Tribute

Tribute

Nigeria’s security challenges bring back memories of late Marafan Sokoto

Baba Marafa left us on the 6th of July, 2016, making this my third personal tribute in what has so far been the longest and toughest three years of ou

Adieu, Prof. Ogundipe-Leslie, great ‘Stiwanist’

For the past couple of days, there have been heated arguments for and against the actions of a certain young man on a domestic flight in Nigeria. The

Alhaji Mamman Shata: 20 years after

As another day crawled in by thirty minutes only in June 1999, a great man lay sick in a bed at the University Teaching Hospital in Kano. The only fam

JUST IN: Former Kaduna commissioner, Abdulsalam Baba Ahmed, dies at 53

A former commissioner of Land and Survey in Kaduna state, Abdulsalam Baba Ahmed, on Tuesday died after an illness. His elder brother, Hakeem Baba Ahme

Remembering the kindest father 10 years after

Until that sad night of May 24, 2009, when my father, Alhaji Hamid Denja Abdullahi, crossed to the land of our silent fathers at the age of 70 at the