Lifestyle
A short story 8-8-8: The journey to Prayer City
In the Mountain of fire and Miracles Ministry, for as long as I can remember (which isn’t too long), there is an annual ...
Lifestyle
Helpers of the poor Civil society and all the missed points
Prof. BALA DOGO raises questions on how to tell the chaff from the grain among civil society organizations purportedly set up to help ...
News
Protest against President Obama in South Africa is justified
The Obama allure in Africa appears to have faded, writes Femi Falana. When President Barrack Obama visited Ghana for a few hours in 2009, ...
Lifestyle
Why Somali not Ghana came to Nigeria
Ever since Somalia came to Nigeria, bombs and screaming guns have made us to constantly shudder. We live in fear. And we seek ...
Lifestyle
Nigeria has to review itself
Director General of the National Office of Technology Acquisition and Promotion, Dr. Umar Bindir, is canvassing for an ICT corridor as a first ...
News
Why the West is wrong about Africa
Editor’s note: Ambassador Johnnie Carson is special advisor to the president of the U.S. Institute of Peace. He was assistant secretary of state ...
Business
Finding money and willpower for STI
Africa’s STI landscape is hampered by absence of political willpower and funding. By SEGUN ORUAME At about this time last year in Nairobi, ...
Lifestyle
Northern elites and northern economic backwardness
By Professor Moses Ebe Ochonu The Lugardian creation that materialized as Northern Nigeria is not a product of mythmaking but its elites have constructed elaborate ...
Editorial
Nigeria and the political economy of backwardness
In the political economy of backwardness (1), I focused on the analysis of Islam in Northern Nigeria and how compared to Malaysia, Islam ...
Editorial
Northern Nigerian Elites and National Power Struggle in Nigeria
In the July 17th edition of “Sun: Voice of the Nation” newspaper in Nigeria, a news item reported by Noah Ebije from Kaduna was published, ...
Lifestyle
Aminu Kano, political change, and Northern Nigeria
By Attahiru Bala Usman Three decades ago, 33 years precisely, in 1979, Mallam Aminu Kano led the Peoples Redemption Party – PRP ...
Lifestyle
One entity; conflicting views
By Joe Anuga, PhD The perspective articulated by Professor Samuel Zalanga in his response to Professor Ango Abdullahi’s views on the need for ...











