Opinion

The man Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri was born into a humble background in 1967 at Kirchinga, Madagali local government area of Adamawa State. He attended Central School Gulak and Government Day Secondary Schools Gulak and Michika for his primary and secondary education respectively. Fintiri holds a Bachelor of Arts in History (Hons)...

Foundation is everything. Once anything lacks a solid foundation, it is a matter of time before it comes crashing down. Kwara has started the process to give its primary school children one nutritious meal per day, keying into a programme designed by the Federal Government to tackle a number...

The APC senatorial candidate for Kwara Central, Mallam Saliu Mustapha is reportedly in a dilemma over his relationship with Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq. Reliable sources from within the camp of Mustapha confided that Turaki (the traditional title of Saliu Mustapha) "believed that Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq supported him to clinch the APC...

Perhaps by now, the leadership of the All Peoples Congress (APC) would have started putting heads together to assemble a team of Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs) for a legal firework to extricate the party from a self-contrived mire if the Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, hadn’t intervened and...

It's a pity that in this clime, we play politics with everything including the lives of unsuspecting members of the public. In spite of all that the State of Osun Government did in Ejigbo to avert the disaster that would have followed if the returnees from Ivory Coast had been...

The regular culture of every straying political office holders is that they are friendly during the electioneering period that precedes elections and subsequently swearing-in to their respective offices. Politicians that fall into this category will promise heaven on earth while campaigning to their people. They make available a well prepared...

In some other lands and climes, elections are held on weekdays, in which people cast their votes, and proceed to the office, or other places of endeavor. But here, we must first die many times before our death, when elections approach. Many are the doomsday scenarios painted, that we do...

He told us he would be back at his desk soon. I believed it. But now, it would never happen. Not tomorrow, not next week, not forever. Chief of Staff to the President, Mallam Abba Kyari, has gone the way of all flesh. Our last contact was on Friday, March...

My attention has been drawn to a video circulating on the social media, which shows the Kwara State Governor, Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq speaking while playing host to his Borno State counterpart, Professor Babagana Zulum. One of the things he said in that video, which has left me worried was that it...

It is possible that the first contact was made in 1601 between the French and the peoples of “Guinee” – the name for the lands we know today as Nigeria. Only a few years before, the then Protestant King of France Henry had devised a plan for adventurer Francois...