Garba Shehu
Politics, especially as it affect the North.
Four Plausible Reasons for Recent War Gains, By Garba Shehu
Recent successes by the Nigerian Military against the raging insurgency in the North-East seem to inspire confidence that the nation...
Read moreDetailsThe South-South Dream and A Nation’s Dilemma, By Garba Shehu
The story of the National Conference is like the parable of the sick fish when it tried to swallow a...
Read moreDetails#SackEbolaNotDoctors, By Garba Shehu
Last week’s sack of 16,000 Resident Doctors by the Federal Government is careless, unscrupulous and clearly an indefensible action. It...
Read moreDetailsIf not the army, who then? By Garba Shehu
The terror groups in the North-East who now have a territory of their own on the Nigerian soil, as...
Read moreDetailsHow More Wasteful Can the Police Force Be? By Garba Shehu
Before the advent of modern bureaucracies, European States operated a spoils system, by which every administration brings its civil servants...
Read moreDetailsPress Freedom and Security, By Garba Shehu
Dele Giwa. Bagauda Kaltho. Enenche Akogwu. Zakariya Isa. Ikechukwu Udendu. Nansok Sallah. Bayo Ohu. These are the names of just...
Read moreDetailsNBC’S Worrisome Fatwas, By Garba Shehu
One of the greatest achievements of the military in Nigeria, the liberalization of the airwaves through the issuance of licenses...
Read moreDetailsThe Greed that Nourishes the Polio Tragedy, By Garba Shehu
Hearing the reports of massive inflow of foreign assistance – millions of US Dollars, plane-loads of medicines, building materials, blankets...
Read moreDetailsAs The North Grabs Its Fate with Both Hands, By Garba Shehu
A popular local proverb says it takes two hands to clap and only one to slap.
Read moreDetailsEmir Sanusi’s Curious Deal, And Perils He Must Avoid, By Garba Shehu
It is welcome that the new Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi 11, as he prefers to be called ( he...
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