Opinion

By Farooq A. Kperogi, Ph.D. I have always been fascinated by Yoruba people’s creative morphological domestication of Arabic names. There are scores of Yoruba names that are derived from Arabic but which are barely recognizable to Arabs or other African Muslims because they have taken on the structural features of the Yoruba language. This is…

By Isa Gusau From the most part of March 2020 to date, I have observed that Borno’s Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, abandons the executive red chair and desk in his main office at the Government House in Maiduguri. So far, Prof has left that elegant ‘seat of power’ largely idled for nearly two years….

By Abdullahi Adamu “Lokoja-Kogi Federal Constituency is going to witness a refined and detribalised anchor who sees Representation as a call to serve and not a path to self adulation” That anchor is no other than Hon. Danladi Sulaiman Aguye (DSA) A thorough bred Lokoja man with passion for collective growth. Haven venture into the…

By Yushau A. Shuaib During a visit to Lagos on an advocacy campaign on the need for the diversification of the Nigerian economy in 2004, the Chairman of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC), Engineer Hamman Tukur told the then Governor Bola Tinubu that any local government created outside the constitution was deemed…

The APC saga, Adegboyega Oyetola and IleriOluwa After Oyetola’s victory in the courts, members who left the party in anger before the 2018 election began to retrace their steps back to the APC. But there was perceived thawing in the party because the governor, Adegboyega Oyetola is not from the western part of the state…

By Iliyasu Zakari In the words of Jim Ron, “A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.” Since he made the first attempt to contest, a lot has changed and Hon. Aguye, a personality bestowed…

by Aliyu Dahiru Aliyu The exciting season of political clamour has returned. The drums have begun to beat, and politicians have begun to sell their personal interests in the name of national interests. Politicians have started to make noise, feeding people lies and promising the possible and the impossible. The game is an art of…

Governor of Kogi State, Alhaji Yahaya Bello will enjoy not one but three significant advantages over other contestants as the race to the 2023 presidential election is fast approaching. Prime among the factors that may boost Bello’s campaign and quest to succeed President Muhammadu Buhari in 2023 is the relationship he currently enjoys with the…

By Comrade Ibrahim Shaiubu Nuhu Despiration as defined by the Oxford Dictionary is a sense/feeling/show of hopelessness that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with. Hon Aguye is far from what they ascribed to him (Desperate) but a complete and perfect state’s and gentlemen. It is unstatemanship of a supposed…

By Mofiinternational Usman The calling of my bosom friend Hon. Danladi Suleiman Aguye accrosed the length and breath of Lokoja /Kogi Federal constituency as their hopeful house of Representatives candidate under the platform of All Progressive Congress (APC) ahead of 2023 is beyond desperation or what some will view as a practice of taking advantage…