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Kneeling for Imams of northern Nigeria, By Lasisi Olagunju

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A minister suffered severe abuse and reprimand from the elites of the North last week because she asked the North to choose mass education first before mass marriage. Sixty-four years after independence, we are still struggling to understand Nigeria’s Muslim North and its ways. A 1950 letter to the editor of Gaskiya, northern Nigeria’s preeminent […]

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Northern Elders Forum, Afenifere, Ohanaeze hit Buhari over mass murder in Northern Nigeria

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Northern Elders Forum; Pan-Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere; and the apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide; have knocked the President, Muhammadu Buhari; over kidnappings and killings by bandits in the North. There were series of protests in the Federal Capital Territory and in some states in the North. The protesters had converged on the Ayuba […]

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Northern Nigeria: Where power and poverty co-exist, By Tayo Oke

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Before anyone decries this piece as ‘anti-North’, or even ‘pro-North’, it is neither. Most readers familiar with the ethos of this column would agree. What you are reading is simply a dialogue (albeit) a hard, but necessary dialogue we need to have with one another as compatriots. Jaw-jaw, they say, is better than war-war is […]

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