MaTaZ ArIsInG Death in any situation is painful, but when it is as brutal and senseless as murder, our hearts break twice. As a nation mourns a man known to many as the husband of late Professor Dora Akunyili, we as a family remember the man we call Daddy. He was a son — as […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, yesterday, clarified the position of the northern governors over the power shift controversy, saying his colleagues in the north never opposed the presidency going to the south in 2023, but were only against the language used by their southern colleagues. This is as the Southern and Middle-Belt […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG The Nigerian Navy has disowned a statement made by Commodore Jamila Abubakar Malafa indicting Chadian soldiers. Malafa, an international maritime lawyer and Navy’s first female Commodore, spoke on Monday at a public hearing by the House of Representatives. The event was organized by the committee on national security and intelligence for deliberations on […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG MIDDLE BELT FORUM Press statement The attention of the Middle Belt Forum (MBF) has been drawn to the statement credited to the Northern Governors’ Forum and Traditional Rulers on Monday that it was totally opposed to power rotation on account of the fact that the Nigerian constitution does not provide for it. Resorting […] Read more
By Olusola Ajiboye SHAKING OFF THE MANACLES Until the Fulani Jihadists were defeated at the Jalumi wars of 1840, their objectives of “dipping the Quran in the sea” could have seen a large swath of the Yoruba Country subjugated to the Fullani Emirate Rule. The assassination of Kakanfo Afonja by his Fulani allies and the […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor E.A Adeboye has opened up on a chat he had with his former schoolmate after he learnt that Nigeria was owing N55 trillion. Speaking on Sunday, September 26, 2021 during his sermon at an interdenominational church service which held to mark Nigeria’s […] Read more
MaTaZ ArIsInG The Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum and Governor of Ondo State, Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, on Monday, waved away the resolution of the that the Northern Governors’ Forum when he stated that the forum was merely exercising its rights to freedom of expression over its stance on 2023 presidency. Akeredolu, emphasised that the resolution […] Read more
Straddling a caravan route to the Sahara, the city of Sokoto has since ancient times been a major trading hub in Nigeria’s extreme northwest savannah. But a surge in attacks and mass school kidnappings by criminal gangs, known locally as bandits, has dealt the region a terrible blow, making farming and trading impossible for many. […] Read more
HELD ON MONDAY 27TH SEPTEMBER, 2021 MaTaZ ArIsInG The Northern States Governors’ Forum, in its continuous efforts to address the challenges bedeviling the Northern States convened an Emergency Meeting today Monday 27th September, 2021 at the Council Chamber Sir, Kashim Ibrahim House, Kaduna. The meeting was also attended by Chairmen of Northern States Traditional Council […] Read more
Monday Lines By Lasisi Olagunju (Published in MaTaZ ArIsInG on Monday, 27 September, 2021) Alhaji Baba Ahmed, a Mauritanian cow seller, plied his trade from his country to the Gold Coast (now Ghana) and to Dahomey (now Benin Republic). Business was very good but at a point, his customers in Dahomey, with impunity, refused to […] Read more
