By M. M. Alhaji To simplify, maternal mortality is death caused directly or indirectly by pregnancy or its management within 42 days after the termination of the pregnancy, and infant…

The publication of the names of members of the APC Presidential Inauguration Committee last week did not go without getting its own fair share of mischief and controversy. Hadiza Bala…

Your Excellency Sir! Let me start by congratulating you for becoming the first Kano deputy governor to succeed his boss, the first elected Kano governor with a genuine PhD and…

A new document has detailed a plot by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to influence the electorate, and elaborately rig Saturday’s Governorship and State House of Assembly elections in Kaduna…

I have in the past weeks devoted my time to campaigning for a peaceful election in Kaduna State. That did not give me the space to gauge sentiment against parties…

The paper by the former Governor of the Central Bank Prof. Charles Soludo sparked a meaningful debate on the programs of our contenders for the office of the President of the…

In a ruling Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP) rally recently in Kano, the Nigerian Vice President, Namadi Sambo bragged of being a better Muslim because unlike his political opponents, his name…

When The United States’ senator and former presidential candidate, John McCain threw aside all diplomatic norms and called the current Nigerian leadership “a practically non-existent government”, he might have either…

iawaziri@gmail.com, 9th Jan. 2015 It was a soft breakfast. Precisely oats and pepper soup. Aljazeera was discussing Charlie Hebdo, the unfortunate killings. My audio player was re-echoing again and again,…

Jan 7, 2015 Sorry Sir, I used to dislike you. My emotions towards you were borne purely out of economic reasons. And if you take the pain to understand me,…