Garbadeen Muhammad on January 17th, 2010

Ideally, Malam Umaru Musa Yar’adua should have turned down former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s invitation to contest the 2007 presidential election.. Umaru knew, more than even his doctors that he was too sick to take up the most challenging job in the country. The decent thing to have done was for him to have locked himself […]

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Garbadeen Muhammad on January 3rd, 2010

Why is Nigeria and most of the world so unusually shocked and outraged that Faruk is a Nigerian citizen, from Katsina state in the North Western part of the country? The obvious answer, I suppose, is because the unusual always excites. But the deeper meaning of why the world reacts with such disbelief has greater […]

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