France can help Africa overcome its challenges – Buhari

By AUSTIN OWOICHO, Abuja President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the partnership between the African continent and France has yielded fruits in so many positive ways but that France can do more to help Africa overcome its challenges. According to a statement signed by the Special Adviser to President Media &Publicity, Femi Adesina, Buhari expressed…

Boko Haram: Abuja IDPs and the longing to return home

By Nasiru Suleiman Across the country, particularly,  the northern parts of Nigeria, the over two million persons scattered in various camps called the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps is the sad testimony of the dastardly act of the dreaded Boko Haram Insurgents. The present of these displaced persons confirmed the assertion that the Boko Haram…

OPINION BY FEMI FANI-KAYODE: Southern Kaduna and Nigeria’s deadly monsters (Part 2)

    In his book titled “Concerning the Government of Our Country and Neighboring Countries in the Sudan”, Nigeria’s first Mahdi, Sheik Usman Dan Fodio, who is the father of the Fulani Caliphate and leader of the 1804 jihad that overwhelmed and conquered what is now known as northern Nigeria wrote: “The government of a country is…