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It is said that you’ve not seen it all in Nigeria if you’ve not seen Mambilla Plateau. No road in Nigeria offers more mystery than the one I am about to tell you. It’s the best if you set out on this quest with friends equally young because then all of you will be carried through days of long drive and infrequent “pee-stops” across the massive undulating snake-like road to Mambilla. You’ve likely never been there, never been to any place like that. Mambilla plateau is the greatest gift of the creator to this nation as God packed lots of beauty to behold. Among the coldest region in Nigeria (sometimes colder than Jos), there is no heat, no mosquitoes, no tension, no panicking just perfect tranquillity. Typically, this is not an area that attracts tourists and tour operators but the place is a jewel that must be tapped into. Home to the highest point in Nigeria, the largest tea farm in Nigeria and largest national park-Taraba, the adventure is life...

OPEN LETTER TO FORMER PRESIDENT : CHIEF OLUSEGUN OBASANJO. Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Obasanjo presidential Library, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Dear sir, I’m Kurtis Adigba, a lawyer, political consultant, and a citizen of Nigeria. I’m an idoma from Benue State. My father; Samuel Ochola Adigba, was a classroom teacher, and retired as a Headmaster. My father, was some years ago, the Benue State Secretary of the National Party of Nigeria( NPN). That was the highest he attained. My mother, was a school teacher who later joined the civil service, and retired as a Head of Department of Adult Education Department of Apa Local Government Area, of Benue State. She died in 2015. I chose to introduce myself to you upfront so you know I have no pedigree to match yours, and because I know your supporters and attack dogs will come after me, and raise questions about my pedigree. They will ask: “who is his father....who is he to dare write a letter to a former Head of State and President..”. Now you know. A...

Our forefathers say power if an intoxicant which only those with the strongest of characters should be entrusted with. As if echoing them, Abraham Lincoln famously said, “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” Senator Ishaku Elisha Abbo was entrusted with power as a senator representing Adamawa North in the 9th Senate (polling 79,337 votes against the incumbent senator, Binta Masi Garba who scored 63,219 ) but he failed the character test woefully when he savagely assaulted a nursing mother in a sex toy shop. The blow by blow recording of the encounter which has now been viewed by millions of people all over the world, was captured by the shop’s CCTV camera. The greater tragedy in the 41-year-old senator’s self-destruct is that he has done a great damage to his generation.  Imagine how he was touted — fraudulently, it now appears — as a beacon of hope by his publicists: “Senator Ishaku Abbo (SIA), is a young revolutionary and adv...

Education is now being used as a tool by the former Kano governor Senator Rab’iu Musa Kwankwaso to remain politically relevant. From his so-called abstruse free education policy introduced at the tail end of his second tenure in office between 2011 and 2015, to his sole intent of leaving the encumbrance to Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. His education legacy is simmered with hundreds of dilapidated education infrastructure in all the nooks and crannies of the state with a rehabilitation of a few on major roads and painted with the Kwankwasiyya inscription for public eye, in addition to the foreign scholarship scheme he initiated as the Governor of Kano state. No doubt, Kwankwaso is among one of the prominent Nigerian politicians still exasperating in the defeat they suffered in the just concluded 2019 general elections. The politician lost the Upper Chamber to Senator Ibrahim Shekarau who, roundly defeated his political god-son, but Kwankwaso was also dealt a big blow by His Excellenc...

Understanding the Political Economy of farmer/herder Conflicts in Nigeria The early man started with gathering fruits, hunting, and later farming. In all civilizations and across all societies there are farmers/herders co-existing together. Prior to colonialism and after colonialism the problem between herders/farmers have been a major concern to successive governments. Public policies are difficult to be enacted in Nigeria as a result of diversities and politics associated with policymaking. There is no Nigerian who is comfortable the way the farmer/herder clashes have been ravaging communities. The problem has been identified but Nigerians are divided on its solution. However, policy direction on resolving the incessant farmer/herder conflict is still contested, complicated and divisive as result polarization. Why the Ruga policy has generated controversy is the framing of the policy that Nigerians see as bias and sectional. The prism and identity question becomes amplified Mores...