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Sexual Desire Must Be Governed by Discipline and Moral Responsibility
Recently, an issue about a husband impregnating his housemaid has taken to the social media platforms, drawing fierce and...
How Would Nigeria Be Without Dangote?
Sometimes, God sends help to a nation not through politics, but through people. What would Nigeria be without Dangote? That...
Does Hausaphone Social Media Warrant “Serious” Study?
It seems I am the star of the moment! In November 2025 I granted a talk-in to Hausa Viral and...
Sam Nda-Isaiah: Five Years On We Still Remember
Sam Nda-Isaiah: Adieu, My Mentor December 15, 2020 The first time I read his article in the late 1990’s on...
A Necessary Question: Who Really Broke the Arewa Compact?
The constant various calls for a detribalized, irreligious Arewa leadership are noble and emotionally appealing. Yet if we are serious...
Kaduna Electric’s Unjust Charges
After five days of agonising, unexplained darkness, power has finally been restored to the residents of Badikko community in...
Baba Ramatu: The Queen Has Gone Home to Rest
INNA LILLAHI WA INNA ILAIHIR RAAJI’UN! This week, on a blessed Friday, our Creator called home our mother, Baba Hajiya...
The Decline of Community Parenting and Teacher Respect
I was discussing with some friends a few days ago about how community parenting has almost disappeared in today’s...
The Voice We Refused to Hear: How Sheikh Ahmad Gumi Foretold Nigeria’s Collapse and Tried to Save a Nation Lost Between Injustice, Poverty, Corruption, and Misrule
For more than two decades, I have followed Sheikh Dr. Ahmad Abubakar Mahmud Gumi - first as a young man...
A ‘Swift’ Strike, a Long War: The Dangerous Illusion of Quick Fixes in Nigeria
When a great power promises to come “fast, swift and vicious” into another country, the language is cinematic — and...