC, in Enugu State has accused former Senate President, Chief Ken Nnamani of displaying anti-party tendencies despite his claims of rejigging the party. This is as the former lawmaker was accused of being APC in the day and PDP in the night. The party spoke in reply to Nnamani’s recent statement…
Kidnappers of Bethel Baptist School students on Saturday night released 15 students. Recall that scores of students were kidnapped two months ago. While a few of them were released, 70 other students were still in the hands of their abductors who demanded huge sums of ransom from their parents. Following the huge demand, parents have…
Gruesome lives of families torn apart by banditry in Zamfara • A victim of bandit attack being taken for burial Men share their wives with bandits, orphans litter the state as terror escalates Rekiya Dingi has no happy place. Her childhood home is a coffin for her loved ones. A casket of love through which…
Former Emir of Kano and Khalifah of Tijjaniya brotherhood in Nigeria, Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi 11 embarked on a three days visit to Lokoja to meet members of Tijjaniya brotherhood and Muqqaddams from the area. The former Emir who arrived Lokoja Thursday paid a courtesy called on Maigari of Lokoja ,His Royal Highness Alhaji (…
Lokoja was one of the first places in present middle Belt region to come into contact with the Tijjaniya order. Two major chains of authority of the order had been acting in Lokoja, before the emergence in the area of Sheikh Ibrahim Nyass ( FAILA) movement in 1949. These included the UMARIAN TIJJANIYA,and a MAQRIBIAN…
