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Dangote Refinery: Pride to the Nation and Beacon of Hope A business mogul the size of Aliko Dangote is assumed to say less outside his business engagements. Yet, as a guest speaker at the 38th ABU convocation lecture on Friday, January 29, 2016, he held an unusual audience: the elites, industrialists, technocrats, academia, and teeming youths, spellbound to breath-taking silence, …

Re: Ahmad Babba Kaita- Former Senator with a Difference   My article on the above subject attracted many reactions, most notably the commendations of former Senator Ahmad Babba Kaita. Very few of the readers’ comments accused me of playing partisan politics and promoting the Senator above other politicians in Katsina state. The accusers failed to realize that commending well-deserved personalities, …

GMO in Nigeria: How Safe is TELA Maize? Genetically Modified Organism is a byproduct of biotechnology. In medicine, biotechnology existed many centuries ago as an innovation. Hitherto, biotechnology was a non-issue or, like any other technological breakthrough, until it widened its scope to include the latest globally controversial product: a genetically modified organism, GMO, or transgenic organism. This recent status …

Banditry and Prof Saidu’s Dastardly Assassination: One Death, too Many Unknowingly and knowingly, I was in a callous bandits’ den last September 2023. I was on a team inspecting a ten-hectare maize-cowpea farm in the Yakawada-Sabuwa axis, notorious for bandit dastardly activities. Hitherto, I would not have allowed my worst enemy to do so if I had known I would …

Re: Inaccessible Democratic Dividends and Sins of State Governors Still, on the considerable investment to become a governor, I have to quote the words of Dr. Abba Sayyadi Ruma of blessed memory, who said, “You need a minimum of N2 billion for the primary election and another N2 billion for the general campaign. Those giving you financial support attach a …

Ahmad Babba Kaita: Former Senator with a Difference At the height of the 2015 political campaign, Katsina State APC governorship candidate Masari decided to spend a night in each of the 34 local government headquarters as a strategy to interact with the local people and indicate he was one of their kith and kin. Many of us blindly following the …

Emergency on Food Security: Policy Dereliction, Consequences and Possible Solutions President Bola Ahmed Tinubu (BAT) declared a state of emergency on food security on July 14, 2023, to cushion the effects of the fuel subsidy removal and address the precarious food shortages and hunger that have defied all efforts and continued ravaging the country with reckless abandon. BAT is the …

Inaccessible Democratic Dividends: Unwieldy Power and Sins of State Governors Three months before the demise of Dr Abba Sayyadi Ruma of blessed memory, the former Minister of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Water Resources invited me to his Kaduna residence and sighted his digital empire, which he was about to deploy to achieve his lofty dream of revolutionizing Nigerian …

FEED BACK This article touches the red button, which is the sensitive part of many people. As an outcome of the training on retirement, I wrote the article to reinforce my acquired knowledge of the subject. It was one of the longest-standing articles because of its technicalities. I wrote it, then reviewed it and paraphrased it to make it simpler …

 Dan-Ibro, the famous Hausa film actor of blessed memory, acted as manager of NEPA of a community. Unknowingly, he instructed one of his subordinates to cut off the cable supplying electricity to a family house of a lady he was courting because they failed to settle their monthly bill. When the lady exited the house seductively, Dan-Ibro immediately withdrew his …