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Between Nasarawa’s debts and development

One of the most revealing recollections I have is the panic that gripped our senior civil servants as judgment debtors and court bailiffs swarmed arou

A case for the return of Geography

When we talk of geography, many people think of places, rocks and rainfall, but as a discipline it is much more than rocks and rainfall. It is a very

How not to vote in 2011

Prior to their emergence, zoning debate characterized our political terrain, it became a national discourse, even those who hitherto lend their voices

Borrowing from the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah

The treaty provided that the prophet (SAW) and his followers were to postpone their planned pilgrimage and return to Madinah from Hudaybiyyah without

Egypt’s Mubarak is gone, so what?

Let’s start from close home. Uthman Dan Fodiyo’s religious revolution in the 19th century was inspired, among other things, by the urge to purge north