Ali M. Ali

“A grandmother is a remarkable woman. She’s a wonderful combination of warmth and kindness, laughter and love. She overlooks our faults, encourages our dreams, and […]

Time flies. Rapidly, especially when you are constantly engaged mentally and physically. Time just   whizzes. And this is even more so when you are walking […]

On Tuesday August1ST, 2017, eminent Nigerians across political parties under the banner of Inter-party Advisory Council (IPAC) gathered at the Shehu Musa Yar’adua Centre in […]

We should lose sleep.  Plenty   of it.  The renewed kamikaze aggression of Boko Haram elements   yells for frenzied vigilance. In the last couple of days, […]

This   may seem hasty, unkind even. Thirty days in the saddle and the president, Muhammadu Buhari   is being ‘assessed?’ All Nigerians who can distinguish between […]

Restive citizens   are up in arms. They want to ‘shoot’   lawmakers.  Reason? Wardrobe allowance. Our legislators were going to gulp the staggering sum of N8.64 […]

I don’t understand this. Senator Abubakar Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara are Senate President and Speaker of the House respectively, and their party, the APC […]

Except for the time gap, our nation is more or less stuck in 1983 in 2015. Recall if you may, that in 1983,the politicians had […]

This is the civil war in my person. My head tells me the best man for the Senate presidency in the 8th Assembly is Ahmed […]

So the NWC of the PDP has balls after all? It is now tit-for-tat. It is now fire-for-fire. It is ‘talking’. It has found its […]

Fourth and perhaps the most important reason I, as an admirer of the new police boss, is weeping for him is the politics of the […]

“Somebody once said that in looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if you don’t have the […]

“On Saturday, if anyone of you goes against the Ambode I picked, that is your end. If it doesn’t happen within seven days, just know […]

General Muhammadu Buhari’s electoral victory was long foretold. He has navigated the presidential quest grazing field long enough to strike gold. Thrice he ran for […]

The zero hour is at hand. In two short days, Nigerians   with a voter’s card, the permanent variety, will cast their vote. All voters   in […]

I heard this joke that was common among those critical of the PDP government led by Goodluck Jonathan. It went like this : A free […]

The title of this piece was inspired by the Godwin Daboh and Joseph Tarka spat of the 70s.It was then “If you Tarka me, I […]

It will be uncharitable to describe Governor Babangida Aliyu of Niger state as an ‘autocrat”. But events lately seem to suggest that he is intolerant […]