Any political investment that is anchored on personal reward is nothing far from selfish investment. A Yoruba man reigned as president from 1999 to 2007 and never provide any traceable tangible development for the region, it took a Fulani man faced with global financial meltdown and Covid 19 logjam to build the Lagos -Ibadan Expressway afresh and linked Lagos to Abeokuta with modern rail transport at a time his region of Bauchi-Kano- Borno that rained in the thunderous votes have no traces of these critical infrastructures. In life, no matter our biases, we must be fair to genuine efforts rendered…
Author: Abdullahi O Haruna
By Abdullahi O. Haruna Haruspice Like the lake, quiet in solitude, Mai Mala Buni the governor of Yobe State who doubles as the Chairman Caretaker Committee of the All Progressives Congress APC exhibited what would eventually become a plausible reference guide for political leadership, especially when faced with tumultuous pressure. Last week saw the nation enveloped in a melodrama that left political players and onlookers bemused and flummoxed. It started with a commando-like entry of the governor of Niger State Abubakar Sani Bello into the APC secretariat located at the Blantyre street in Wuse, Abuja, the nation’s capital. It was…
Shamaki Adamu is a soldier of the Nigerian Army, a university graduate before joining the army. This Kaduna born lad has been in the battlefront for since years now. Something very tragic happened while in the battlefront, he lost his elder brother. But he didn’t get to hear until months later. He stumbled on the internet and found to his chagrin that his brother had passed away. He called home and the story was same. Like that, he returned back to the war front where has been home for him for years! He is not alone in this excruciating venture,…
