After nearly a year of official denials, the icy relationship  between the Zamfara state government and the former    governor of the state, Senator Ahmed Sani, Yariman Bakura moved from the realm of speculation to actuality. The hide and seek is no longer Tom and Jerry, but Cats and Mouse. For real.
Until now the government has always […]

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admin on August 17th, 2008

Last week, a venomous letter, written in response to an    earlier article that appeared on this page, was published    here. Because the letter was written in total disregard for a minimum standard of ethics and decency, it enraged, understandably, a lot of people who read it; but then it also provided quite a few readers […]

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Garbadeen Muhammad on August 10th, 2008

It is poverty ridden and wretched. I have been to the North and it was a very depressing experience. The finest capital in the north is not even up to my village. Take a trip to East and you will understand the amount of squalor the Northerners are living in. A village in the east […]

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Garbadeen Muhammad on August 3rd, 2008

Give him half the chance and he would try to convince you that whatever your troubles, he worries about them more than you do. At every opportunity, Professor Charles Soludo, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) wastes no time in telling the world how deeply concerned he is obout the debilitating problem of […]

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