Gimba Kakanda
Sahara Reporters
United Kingdom
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The Implication Of Jaafar Jaafar, By Gimba Kakanda
The uncertainty around the lives of journalists and government critics under this government justifies Jaafar’s decision. → Read More
Shettima’s Bitter Truths To Power, By Gimba Kakanda
Any government surrounded by sycophants eventually implodes. Dictators are cheap inventions of undeserved praises and the insincerity of aides, and this is even especially so in Nigeria where the political class prefer their echo chamber to the truth of their stewardship. → Read More
Abba Kyari: A Story Retold, By Gimba Kakanda
He never defended himself, neither did these insiders, friends, and associates who’ve suddenly found their pens and regained the use of their voices. → Read More
Abba Kyari: A Story Retold By Gimba Kakanda
I just hope that our power-brokers prioritize the survival of this country as they pause to find Mr. Kyari’s replacement. Nigeria, like the rest of the world, is at war with nature, the strangest our generation, and a few before ours, have ever witnessed, and we can’t afford a long political distraction. → Read More
Why Nigeria cannot afford a stand-off with South Africa
Today Abuja addresses Pretoria from a position of weakness. → Read More
Jumia Travel’s Bait-And-Switch Marketing By Gimba Kakanda
Somebody has to do the Lord’s work and warn Nigerians about this systemic exploitation of customers, which our business environment has enabled and sustained, by that online travel agency called Jumia Travel. I don't want them to get away with doing this again, and again, with neither an apology nor damages for such violation. → Read More
The KABAFEST Dilemma, By Gimba Kakanda
I cannot see where it’s written that a taxpayer would be indebted to a politician for benefiting from a government’s use of resources for a beneficial public project. → Read More
The KABAFEST Dilemma By Gimba Kakanda
Our usually polarised literary community was chaotic this week as a tribe of writers entered the final lapse of its campaign for boycott of Kaduna Book and Arts Festival holding in Kaduna from July 5 to 8, 2017, with US-based book reviewer and irrepressible humorist, Mr. Ikhide Ikheloa, describing the proposed event as “debauchery” and the participants “rented” to deify Governor Nasir El-Rufai… → Read More
Why I’m Afraid of Nigeria’s Break-up, By Gimba Kakanda
My dear friends from the South, it’s not untrue that I do not want you to leave. → Read More
Why I'm Afraid of Nigeria’s Break-up By Gimba Kakanda
A few days ago, a friend asked me to explain my aversion to the idea of secession as championed by the neo-Biafra advocates of Southeast Nigeria. He had assumed it was the fear, as simplified in a certain series of propaganda, of the North's foreseen inability to sustain itself economically post-breakup. Since it was a private conversation, I elected to present my actual reason bit by bit, some… → Read More
The Misinterpretation of Muhammadu Sanusi II, By Gimba Kakanda
The way out of this cultural entrapment is a mental revolution. → Read More
The Misinterpretation Of Muhammadu Sanusi II By Gimba Kakanda
There is a reason the North of Nigeria is yet to be “on top of the situation”, as our policymakers tend to say even when a crisis is out of control, in the quest to redeem the escalating social problems that abound there. It is because we are in denial of the origins, starting from our manipulation and misapplication of religion in governance to the stark deficiencies of our ruling class, and… → Read More