Mohammed Haruna

A little over 16 years ago, on June 10, 2002 to be precise, I wrote a syndicated piece in the New Nigerian and The Country, […]

Unsurprisingly, the war against corruption to which President Muhammadu Buhari has committed himself as a top priority, is threatening to assume an ethnic and religious […]

For the Governor of Borno State, Kashim Shettima, February 17 last year was probably one of the most unforgettable days in his life. On that […]

Last week I promised I will reproduce today some of the responses to my column of the week before on the lecture in Abuja last […]

Yesterday Justice Oloyede Folahanmi, a judge of the Osun State High Court, would have made history for the second time as the first judge to […]

Penultimate Monday July 13, the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism (WSCIJ), Lagos, held the seventh in its series of annual lectures in honour of […]

Chief Bisi Akande, former governor of Osun State and interim national chairman of the now ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), is hardly your typical politician […]

Last week I promised to publish more of the responses to my column of June 17 on the controversy that has trailed Dr. Bukola Saraki […]

All roads last Thursday led to No. 2 Dendo Road, off Ahmadu Bello Way, the commercial artery of Kaduna City.  The address houses perhaps the […]

President Muhammadu Buhari called it “constitutional” but Barnabas Gemade the ranking senator from Benue and leader of “Unity Forum” which was behind Ahmed Lawan’s bid […]

In my column last week I promised I will go into the greater details of why I said President Muhammadu Buhari should ignore calls that […]

Since the military first intervened in our politics in January 1966, the presidential-type Constitution they replaced the old Parliamentary-type of the First Republic with in […]

Two days ago, Spectrum Broadcasting Company celebrated the tenth anniversary of its flagship, Hot Fm, Abuja, one of the most popular radio stations in Abuja, […]

It is election season in Turkey; in about eighteen days or so the Turks will go to the polls to elect a new prime minister […]

In any elected government there are three arms, one to make laws, the second to execute them and the third to adjudicate on the laws. […]

Penultimate Monday, all hell broke loose following news of a ban on AIT from the coverage of the activities of the President-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari […]

As kids growing up in the fifties we were taught in primary schools that Mungo Park, a Scot, “discovered River Niger”. In Hausa, the main […]

Four years ago I almost gave up hope that the curse laid on this country by late Chief Obafemi Awolowo that Nigeria will never experience […]

For someone born with the proverbial silver spoon in his mouth, the man lived a lifestyle that was difficult, if not impossible, to beat for […]

Whatever criticisms anyone may make of President Goodluck Jonathan’s six-year presidency which will end on May 29 – and God knows there’s a hell lot […]

They said he will never be elected president of this country and used every trick in and out of the book of politics to make […]

Today I publish below the last of the three articles I promised the reader on March 4 in my tribute to the late Malam Abubakar […]