“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them…
Browsing: Hassan Gimba’s Column
“So many people are hanging on by the thinnest of threads. Treat people with kindness, you could be that thread.”…
TODAY marks the end of the two-term tenure of a man who came with tremendous goodwill, the kind never before…
IN the system of governance we practise, there are three arms – the Legislature, Executive and Judiciary. The Legislature is…
THIS writing was first published on 6 July 2020. With changes of leadership soon at the federal and state levels,…
MY column of last week with the title “Like Mamu, like Abdulsalami and the billion naira firefighter” drew the attention…
IN a move normally seen in Hollywood spy thrillers, Tukur Mamu, publisher of Kaduna-based Desert Herald and an aide to…
“We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are…
THIS is a repeat as it was first published two years ago, precisely on 19/04/2021. Has anything changed? The reader…
MAIDUGURI, the capital and the largest city of Borno State, was founded in 1907 as a military outpost by the…
THIS is not what I had intended to discuss this week, but circumstances have given it priority. Yobe is a…
ONE of the factors that determined the just concluded elections in Nigeria is religion. Oh, agreed, in our politics, religion…
THIS general advice to every elected Governor, was first published on May 27, 2019. I feel the need to republish…
MAI Mala Buni, the governor of Yobe State, is one of the most promising visionary nationalists, bridge-builders and democrats we…
AS you read this, the nation is awaiting the results of the presidential election held two days ago – some…
The death of a thousand good men is not as tragic as having an unfit man in a position of…
THERE is something about Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Jagaba of Borgu and the presidential candidate of the All Peoples Congress…
PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s followers, therefore, created in him an image of an ascetic, beyond reproach, and so canonised him as…
MANY governors who finish their two terms in Nigeria retire into the red chamber and become ‘distinguished Senators’. But not…
PERHAPS in the future, politicians, political analysts, strategists, scientists and consultants may want to look at one or two things…