Tag: Alkasim Abdulkadir

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Op-Ed EditorOctober 9, 2014

@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 ...

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Op-Ed EditorOctober 3, 2014

@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 ...

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Op-Ed EditorSeptember 4, 2014

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 ...

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Op-Ed EditorAugust 28, 2014

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 ...

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Op-Ed EditorAugust 21, 2014

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 ...

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Op-Ed EditorAugust 7, 2014

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

by Alkasim Abdulkadir In conclusion, as narrated by Abu Huraira, Prophet Muhammad PBUH observed that. He who killed himself with ...

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July 24, 2014

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 ...

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July 20, 2014

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 ...

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July 11, 2014

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 ...

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July 3, 2014

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 ...

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June 19, 2014

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 ...

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June 12, 2014

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 ...

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May 29, 2014

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 ...

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May 22, 2014

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 ...

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May 15, 2014

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 ...

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April 24, 2014

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 ...

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April 3, 2014

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 ...

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March 13, 2014

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 ...

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March 6, 2014

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 ...

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January 30, 2014

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 ...

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December 19, 2013

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 ...

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December 12, 2013

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, ...

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December 5, 2013

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 ...

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November 28, 2013

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 ...

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November 21, 2013

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 ...

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November 2, 2013

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, ...

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October 17, 2013

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 ...

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October 10, 2013

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 ...

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October 3, 2013

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 ...

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September 26, 2013

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 ...

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