Nigeria: A rear-view mirror – Yakubu Mohammed
It is advisable, even if for historically nostalgic value, to take a look at the past; once in a while even as an annual academic exercise to celebrate the gains m...
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Gambari: Buhari’s Chief of Staff: Matters arising – Yakubu Mohammed
Apparently, the issues thrown up by the death of Malam Abba Kyari, President Muhammadu Buhari’s chief of staff; would linger on in the public domain for a long time yet. ...
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COVID-19: Pains and gains of a pandemic – Yakubu Mohammed
Even with the current COVID-19 crisis; every bad situation, every adversity, if you take the immortal William Shakespeare’s words for it, has...
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Ramadan and the god of Corona – Yakubu Mohammed
Ramadan is here… On this page, two weeks ago, I likened the coronavirus, aka Covid-19 to a jealous, vicious and unappeasa...
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Coronavirus: Prophecies that failed – Yakubu Mohammed
Despite the hysteria, the frenzy and the phobia this Coronavirus has continued to generate; we can still safely reach one conclusion: this current pandemic...
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Coronavirus: China takes on the world – Yakubu Mohammed
The only thing that can effectively compete with the Coronavirus or Covid-19 in terms of speed and exponential spread; round the world is the accompanying c...
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Sanusi: A date with destiny – Yakubu Mohammed
Our worst fears have come to pass. On Wednesday March 9, in the year 2020, the Kano State Government sacked the embattled Emir of Kano; Muhammadu Sanusi II. Meanin...
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Almajiri: Still hanging fire – Yakubu Mohammed
Old habits, they say, die hard. And those habits with taproots deep in culture and ignorance; like the Almajiri system of imparting the Quranic educa...
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Will it move the North? – Yakubu Mohammed
Emir of Kano, His Royal Majesty Muhammadu Sanusi 11; cannot be said to be the first Northerner to ex-ray the problems of the North. But speaking from his peacock throne o...
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Buhari and his homily for peace – Yakubu Mohammed
In the wake of the killing late last week of 30 farmers by bandits in Dankar and Tsauwa villages; in Batsari Local Government Area of Kastina State; Preside...
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