Development

The death of one of the most eloquent politicians to emerge from Northern Nigeria, during the Easter holidays, threw the Nation into a deluge of shock, eulogies and recommendations.

Alhaji Abubakar Rimi (1940-2010), a Second Republic Governor of Kano State, known for his ability to state the truth in rather unconventional ways, ‘a political good guy’; died on Sunday the 4th of April at Aminu Kano University Teaching Hospital (AKTH), Kano- the aftermath of a Cardiac arrest, after bandits attacked his envoy.

The pungent ordour of unprocessed cocoa- a mixture of yeast and caked up milk- wafts through the air and hits me forcefully on the face as we make a our way through the once tarred, undulating pathway that leads to the Malato Community-a settlement in the middle of no where, an hour’s drive from Akure, the capital town of Ondo State, Nigeria.