SIR AHMADU BELLO Archives - Global Upfront Newspapers

Recalling The Wild, Wild West Days

Global UpfrontApr 1, 2026April 1, 20260

By Uzor Maxim Uzoatu It is very obvious that our politicians have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing from the sordid past of the country. Given the

How The North Betrayed Itself And Nigeria

Global UpfrontMar 17, 2026March 17, 20260

By Iliyasu Gadu Ilgad2009@gmail.com, 08035355706 (Texts only) If the late Premier of Northern Nigeria Sardauna of Sokoto Sir Ahmadu Bello, late Prime Minister of Nigeria

Northern Nigeria And The Perfidy Of Politics

Global UpfrontFeb 25, 2026February 25, 20260

By Usman Sarki “No longer anything but a decoration which is useful for nothing,” – Paul Cambon The withering description of a once-revered political figure

The January 15 Fixation

Global UpfrontJan 20, 2026January 20, 20260

By Hakeem Baba-Ahmed “Move like the chameleon. Keep one eye on the past, and the other on the future” – African Proverb. Last week, several

The Coup That Shattered Nigeria’s Dreams

Global UpfrontJan 15, 2026January 15, 20260

Daily Trust Editorial, January 15, 2026 Sixty years on, the morning of January 15, 1966 still reverberates across Nigeria, but most painfully in the North

Chief Aderibigbe: The Old North’s Last Custodian is Gone

Global UpfrontOct 25, 2025October 25, 20251

By Farooq A. Kperogi Saturday, October 25 Chief Joseph Adeniyi Aderibigbe, the last of the secretarial redoubts who helped Sir Ahmadu Bello hold together the

Hobbes, Nigeria, And Sarkozy

Global UpfrontSep 29, 2025September 29, 20250

By Lasisi Olagunju, September 29, 2025 In the early 1940s, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the hugely popular Sardauna of Sokoto, found himself at a crossroads of

Ahmadu Bello Children’s Territorial Politics

Global UpfrontAug 3, 2025August 3, 20250

By Festus Adedayo, August 3, 2025 There was territorial tension in Nigeria last week. Like in the famous fable where animals gathered in the forest

1966 Not Igbo Coup, Nzeogwu “Was Only Igbo In Name,” More Of Hausa – IBB

Global UpfrontFeb 21, 2025February 21, 20250

Nigeria’s former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida, IBB, has dismissed claims that the 1966 military takeover was an “Igbo coup,” saying that the leader

Female Students’ Abductions: North Must Wake Up, Daily Trust Editorial of Sunday October 8, 2023

Global UpfrontOct 8, 2023October 8, 20230

On the 15th March 1957, the very day Northern Nigeria, as we know it today, began life as a self-governing entity within a modern and