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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…
Rice farmers in Jigawa State says the invasion of their farms by quelea birds has been a major challenge threatening rice production in the State. This
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Banditry, kidnapping and labelling herders By Mon Feb 22 2021 Immediately after my piece, Go After Criminals, Don’t Label Herders, appeared in Daily Trust of 25/2/21, I had many reactions from a number of readers prominent among whom was Mohammed Abba Gana, the former FCT Minister, who normally keeps a very close eye on this page. He told me that he had prepared a piece on the subject and he sent me a copy thereafter. I found a lot of wisdom in the write-up and decided to pick excerpts to share with the readers: “As the population of the world continues to increase every year in most coun...
Fixing the Fulani Brand, By Wole Olaoye If I was Fulani, I would have denounced those violent nomads for what they were. I would have screamed, “Not in my name!" ADVERTISEMENT If and when Nigeria navigates its way away from the avoidable precipice of inter-ethnic war and hate mongering — and the Fulani brand is thereby positively re-invented, it will be thanks to people like Abdullahi Ganduje and Abba Gana who played the role of pathfinding statesmen in the heat of blame-shifting… I will begin by clearing some cobwebs. The Fulani who many southern Nigerians knew and affectionately inter...