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The North East: Which Way Forward? By Hassan Gimba Being a speech delivered by Hassan Gimba, publisher of Neptune Prime online newspaper and magazine, chairman Northeast Publishers’ Forum, as the Guest Speaker at the 6th Annual Awards…

The Secrets of Intangible Wealth By Ronald Bailey We have been talking about the Rule of Law for some weeks now. Today, I give Ronald Bailey, an American libertarian science writer, who has written or edited several books on economics,…

Banditry and our quest for leadership By Hassan Gimba I wanted to continue with my treatise on the Rule of Law as our only panacea for survival when a clarion call by the governor of Katsina State, Alhaji Aminu Masari, caught my…

While I Congratulate the Och’Idoma By Onoja, Benedict Paul Congratulations to the newly elected Och’Idoma, His Royal Majesty, Dr. John Elaigwu Odogbo I have read through the profile of the Och’Idoma-elect and if you…

The Rule of Law, Nigeria’s only hope for survival (3) by Hassan Gimba Many patriots concerned with our rapid nose-diving in morals and abandonment of the rule of law believe that the British left too early. Some theorise that perhaps…

Rule of Law, Nigeria’s only hope of survival (1) By Hassan Gimba Our current situation of a glaring failure of the rule of law must disturb any Nigerian who has come of age. The average citizen today lives in fear. When you retire…

To Buni, a quintessential bridge-builder @ 54 By Hassan Gimba If it were a fairy tale, his story would have started with “once upon a time, in the not so sleepy village of Buni Gari, a child of destiny was born to the industrious…

Ndigbo and the Politics of Identity By Hassan Gimba Even though Anambra has been in the kitty of the All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) for a long time, the recently concluded gubernatorial election in which Professor Charles…

What six billion naira can do for my state By Hassan Gimba Yobe is a small agrarian state on the path to becoming great. All those who governed it ensured this. All the past governors, one way or the other, have taken the state beyond…

Of Wachakal Airport, Wastage and the Bandits In Government By Hassan Gimba When the news hit the airwaves that the federal government had budgeted N6.3 billion to build an airport at Wachakal, in Yobe State, 130 kilometres…