Abba: When Devotion Meets Intellectualism
BY SIMON REEF MUSA On 3rd March, 1969, a child that would be christened Williams Kaura was born to the family of Mr. Abba Katung who was one…
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Insecurity: When Not To Negotiate With Bandits
BY SIMON REEF MUSA For those who think negotiating with bandits is capable of opening a new window of resolving recurring and perturbing trails of banditry hounding our nation, yesterday…
Insecurity: Community Policing To The Rescue
BY SIMON REEF MUSA In the past weeks, the need for community policing has been reiterated and stressed upon as an effective strategy in ending the rising spates of insecurity…
Media, Ethnic Profiling And Kadaria
BY SIMON REEF MUSA There is no greater falsehood than the perception that the assumed profiling of the Fulani ethnic group is tied to media reports. A Nigerian journalist, Kadaria…
Stop Criminalising The Dead In Hospitals
BY SIMON REEF MUSA For a nation that is incapable of making life meaningful for most of its citizens, such a country can ill afford the luxury of venerating its…
Akeredolu’s Quit Order And Playing The Ostrich
BY SIMON REEF MUSA The 7-day ultimatum issued on criminal herdsmen on January 18, 2021 by Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State to either vacate forest reserves in the state…
Kukah’s Message And Snare of Mischief Makers
BY SIMON REEF MUSA In a nation where praise singers hold the megaphone, cheerleaders in the corridor of power are always engaged in the worship of leadership for survival. Therefore,…
Rot On Abuja-Kaduna Train Route
BY SIMON REEF MUSA The time was 4:45pm on Wednesday September 23, 2020. I was not going to risk the chances of missing the last train ride to Abuja. The…
Open Letter To Bishop Kukah @68
BY SIMON REEF MUSA My Lord Bishop, I do not really know whether it was my initial intention to write a secret or an open letter on the occasion of…
This Strange Disease Called Nigerian Democracy
BY SIMON REEF MUSA The dawn of democracy on May 29, 1999 brought with it refreshing hope for the citizenry that had groped in darkness under 15 years of unbroken…