Kano’s 9 and the rage of “saints” (I)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com Fifty-year old former Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Sani Yerima, announced in 2010 he was marrying a young Egyptian girl, Marian -who the Media, without confirming from the future groom or his bride-to-be’s family, had claimed she was 13 years old. Yerima himself More...
Jonathan: Sinner or saint?
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com That the Jonathan government “was decadently corrupt” I said when I wrote ‘Jonathan: A Good Riddance’, “is not to be debated More...
Atiku’s lamentable lamentation (II)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com The Daily Times’ great satirist, Ndaeyo Uko, once told the story of two ‘mad’ men, one of whom found his moment of lucidity More...
Atiku’s lamentable lamentation (I)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com It seemed like some kind of ‘after death, the doctor’, when Atiku Abubakar reportedly resigned to invoking the metaphysical: More...
‘East or West, home is best’
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com As staff of the late MKO Abiola’s defunct ‘Concord Press of Nigeria, CPN, I was one of 13 State House Correspondents on the advance More...
Xenophobia: Etymology of a hate-word
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com By Mohammed Adamu The first time I looked up the dictionary meaning of ‘xenophobia’ I realized just how presumptively carefree More...
One ‘Kanu’ for a thousand ‘fraudsters’ (II)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com The underlying basis for the conduct of extradition between and among nations, is the salient extension of the struggle by states More...
One ‘Kanu’ for a thousand ‘fraudsters’ (I)
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com United States of America’s Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI recently released a list of 77 Nigerians resident in the U.S. that More...
Ekwerem’s ‘Pax Germanica’
THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com I watched about four different video footages -each recorded from a different angle- capturing that infamous IPOB attack on Senator More...
Random musing on ‘revolution’’ (II)
Omoyele Sowore THURSDAY Column with Mohammed Adamu (08035892325 sms only) | dankande2@gmail.com The law –for all its vaunted rectitude- has not always strictly been about what is ‘right’ or what is ‘wrong’. More...