Cry not for the North – Yakubu Mohammed
Apparently, the North deserves pity. But is it worth crying for? Whichever angle you want to look at it, and through whichever prism you want to look...
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Oba of peace and tranquillity – Yakubu Mohammed
The Oba of Benin is truly a monarch after my heart. Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II will be four years on the throne of his an...
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AMCON and its VIP debtors again – Yakubu Mohammed
I pity this debt collector. At his wit’s end, this debt chaser, Ahmed Lawal Kuru, managing director of Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria; AMCON, took...
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INEC: A golden chance for Nigeria’s electoral umpire – Yakubu Mohammed
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has another good chance from September to November this year to improve on its past performance and write its name in...
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Something about this Dr. Stella – Yakubu Mohammed
Stella is not a Nigerian. She is from Cameroun. This was the first reaction I got on social media when the “satanic” video of this irrepressible medi...
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NDDC: It’s okay, it’s their meal ticket – Yakubu Mohammed
The current salacious tales of the alleged sleaze, scams and heinous criminal corruption coming out of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) probe b...
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Buhari: The verdict of history – Yakubu Mohammed
The seeds of the current travails of the war against corruption by President Muhammadu Buhari were sowed; perhaps inadvertently, from the inception of the administ...
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Pandemic of the new normal – Yakubu Mohammed
This pandemic is one that would significantly alter our way of living. “We sense that ‘normal’ isn’t coming back, that we are being born into a new normal: a n...
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DisCos tariffs hanging fire – Yakubu Mohammed
I don’t speak for Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo but on this occasion I wish to say with certainty that he; like many of us, cannot be happy with the 100 per cent increase...
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Nigeria: A stitch in time – Yakubu Mohammed
Ordinarily when the commander-in-chief gives a marching order to his security chiefs, you expect something drastic to happen. And this is what Nigeria is to expect...
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