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With the swearing-in of Abba Kabir Yusuf, Kano State governor-elect, only 21 days away, the recent revelation by Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, his political godfather, that the incoming government would review the dethronement of Emir Muhammadu Sanusi II and the ‘balkanisation’ of the Kano emirate has continued to heat the polity with different viewpoints for and…
•••Democracy And Freedom of Speech By Gabriel Atumeyi As the Kogi state body politics heats up once again as stakeholders and citizens anticipates going to the polls to determine who wields executive power for the next four years and determine the direction of the state’s forces of our relatively little corner of our beloved country,…
Your Excellency, I am writing this open letter to you because of my love for the All Progressive Congress (APC), a party which you and other progressives fought hard to build to entrench the progressive political ideologies to the body politics of our great country. The formation of the APC brought relief to the citizens…
By J.O. Abel-Ontop It is important for the people of Kogi West to vehemently reject the role of 3rd Class Citizen that is being sold to them by strangers (Kogi Central and Kogi East) of the region. I observe pitifully with dismay how some indigents of Kogi West accept the gullible joker that they are…
By Sha’aban Gimba Hajara For many, mother-in-law-musings have a ring of reality.But, for me they don’t, I had a perfect mother-in-law.For the past 10 years I had been her daughter-in-law, we had never had cross words.My mother-in-law was an example and inspiration to me and my family. She had much an impact in my life…
By: Cham Faliya Sharon “Kukah to Nigerians: Reclaim the Nigeria we knew before Buhari” Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah has never ever hidden his disdain and contempt for the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari and the APC. At any given occasion, especially during Christian festive seasons, he never ever misses the opportunity of wasting that opportunity…
Adebayo Obajemu Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi State since 27 January 2016 has left an indelible mark in the state such that future chroniclers of governance in the Confluence state will have tons of information and mine of anecdotes to depend on in order to write a definite history of his time in governance, spanning…
By Daniel Adaji. In Kogi State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary election conducted on April 14, 2023, the Auditor-General of Local Governments in the state, Usman Ododo, was declared winner, in spite of the outcry by party members that no election took place. But did Ododo, an appointee of Yahaya Bello, qualify to have…
By DSSA Solidarity Group “Our attention has been drawn to a publication written by One Tim Ejiga and promoted by some interested politicians. “The promoters of the publication negatively captured their misgivings in phrases such as: Sen. Smart Adeyemi use and dumped friend”. “We would not have to joined issues with the promoters of the…
Samuel Aina. If I am called upon to tell this story a thousand times, I will create time for it. My name is Samuel Babatunde Aina. I come from Isanlu-Makutu, Yagba East LGA of Kogi State. My father was well known (still is) and respected, even more so in Kano State where he established a…
