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Alhaji Umaru Dembo is a journalist, publisher, businessman and politician. He contested more than once for the governorship of Kaduna State. He became the Minister of State for Petroleum in the government of General Sani Abacha in 1997. Let’s start with your early life in Zaria. I was born in Ikara, which was under…
I pity the two giants for having years to spend fighting before the next round of elections.
Recollections of a day of gloom General Murtala Mohammed Mon Feb 15 2021 It is now 45 years ago when Nigeria’s much-beloved Head of State, General Murtala Mohammed was assassinated. Readers of some age group would have their own recollections of that day when gloom pervaded the entire length and breadth of the country. On 13th February 1976, when the General was ambushed on the way to the office in Lagos and killed, I was halfway into my final year in the School of Business, Kongo campus, ABU, Zaria. We were accustomed to coups having lived through three in the preceding 10 years. The two c...