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In an attempt to canonize the late Malam Abba Kyari his friends in and outside the government have attempted to play on the intelligence of Nigerians and the international community. In particular, the trio of Simon Kolawole, Segun Adeniyi and Waziri Adio who are senior journalists have given the very  misleading impression that their friend was incorruptible, honest and loyal… Read More

The Governor of Kano, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, is in the eye of the storm. Reports of purported “mysterious” deaths in Kano raised eyebrows given the spread of COVID-19 and casualty figures around the world. Media coverage of the deaths intensified as prominent individuals, including the Emir of Rano, academics, politicians, clerics, and parents of top politicians, died.  Ganduje did not help his case when reports… Read More

The arrest of a 70-year-old man and two others for “insulting” President Muhammadu Buhari and governor of Katsina State is unconstitutional and therefore condemnable. The point has to be made that defamation (whether civil or criminal) is private or personal in nature and public officers or government agencies are barred by law from suing for defamation.  In the case of… Read More

“We view this wicked act as not just man’s inhumanity to fellow man, but a very serious threat to our noble profession and womanhood” – Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ), Akwa Ibom State Council, condemning the arrest and detention of Mary Ekere, a female journalist with The Post by the state government recently. That Nigeria is richly blessed when it comes… Read More

Mallam Abba Kyari, former Chief-of-Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, died few weeks ago in a Lagos hospital of Coronavirus. He was hurriedly buried without pomp according to the Islamic rite of passage to the great beyond. Now, tributes are still pouring out in honour of the departed man of power. Friends, relatives, admirers and acquaintances of the fallen CoS are… Read More

Once again I am challenging, the founder of Omega Ministries, Apostle Suleman, to heal a coronavirus patient and get a sum of money, this time a higher amount-five thousand US dollars. I am throwing the challenge one more time because Suleman has in his response refused to categorically accept or decline the offer. Suleman seemed to imply that the amount,… Read More

Some people say Aba kyari was Mamman Daura’s foster child. Others say he was his boy while others that he was just his man. It does not really matter which was which and which was not, especially now that Abba is dead. Abba’s death from COVID-19 excited a lot of comments across the nation all because of the very important position… Read More

Two pieces of literary works – Williams Stevenson’s thriller, Ninety Minutes at Entebbe and the film, The Last King of Scotland (2006) – plot the graph of the gradual emergence of despots. They were both x-rays of Ugandan despot, Idi Amin Dada of Uganda. Stevenson’s was an account of the June 27, 1976 hijack of an Air France Flight 139, hijacked by terrorists and flown… Read More

The class of 2020 refers to those who are alive and well regardless of age, class, race or creed to savor infection and the fear associated with Covid-19, the “apocalypse” virus. The human family has been humbled by the ravaging Coronavirus pandemic as many believe it will destroy the world. I am a grateful student of life who took the… Read More

Our saving knight in shining armour rides in magisterially, talks about the orders he has issued, tells lots of lies, consoles himself, talks about the things important to him leaving out every other, and rides back to wherever he came from. No questions asked, none answered. After all, he’s doing us such a favour. Four weeks ago, Chikwe Ihekweazu, Nigeria… Read More