Saturday Column

Saturday Column

Happy Islamic New Year 1442

Happy Islamic New Year 1442! ‘Shekara Kwana!’ (Hausa for “A Year is as A Day!”). Exactly an Islamic year ago (usually Gregorian year less eleven days)

CORRUPTION: THINKING OUT OF THE BOX

All those who trusted and believed – and we count in the millions – that a Buhari presidency would be the final bulwark in this country’s anti-corrupt

INSECURITY: THINKING OUT OF THE BOX

If there’s one country so deeply buried in the box of doing the routine and the mundane,that country is Nigeria. On everything, our leaders, policymak

BARKA DA SALLAH ON EID EL KABIR 1441

Over the fourteen years of this Column, as part of every Sallah we do a Barka da Sallah where we try to eschew the routine and the mundane, and wax hu

CORONAVIRUS 13 – MISBAHU’S TAKE ON “RAYUWA DA KORONA”

Finally, this series (Coronavirus Diary)’s intended dozen is complete (plus GYARA, the Hausa business word for that free ‘topping’ to retain a custome