The Mangled remains of the plane, crashed into a storey building. Photo Courtesy: Sahara Reporters As I struggle feebly, to pull myself together from my misery and muster the vestiges[…]
Author: Zainab Usman
Analysis · Culture and Society
Nigeria’s First Mass Wedding
On Tuesday 15th May, Nigeria witnessed its first mass wedding in the Northern city of Kano when 100 couples were married off by the Kano state government under a programme to[…]
Analysis · General · Politics · World Affairs
Neither the Washington Nor the Beijing Consensus: What Then?
It seems Africans in the Diaspora generally and Nigerians in particular have reached a saturation point where any public event which features high profile African guests or speakers especially[…]
Nigeria’s Porous Borders in Pictures
I have always heard that Nigeria’s borders are porous, but I never quite grasped the magnitude of the “porousness” until I received these pictures below of the Nigeria-Niger border at[…]
Analysis · General · Politics · World Affairs
Nigeria, Boko Haram and Pervasive Distrust
At around 01.30 am in the wee hours of Tuesday 13th March, while checking local Nigerian and global news as I usually do before heading to bed, I came across[…]
Analysis · Culture and Society · opinion · World Affairs
Celebrating the Resilience of African Women
“I should have known that ambition and success were not to be expected in an African woman. An African woman should be a good African woman whose qualities should be[…]
Analysis · General · Politics · World Affairs
Beaming the Spotlight Where it Matters Most
With tears streaming down his cheeks, Vladmir Putin outgoing Prime Minister and now President-elect of Russia declared with great conviction, that his victory in the just concluded presidential elections was the outcome[…]
Analysis · General · Politics · World Affairs
African Leaders and Free Lunches
The popular adage “There’s no such thing as a free lunch” kept crossing my mind in the run-up to the just concluded London Conference on Somalia. I wondered why[…]
Our Silent and Unsung Heroes
It is said that “a picture is worth a thousand words”. In the era of new media and youtube videos though, one could well say a video clip is worth[…]