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A Northerner’s Abiola story

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Garba Shehu

 

 

As the Head of the Features desk at the Triumph Newspapers in Kano, I had an Abiola fan who reported to me as Column writer and producer of weekly religious news pages. The late Shehu Garba (a namesake) was full of fascination for the late M.K.O. Abiola. Shehu and some other Muslim activists had engaged the Islamic old order in the North in a fight, trying to secure a befitting place for the late philanthropist in the Muslim religious establishment in Nigeria.

 

Bible: “Do not judge, you will be judged”

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Musings by Garba Shehu

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According to the Indian sage, Mahatma Gandhi, "He is only an elder in whom reside truth and justice." And the ruling party is now reeling from the effects of its own hypocrisy.

 

The age of slave-driving, “democratically”

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We Nigerians are a great people. The problem   is, we are always denied the opportunity to show our greatness at home. When we get the opportunity, mostly abroad, Nigerians, be they academics, doctors or sportsmen and women, they cause miracles.

 

Pakistanisation of the North

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Musings by Garba Shehu

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Borno state and to some extent Bauchi state are quickly turning to be more dangerous conflict zones than the Niger Delta. With the spectre of Boko Haram looming large, the people in Borno and Bauchi states are literally living on their nerves; they have become captives of fear, sleeping with one eye closed, the other one opened and looking over their shoulders as they step out of their homes, business places or walk the streets.

 

Security or Scaremongering?

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The elections have been fought and won but the war seems to have just begun.

These days, you read headlines and smear stuff in the press and the Northern Muslims who largely didn’t vote for President Goodluck Jonathan are crying out that they are under attack. They are asking the question:

 
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