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By Rose Moses The media fondly call him a popular Islamic cleric, though, not many Nigerians have heard of him. Not until recently, that is. To those who know Sheikh Ahmad Abubakar Gumi, he is a friend of the bandits. He goes about…

By Rose MOSES Revisionism and gerontocracy are not parallel lines. It can happen to any country. Every once in a while, democracies elect senior citizens as presidents. What will be hard to explain to the generation next is that we have…

 Rose MOSES Revisionism and gerontocracy are not parallel lines. It can happen to any country. Every once in a while, democracies elect senior citizens as presidents. What will be hard to explain to the generation next is that we have…

By ROSE MOSES For pulling down a presidential tweet widely seen as a threat of violence against Nigeria's Southeast…Ok...let’s put it this way. For making the Nigerian president ‘angry’, about 200 million Nigerians are to be denied the…

Said to have been saddened by the abduction of students of Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe, Zamfara State, in February this year, President Muhammadu Buhari told Nigerians that this particular abduction would be the last. On…

.  Election Transparency Group (ETG) has called for the arrest and prosecution of the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen Godswill Akpabio, over his involvement in falsification of results of the Akwa Ibom North West senatorial election…

By Rose Moses The Nigerian story today may well pass for the modern-day version of the Hebrew jeremiad. Almost every news item from here points to that fact.  There is wailing and gnashing of teeth almost everywhere you turn to in the…

To the Nigerian youth, the present Federal Government can never be able to convince ordinary folks that it isn’t highly insincere, never to be held by its word, at least most of the time…and never to be trusted.  If you still wish to ask…

By Rose Moses On October 22, 2020--the year of Covid-19 and good governance protests--the Nigerian speaking space gained additional vocab. “Speechless speech” enriched our blossoming political lexicon two clear days after the alleged…

By Rose Moses Nigerian youths are angry, very angry. And understandably so! It is with mixed feelings--isn't it a sense of pride?--that in the past one week plus many have watched these people hitherto labelled as “lazy”, albeit…