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Distinguished Senator Cow and his Human Rights
As the sitting president in 2016, General Muhammadu Buhari told the Emir of Katsina that “It would be foolhardy for someone to just say...
The King Has No Friends
Marcus Brutus, the villain of William Shakespear’s epic drama, Julius Caesar, poetically defines the emergence of dictators thus:
...But ‘tis a common proof,
That lowliness is...
One Kano, Two Emirs
There can be only one Oba (king) in a palace. That was how our forebears arranged our traditional settings. The saying in Yoruba that...
My Pension, Your Pension in the Hands of ‘Lagos’
Lagos does not have restraints when it comes to spending money. His first name is Nínál’owó (Money is meant to be spent). His middle...
Northern Nigeria’s Paedophilic Mass Weddings
"Could you ‘please, possibly, perhaps’, send me to Kano?" I told my editor last Wednesday.
“You will meet me there” was his response.
I laughed.
A moment...
