One good thing about the raging pestilence called COVID-19 is the way it has been breaking down the boundaries of orthodoxy. Long-held beliefs, assumptions, and seemingly...
“As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been...
On the 22nd of April this year I received two Whatsapp messages from a classmate who is in politics. The first is a press release by...
As it stands now, the fate of Mubarak Bala, Nigerian humanist who was arrested last week is unknown. Nobody is sure if Mr. Bala is alive...
A society which eats, debases and abuses its young is a coven run by witches. The almajiri children are innocents socialised into a culture and system...
In a recent letter to the former Emir Sanusi II of Kano shortly before the dethronement, the very respected elder statesman Ahmed Joda had (according to...
I am a humanist and my pattern of humanism is one in which my sense of humanity is engaged with spi-rituality as oppose to religiosity. In...
Birth, marriage and death are the standard trio of key events in most people’s lives. But only one ‘marriage’ is a matter of choice. However, marriage...
It is on public domain that the Northern States Governors’ Forum, in a meeting recently conducted via teleconference and chaired by the forum’s Chairman, Governor Simon...
Politically, the federal republic of Nigeria is delineated into the north, the southwest,the southeast and the south-south. The north is further divided into the core north...