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One bad year for incumbents
Every incumbent ruler around the world should say a prayer. The year 2024 looks to be a big Waterloo for...
A giant cut down to dwarf
If you're tired of being addressed as a giant, how about being treated or mistreated as though you were a...
How much do you know?
In the world of scholarship, knowledge humbles the learned. A well-read would never say he is one. Anyone who, for...
Traditional institutions under siege II
In furtherance of my argument that the Nigerian constitution should be amended to enshrine the powers and autonomy of traditional...
Between Louse and Double Louse
Watching clips of last Thursday’s first presidential debate between US President Joseph Biden of the...
The drummer boys again [2]
The following is the concluding part of Alkasum Abba's cerebral piece in which he takes us through the 'sins' of...
A virtue cherished by all, epitomized by few
If there is anything that is conspicuously missing in the character of many if not most men and women of...
Four Groups of Trouble Makers in the Village
Some four years ago when a wise elder in the community where I farm sensed that upon my retirement from...
Traditional institutions under siege
Nigeria's traditional institutions have long played a critical role in the country's peace, stability, and social fabric. These revered traditional...
This ‘fight to the finish’
It was Kano State Governor Abba Kabir Yusuf’s spokesman Sanusi Bature Dawakin Tofa who, at the weekend, introduced the very...