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Relax the lockdown and learn to live with Covid-19, by Professor MK Othman

Today, the world is facing a severe and acute public health emergency due to the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) global pandemic. Seven months ago, this...

The sunny side of Covid-19 in Nigeria, by Professor MK Othman

In this generation, nothing has devastatingly impacted on all facets of human endeavors within the span of three months like Covid-19. As I am writing...

The unravelling of America: You’ve gotta watch to cry, by Azu Ishiekwene

 Conversation with Azu I first watched the movie in the lockdown. At the beginning, it was funny when the pair was fiddling with their entree...

Between Health Minister and missing Chinese ‘Doctors’, by Hassan Gimba

The Arbiter “Time and the ocean and some guiding star and high cabal have made us what we are.” – Winston Churchill Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743...

The death of Almajiri system and the new challenge, by Hassan Gimba

The ARBITER Almajiri, masculine, or almajira, feminine, is a Hausa word. Almost 50 percent of Hausa is borrowed from Arabic. Almajiri is derived from the word Almuhajirun with Hijrah as...

Of ex-corps member Amuta, Coronavirus and Auno carnage, by Hassan Gimba

Of ex-corps member Amuta, Coronavirus and Auno carnage, by Hassan Gimba The Arbiter Last week, the nation was aghast at the unexpected news of Abraham Amuta,...

Trump’s impeachment and America’s hypocrisy, by Hassan Gimba

The Arbiter The sort of partisan divide seen in the impeachment trial of Donald J. Trump, America’s 45th president is an eye-opener to the hypocrisy...

Can CAN open a can of peace? by Hassan Gimba

The Arbiter Nigeria is at a crossroads, the kind it has never experienced before even during the period of the civil war. The way the...

Much ado about “Islamic Torture Chambers”, by Hassan Gimba

The Arbiter We so much like to abuse ourselves as a nation. And hypocritically too. We forget late General Mamman Vatsa’s advice to his childhood...

Governor Buni’s Cabinet and a Journalist’s Take, by Hassan Gimba

The Arbiter It has been awhile. The last time I put fingers to the keyboard in relation to The Arbiter (a well earned sobriquet for the Yobe...

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