North West Dev Commission and Other Issues: Who Will Save the Region? Northwestern Nigeria, the veritable location of Katsina—Kano—Kaduna, aka KKK, the brain and heartbeat of Nigeria’s politics, is in disarray. It is at a ferocious war with itself and external forces and direly needs salvation. The twin forces of insecurity and nepotism are massively…
Readers Comments Writing, like singing, is a creative art; you must be in the mood to write or sing better. Being in the mood does not mean being joyful; it can also be sorrowful, something to provoke creativity. Thank God, I am not writing to earn a living but a deep-rooted hobby with a passion…
Smart Farming: SAA-KNARDA-KSADP Model for Food Security in Nigeria Partly as an analogy to last week’s article on smart farming as a pathway to food security in Nigeria and partly as a digression, it is expedient to discuss the Sasakawa-KNARDA-KSADP model. This model demonstrates that achieving food security in Nigeria does not require rocket science…
Smart Farming: A Pathway For Food Security In Nigeria By Prof. M. K. Othman The world population in 2024 is slightly less than 8.2 billion from the population of 2.5 billion in 1952, a wolfing increase of 5.7 billion people over 72 years. This analysis is made from the information obtained from Worldmeters (http://www.worldometers.info/)….
Gender Agenda: Woman as a Vanguard of Change in Society Is a man more powerful than a woman? A woman with a sound anatomic physique, high physiological provocative, and sensitive intellectual inertia can be a conqueror and vanguard of societal change. God has made the world to be that of a woman for her to…
StopASUUStrike-Yayale’s Arduous Tasks: Can His Name Be Written In Gold By Prof. MK Othman I resisted writing on the above subject for an apparent reason, but the force of necessity outweighs the force of resistance, and I have to cede to the momentum’s law. Reflecting on the crisis bedeviling the Nigerian university system in the…
Salamatu-WOFAN Succor: Story of Amadu and his Neglected Community Even a stone-hearted devil cannot but must be undoubtedly empathetic to the plight of Mallam Amadu Yakubu, a devastatingly physically challenged person living in one of the most neglected communities in Jigawa State. Amadu lives in Kudai, a suburb of Dutse, which is the state capital…
Sasakawa Africa Association: Three Decades of Fight against Hunger and Poverty in Nigeria, On Monday, 7th October 2024, my book with the above title was unveiled at the Coronation Hall of the Kano state government house before a high-level audience from ten countries and twenty states across Nigeria – a story for another day. This…
#StopASUUStrike: What are the options for an ASUU strike? As I write this piece, the additional 14-day ultimatum that began on Monday, 23rd September 2024, after the 21-day expiration, would end on Monday, 7th October 2024. This means that the government must urgently act to avoid ASUU’s declaration of trade dispute. In my article “#StopASUUStrike:…
Salamatu-WOFAN: Celebrating World Peace Day in Kudai and London Are Nigerians aware of the World Peace Day, September 21, 2024? How can you have peace when unsure of the next meal? Can peace rein in an atmosphere of hunger, poverty, insecurity, and resentment? Like many Nigerians in my class, life’s daily struggles had me…
