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A NATIONAL INSULT.

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Hanan Buhari was received at Tafawa Balewa Airport, Bauchi by Top Govt Officials. In one of my previous posts, I shared my candid opinion that the Nigerian Presidency has turned to a family business. I have received several comments after the post, castigating me that calling the Nigerian presidency a family business is - to say the least- uncalled for. I had apologized but it was an unapologetic apology, my view and stand about the subject still remain the same.  Like a prophet, barely a week after my post, one of the president's family member did an unforgettable thing!  Hanan Muhammadu Buhari just graduated with a first class in photography from Ravensbourne University, London and she is writing her project on Northern Nigerian culture.Hence, the need for her to travel to three selected Northern states viz Katstina (Her father's state), Bauchi and Kano and guess what, this trip was embarked on on the presidential private jet! Probably the presidential jet was given...

RAYS OF HOPE PART 2

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Mum and dad were always fighting. I walked away from our house and began to think about what Kate’s mum said about me. I wish to be a normal kid like Kate. I wish to normal life. I wish to go to school like other kids outside our neighbourhood. I wish to be able to speak fluent and correct English instead of the Pidgin English that I was born and grew up with. Finally, I wish to leave our neighbourhood because I realized that all the residents in our neighbourhood were bad. I cried and blamed God for creating me in the first place in the kind of place where I find myself and to the kind of parents that I have. I said that God must be partial for giving Kate normal parents and giving me bad ones. Before I met Kate, I’ve always decided to be like Axe. He was the  ruggedest  and most  cashy  among hemp dealers in my neighbourhood. Apart from having money, he was also said to be the strongest because he was twice my dad’s size and the tallest man I’ve ever seen. ...

ROBERT MUGABE

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Open main menu Search Edit Watch this page Read in another language Robert Mugabe "Mugabe" redirects here. For other uses, see  Mugabe (disambiguation) . Robert Gabriel Mugabe  ( / m ʊ ˈ ɡ ɑː b i / ; [1] Shona:  [muɡaɓe] ; born 21 February 1924) is a  Zimbabwean  revolutionary and politician who served as  Prime Minister of Zimbabwe  from 1980 to 1987 and then as  President  from 1987 to 2017. He chaired the  Zimbabwe African National Union  (ZANU) group from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the  ZANU – Patriotic Front  (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an  African nationalist , during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a  Marxist–Leninist , although after the 1990s self-identified only as a  socialist . His policies have been described as  Mugabeism . Robert Mugabe 2nd  President of Zimbabwe In office 31 Dec...