When the former Kano state governor, Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi died in Kano on Sunday, April 4 after a bitter encounter with a gang of armed bandits on his way from Bauchi, the police swung, once again into action. Yusuf Ozi-Usman notes that police are not always in short supply of threats and promises to get to the root cause when prominent persons are involved, but have never successfully brought out the culprits in several cases of assassination, armed robbery attack and hired-killing perpetrated against some top Nigerians in the past. 

Editor, Sunday, Tawey Zakka previews the international conference on political stability and democratic imperatives in a dynamic international environment, which holds today in Abuja.

Salisu Ibrahim and Yusuf Ozi-Usman take a critical look at the floury of criticisms that had trailed last week’s visit of four Islamic clerics, including the Chief Imam of the National Mosque, to the ailing President Umaru Musa Yar'adua at the Presidential Villa, Abuja and a similar visit by Christian clerics on Monday, this week. Is it possible for us to believe  that Acting President Goodluck Jonathan has not seen the President? 

The sudden death on Sunday of second republic governor of  Kano state, a one- time minister of communications  and founding father of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Rimi has generated a lot of emotions from politicians, political parties and other notable Nigerians and democratic institutions.