As Jonathan’s Tsunami Devastates the Political Landscape – Salisu Suleiman
A tsunami is very high, large wave in the ocean that is usually caused by an earthquake under the sea. It can cause great destruction when it reaches land because[…]
Author: Salisu Suleiman
Unregulated Preachers, Unschooled Followers- Salisu Suleiman
For what it may be worth, Nigerians are very spiritual people. Nigerians of all religious inclinations wear our religions on our foreheads, pray at public functions, make a show of[…]
Social infrastructure vs. Stomach infrastructure – Salisu Suleiman
Shortly after former president Olusegun Obasanjo’s reelection in 2003 and the hurricane he unleashed to unseat all but one Alliance for Democracy (AD) governors, he dispatched Mukhtari Shagari, whom he’d[…]
The Genius of Jonathan – Salisu Suleiman
My piece titled, ‘2015: Why I will vote Jonathan’ elicited mixed responses. One reader, appalled by what he saw as my volte face on Jonathan, asked if I’d been ‘seen’.[…]
2015: Why I will vote Jonathan – Salisu Suleiman
The opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) last weekend concluded its national convention. That development – along with the fact that the ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has been in campaign[…]
A Season of Royal Deaths – Salisu Suleiman
On May 27, 2014, the Emir of Gombe, Alhaji Shehu Abubakar died in a London hospital after a brief illness. When his remains were returned home for burial, neighbouring emirs[…]
South East: Where are the leaders? – Salisu Suleiman
Given the propensity of rotational arrangements to throw up clueless and ill-prepared candidates and put them in positions they never dreamt of, let alone planned for, not many well-meaning Nigerians[…]
“Some guy named Goodluck Jonathan” – Salisu Suleiman
The setting was a Starbucks café in Silver Spring, Maryland, USA. The occasion was a small meeting of Africans. During a conversation with an Ethiopian lady, the talk changed to[…]
What was Jonathan Hiding? – Salisu Suleiman
When I landed at the Abuja airport on Wednesday, 7th of May on a flight from Kano, it was easy to sense that something was wrong. The ‘motor-park’ hustle and[…]
Boko Haram: Beginning of the End? – Salisu Suleiman
Two years ago, I posited on the three phases of terror, in reference to Boko Haram’s metamorphoses in three distinct stages. The group started out and quickly grew because many[…]