Analysing the analyst

Also published in Daily Trust 

Though events take place and developments unfold in all aspects of human endeavour, people differ in their abilities to analyse each particular event or development hence the disparity in the logical validity of their interpretations and conclusions. After all, not many people are gifted with the amount of talent required to properly analyse things, come up with reasonable conclusions and offer creative solution proposals hence the need for thinkers and brilliant analysts to shape and sharpen people’s reasoning skills and inspire them to imbibe the attitude of critical thinking.

A Golden Jubilee par excellence

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Alhaji Ado Bayero, Emir of Kano

The highly respected emir of Kano, His Royal Highness, Alhaji Ado Bayero had reason to celebrate his Golden Jubilee, because, among other things, he alone has so far reigned for almost a quarter of the total two hundred and eight years of the reign of Fulani aristocratic ruling dynasty in Kano, which began in 1805. By the way, I recollect when, though as a young teenager then, Ado Bayero celebrated his Silver Jubilee twenty five years ago. The famous Silver Jubilee square in Kano metropolis with its magnificent steel structure, had, until recently when it had to be demolished for the ongoing flyover construction and road expansion project, stood superbly to keep the memory of that glamorous celebration alive.

Politicking at the expense of governing

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The current premature escalation in intra and inter-party political struggle among our politicians, and the disproportionate momentum defining the wave of the associated political hullaballoo represents the desperation of the incumbents to consolidate their gains, and also that of the opposition to regain their lost ground and “adjust” the political equation that dramatically changed to the advantage of some and disadvantage of some others, in the wake of the death of President Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’adua in 2010.

Iranian Agenda in Nigeria

Though the recent discovery of weapons in a private residence in Kano was quite shocking, it wasn’t absolutely surprising in view of Nigeria’s worsening vulnerability to security breach, which attracts some contending international intelligence agencies to settle scores on its soil away from their own territories. However whether the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah Shi'a militia maintains an active terror cell in Nigeria (as asserted by Nigerian authorities) or not, it’s quite obvious that, Iranian subversive activities in Nigeria are on the increase, after all just recently an Iranian national was convicted for arms smuggling into the country.