Author: Garba Shehu

Borno State had been without power for more than a month because the army says it is unsafe for engineers to venture out to carry out the repairs

There are many perpetrators to the freedom and security of the press in Nigeria

A government agency with a track record of partisan and unjust decisions cannot be trusted to manage the burst of new licences for TV and radio stations coming on the heels of digitalization

This country is not the only place where people can be happy about misfortune striking others

At a recent workshop in Kaduna, the group brought together an array of active and not-so-active security personnel, journalists, academics, politicians and businessmen to brainstorm on the issue of: “Security and Human Rights in Northern Nigeria”

All of this is happening because we have a government that is insensitive

I am concerned, as are many citizens, that there is no awareness creation or mobilization at all going on to sensitize the citizens about this important upcoming event

Governor Lamido Sanusi will not have a hard fall and by God’s mercy, his story will have a happy ending. It will have a happy ending because the latest quarrels he has picked against the increasingly unpopular administration are the peoples’ battles

At the rate he is going, especially with the recent addition of the defence portfolio to his cap, Maku may run the Ijaw leaders out of business and succeed in having all to himself, the heart of the President. That prospect alone should worry those who love the Minister

Since the release of his letter to the President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, former President Olusegun Obasanjo has come under intense scrutiny relating to his motives, rather than the message and this is for a good reason.

In a booming aviation industry that needs to be matched by a surge of infrastructure projects to meet demands, a thinking that is exceptional and unexpected is required to generate money for expansion works so that the service meets demand

There are several reasons why the problem in the PDP has no easy solution. One of this is the President’s immediate circle of officials and advisers

The Almajiri system was imported into northern Nigeria from Northern Africa. Almajiri is itself from the Arabic word Almahajir, meaning immigrant. The Hausa use the word to refer to both a student and a beggar

To blame “unseen hands” for influencing newspaper reports calling for the completion and utilization of the Kano airport is nothing short of blackmail

If the climate of opinion against the President in the mainstream media is bad, it is worse in the new media where Dr. Jonathan has effectively been chased out of the social media. He hardly tweets, if at all he does that these days

This country will not be ridding itself of the wild polio virus unless the law makes our change-resistant population to comply with the administration of vaccines, even involuntarily

But this too goes for the opposition politicians, who have not equally shown the preparedness to accept defeat as they accept victory

How did otherwise titanic men such as Professor Ango Abdullahi, former Vice Chancellor of Ahmadu Bello University, find themselves in the gutter engaging in a fight with an Alhaji Dokubo? I thought Ango’s group, and him particular, a leader of the late Shehu Yar’Adua group, scholar and gentleman were above this kind of fray

Kuku, who spoke at an interactive session with very Senior State Department officials, led by the Deputy Assistant Secretary (Bureau of African Affairs), Ambassador Donald Teibeltaum, said that it is “only Jonathan Presidency that can guarantee continued peace and energy security in the Niger Delta.”

From experience over these few years we have dealt with terrorism, as well as lessons from other lands, it is better to kill the motivation for terrorism than kill the terrorist. Extra-judicial killings only lead to more terrorist breeding