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Fond memories of Marafan Sokoto

The road to my long and close association with Alhaji Umaru Shinkafi began in July 1991. A year after I relocated from Sokoto to Kaduna to work at Cit

How the land can save our land

The subject of popular farming has resurfaced.  In his Sallah message to Muslims, the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III,

BARKA DA SALLAH: ‘ADAM AND EVE’

Barka da Sallah! From the days of “tomato face” almost a decade ago, every Sallah Season this Column prefers to be nice and light. We all

Lean, hard times

In my neck of the woods, many adults will tell you that they cannot remember harder times. They will be speaking of their own experiences and those wh

States’ bankruptcy: Time to embrace the ‘R’ word?

The Chinese are said to use two brush strokes to write the word, ‘crisis’. It is said that for them one brush stroke stands for danger whi