Heartfelt condolences to Governor Namadi and to all of us, by Adamu Muhd Usman “The living are just the dead on vacation.”— Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949), Belgian playwright and poet Life is made up of many days—some of jubilation and celebration, others of grief and remembrance, and still others of leisure and pleasure. Among these, the worst is undoubtedly the day of death. I come from a family of 15 children from my father, with over 150 grandchildren. The eldest child in our family, Khadija Usman, popularly known as Gamandi or Yaata, passed...