I NEVER thought I could attend the Eid prayer held on 10th April, a day after I clocked the definitive…
Browsing: Hassan Gimba’s Column
THE chickens, the saying goes, always come home to roost. But some people would prefer to be Shakespearean by quoting…
TWO weeks ago, in my article entitled “Tinubu, beware the gathering dark clouds (2)”, I touched on our unity and…
This article is a repeat as it was first published on November 1, 2020. PALLIATIVE – This ten-letter word has…
LAST week, we read how the signs are not looking good for a nation like ours that wants to be…
I DO not want to believe that in a country of close to 250 million people, I am the only…
THESE days, the words dominating the air are “hunger” and “protest”. And that, we are told, is because of two…
(Readers’ Reactions) SALAAMU alaykum. I saw your tribute to late Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, may Allah (SWT) grant him mercies…
ADAMU Maina Waziri is one politician most people misunderstand. He is one man who does not suffer fools and, unlike…
“He had a good heart, see where he died.” “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”…
THE promotion of peaceful and inclusive societies is the focus of goal number 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).…
NIGERIA is a country of one week, one issue; but insecurity, spreading over the nation like a cancer in a…
AS reporters and analysts, we must inform, based on trends, and where possible, raise the alarm, hoping that those in…
ON MONDAY, January 8, I lost my mother. She died at the age of 85. Despite the age being ripe,…
LAST week, we got a dose of what investigative journalism ought to be. Umar Audu, a promising young journalist, proved…
AN IGBO adage says that when an anomaly persists for one year, it becomes the norm. So slowly, steadily but…
RIVERS, a state so rich because God blessed it with an abundance of crude oil and gas, is named after…
IN the first part of this write-up, we saw how in 1983, the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), afraid of…
IS there something with the presidential system of democracy we have twice adopted for ourselves that necessitates involving the courts…
“A corrupt judge is more harmful to the society than a man who runs amok with a dagger in a…