Category Archives: General

This Much Talked About National Conference – By Ibraheem A. Waziri

This Much Talked About National Conference By Ibraheem A. Waziri iawaziri@yahoo.com The then Obasanjo’s administration  in 2005 announced its intention to convene a national conference with the view of discussing…

KADUNA STATE: THE FAILURES OF A GOVERNOR – By Ibraheem A. Waziri

KADUNA STATE: THE FAILURES OF A GOVERNOR By Ibraheem A. Waziri iawaziri@yahoo.com   On the 17th of July 2013 the executive governor of Kaduna State, Dr. Mukhtar Ramalan Yero, attended…

Regulating Religious Preaching in Northern Nigeria – By Ibraheem A. Waziri

Regulating Religious Preaching in Northern Nigeria By Ibraheem A. Waziri iawaziri@yahoo.com   The idea of a nation since time is a representation of what is more of an ideological entity…

Ghadir Khum, Shiites in Nigeria and the Search for Reasonable Debating Templates

Ghadir Khum, Shiites in Nigeria and the Search for Reasonable Debating Templates By Ibraheem A. Waziri Email: iawaziri@yahoo.com Old as some issues are in our socio-cultural life, they are not resolved…

Male Chauvinism, Sexism and Feminism In Northern Nigeria

Male Chauvinism, Sexism and Feminism In Northern Nigeria By Ibraheem A. Waziri Male Chauvinism means belief in inherent superiority of men over women to the extent that hatred of the…

MY ENCOUNTER WITH A SOUTHERN KADUNA GERONTOCRAT – John Danfulani

MY ENCOUNTER WITH A SOUTHERN KADUNA GERONTOCRAT By John Danfulani At about 2pm Sunday 18th August 2013, I went to my car wash in Barnawa to clean my car…. suddenly,…

Mungo Park Did Not Discover River Niger …but Mansa Abubakari II discovered America

Mungo Park Did Not Discover River Niger …but Mansa Abubakari II discovered America Permit me to relay this like a prayer, like a song. As do the Griots, the Jeliw…

Disagreeing with Adamu Adamu: An Elaboration

Disagreeing with Adamu Adamu: An Elaboration By Ibraheem A. Waziri It was Emma Henda who responded to my article, Disagreeing with Adamu Adamu that appeared in these pages last week…

Disagreeing with Adamu Adamu

DISAGREEING WITH ADAMU ADAMU By Ibraheem A. Waziri In today’s Nigeria, the Hausa Fulani are held at the boot of every unfair joke. They are blamed for all that is…

Boys to Men: The Invention of Adolescence — Dr. Peregrino Brimah

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought like a child, and reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up my childish ways. …