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Op-Ed Editor 10 years

@Alkayy: This is why Nigerian girls are still in trouble (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir It is no longer news that approximately 10.5 million kids are out of school in Nigeria, in proper context 1 out of 7 school children are out…

Op-Ed Editor 10 years

@Alkayy: The warden, the steward and the taxi driver (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir If Nigeria had a credible and consistent poll in the form of the Gallup poll, the measurement index will have shown that President Jonathan's popularity spiked momentarily…

Op-Ed Editor 10 years

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Boko Haram, Stephen Davis and the strange tales from Perth (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir The most apt metaphor of the recent actions of Stephen Davis has to be John Le Carre’s book The Tailor of Panama and the iconic character of…

Op-Ed Editor 10 years

Alkasim Abdulkadir: The march to Gwoza, the road to Mogadishu (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir TY Danjuma does not mince words, for he has no reason too, as a retired General who has fought in the trenches for the soul of Nigeria,…

Op-Ed Editor 10 years

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Ebola in a season of uncertainty (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir Sitting in the train cabin last week in Netherlands, the Dutch man who sat across from me looked eager to start a conversation, he got a chance…

Op-Ed Editor 10 years

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Boko Haram and the abysmal rise of the likes of Reem Riyashi (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim AbdulkadirIn conclusion, as narrated by Abu Huraira, Prophet Muhammad PBUH observed that. He who killed himself with steel (weapon) would be the eternal denizen of the fire of…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Politics is bleeding into governance (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir So for example, if you request a thorough investigation and call for punitive measures against the NIS exams were several people died, you are most likely to…

Opinion: Now that Alkasim has become a proper ‘Rankadade’

by Wole Olabanji I am however confident that Alkay’s appointment is no accident at all. I have known him for upwards of 14 years and have often saluted him Ranka…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Revisiting the Army BRT debacle (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir In all of this, it is doubly hard to believe the version of the Army in spite of its purported claims, this is so because they army…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Between our hypocrisy and their Hippocratic Oath (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir ...as citizens we also deserve the right to be treated according to the Hippocratic Oath that doctors have sworn too. The rise of medical negligence has caused…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Yan Cirani – Beasts of no nation (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir Yan cirani, the colloquial name for migratory workers in Hausa is a known class in Northern Nigeria. Some have even logged in generations in some communities that their…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Jos – Rising from the vortex of twin blasts (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir In all forms of the journalism I practice, trauma reporting is one of the most difficult as it is nearly impossible for the reporter to tear himself away…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: NERC’s tariff regimes in a season of reforms (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir Nigeria can no longer afford not to have an efficient electricity market that meets the needs of all sectors of the economy. This is why the Federal…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Chibok – Nigerian women, from fault lines to front lines (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir In the end, thousands of these women all over Nigeria by their actions have re-awakened a need to halt our slide into dehumanising vortex. Beneath the rallying…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: MEND, a terrorist organization or violent agitators? (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir ....President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan made a statement, which I personally believe has come to be the biggest faux pa of his administration. In his address at a colloquium…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: An open letter to Vice Admiral Murtala Nyako (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir ....as someone who fought for the oneness of this country, as a sub-lieutenant in 1965 and even commanded the Nigerian Navy’s Patrol craft, a landing craft and the…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: The inhuman operation of baby factories (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir ....the girls either by being abducted, or cajoled there by deceitful means are impregnated by a male accomplice of the matron or the owner of the house. Some…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Molluma – Elegy to a selfless friend (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir She was always giving her possessions away, even the ones that could be sold. She might not have been wealthy in the material sense of the word,…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Benue – Sewing the seams on these pockets of violence (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir In a nation already struggling to feed itself and reduce dependency on food imports, the crisis faced by farmers in Benue State is in no way a good…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: And citizen Onigbo sentenced himself to death (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Andulkadir These days the government is trying to reduce poverty by initiatives like YouWin, one of the most pragmatic ventures initiated by the government to provide jobs, no…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: What Jonathan must do in this stormy season of letters (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir One argument that continues to run through the conversation is space on the moral authority of Obasanjo to write President Jonathan such a letter, for many people it…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Will the real Nigerian Mandela, please stand up? (YNaija Frontpage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir Chief amongst them has been that of his receiving the Nobel Prize alongside his jailer De Klerk, of which the militant members led by his ex-wife Winnie…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Comrade Oshiomole – From a maddening moment to a tea soiree (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir The video clip that shocked Nigerians beyond measure showed Comrade Oshiomole standing in all majesty while a citizen groveled at his feet like the plebian that she was.…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: PDP – The downsizing of a behemoth (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir This is the biggest blow the PDP has suffered in its more than a decade of being in power. According to the APC the two parties emerged to rescue democracy.…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Golden Eaglets test is a big lesson for Nigeria, if only… (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir Some of the phrases on the lips of even the most pessimistic of us ranged from “God bless Nigeria”, “I am proud to be a Nigerian” and “We…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Apathy and death in a time of Cholera (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir We wait for government to come and cover festering water holes of maggots and mosquitoes near our homes, our poverty mentality has dulled our senses on the need…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: After trade and railway, China to export culture to Nigeria (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir China he said will continue to make efforts to balance bilateral trade and train talents for Nigeria; he also called on Nigeria to create favourable conditions and a…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: Citadels of learning, Boko Haram’s new slaughter fields (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir The insurgency in Nigeria’s North Eastern corner has once more thrown up the precarious balance between life and death, these days’ scores of people are killed on…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: For Independence Day, let’s visit a real centenary town, Zungeru (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir The cache of history in the ambit of Zungeru town is enormous, ironically it has become one of those town cut off from the centre. Our tour…

Alkasim Abdulkadir: #OurNASS – Who will pay the hardship allowance of 112 million poor Nigerians? (Y! FrontPage)

by Alkasim Abdulkadir The protest is not just about the National Assembly it is a metaphor for the sky rocketing cost of governance in Nigeria in the midst of such…