Dogged and Kindhearted Hassan Gimba: Celebrating Four Decades of Bosom Friendship Our friendship, forged in the crucible of the School of Basic Studies of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, was a unique bond that transcended the typical student camaraderie. We were both teenagers and graduates of our secondary schools, where we emerged as local champions…
Readers’ Comments on Dangote’s Refinery and Food Security A weekly article has always been a tasking assignment in the face of several contending issues demanding time and attention. Academic activities- teaching, research and knowledge dissemination, community services – consultancy, mentorship, etc- are time-consuming and attention-seeking events. So, the best way to sustain weekly articles is…
Re: Hardship Protest – Let’s Avoid Doom’s Day- FEED BACK The period from 1st to 10th August was the most challenging time for our nascent democracy and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his cabinet members. It was when Nigerians vented their anger, frustration, and dismay to political officeholders with grave consequences. Some people lost their…
Re: GMO in Nigeria – How Safe is TELA Maize? Today, I am publishing readers’ comments on the GMO article, which undoubtedly generated multiple reactions and questions. Some questions were privately posed, and I had to respond through social media handles. GMOs are human innovations and products of science and technology. Knowledge is very vast,…
Hardship Protest: Let’s Avoid Doom’s Day Pressure is mounting, the time is ticking, and the atmosphere is pregnant with flammable air waiting for a minute spark to explode, marking the arrival of Doom’s Day. The inferno of Doom’s Day may consume all of us and our belongings. In the inferno, there would be no king…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
