Saturday Column

Saturday Column

CORONAVIRUS 6 – UNDERSTANDING COVID-RELATED DEPRESSION

Readers may recall this Column was doing a series on Coronavirus and its traumatic consequences on our social, economic and mental lives but we digres

BARKA DA SALLAH AMID CORONAVIRUS – AWAITING HERD IMMUNITY?

It has been almost a week since Sallah (Eid el Fitr) which was ‘celebrated’ in these our dire circumstances of the fear of COVID-19 and lockdown in ma

RAMADAN AMID CORONAVIRUS 5 – ELEGY FOR BALARABE MAIKABA

We end the Holy Month of Ramadan still in the grip of grief. We today mourn Prof Balarabe Maikaba, an academic colleague at BUK Mass Comm. This is wha

RAMADAN AMID CORONAVIRUS 3 – ‘THROW EVERYTHING AT IT!’

Whom do we believe? Would you believe World Health Organisation (WHO) who tells us there’s no vaccine or cure for COVID-19, and calls every unorthodox

RAMADAN AMID CORONAVIRUS 2 – ‘AS KANO MOURNS DAILY’

All the online groups I belong to have been reduced to daily choruses of ‘Inna lilLahi wa inna ilaiHi raji’un! (From Allah we come, and to Him we shal