FOR THE RECORDS...The Mossad Kidnap Of Umaru Dikko: The Full Story

by Max Siollun

Umaru Dikko
Alhaji Umaru Abdurrahaman Dikko was born on December 31, 1936 in the small village of Wamba, close to Zaria in Kaduna State. As a young man Dikko worked for the BBC’s Hausa service. He has been at the vanguard of northern Nigerian politics since the 1960s when, then as a promising young politician he was instrumental in (i) mobilising northern public opinion against Nigeria’s first

MOTHERING DAY: SPECIAL TRIBUTE TO MY MOTHER, CHIEF S.O.BELLO ON HER HOME COMING TO OSOGBO

By Ajibola S. Bello

In 1972, your husband Chief J. Olajide Bello was transferred from Ibadan in the old Oyo state to Akure suddenly to became a Station head, even though there was no friends or relatives there to help him settle down and he must resumed unfailingly the next 48 hours, you have an option to remain in Ibadan where there is abundance of your family or return to

MUST READ! "FULANI HERDSMEN KILLINGS; MODUS OPERANDI, THOSE INVOLVED, AND THE POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS" BY Professor Charles Adisa

The most significant problem that African nations face is lack of leadership. Normally, Leadership should be an intentional conscious effort to attend to the people’s needs and aspirations. But in Africa, even though many of those that are thrust into the position of leadership mean well, they lack the capacity to lead and meet the people/s hopes and aspirations. Apart from lack of adequate preparation for leadership, one other notable factor that had inhibited good leadership among African leaders is the seemingly non-existent structures for research and information management in the society. Hence, many well-meaning leaders often do not have the requisite information needed for a thorough appraisal and resolution of problems as they arise.

GET BETTER, NOT BITTER

A teacher asked her students to bring some tomatoes in a plastic bag to school. Each tomato will be given a name of the person whom that child hates.

 Like this, the number of tomatoes will be equal to the number of persons they hate.

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS

A group of 50 people attended a seminar.

Suddenly the speaker stopped and started giving each person a balloon.

Each one was asked to write his/her name on it using a marker.

Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.

*I WANT TO BE A TV*

A Primary School teacher asked her pupils to write an essay on ”A wish you want from God?" At the end of the day, the teacher collected all the essays given by her pupils. She took them to her house, sat down and started marking.

Whilst marking the essays, she sees a strange essay written by one of her pupils. That essay made her very emotional. Her husband came and sat beside her and saw her crying. The husband asked her, "What happened?" "What's making you cry"

MAYBE...

One day, the farmer's horse ran away, and all the neighbours gathered in the evening and said ‘that’s too bad.’

He said ‘maybe.’