The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has given security agencies in Sokoto State 24 hours to arrest operatives of the state-owned Sokoto Marshals allegedly involved in an attack on its governorship candidate, Muhammadu Munir Dan-Iya. The party also demanded the release of two Department of State Services (DSS) personnel reportedly abducted during the incident, as well as adequate protection for its candidate and members. The ADC Presidential Campaign Council (ADC-PCC) made the demands in a statement its Director of Media and Publicity, Kola Ologbondiyan, issued on Saturday in Abuja. According to the council, the incident occurred along Airport Road, Sokoto, as…
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Masussuka invited us to talk about peace. He was murdered before the day arrived. I am still in shock. Last year, after reading some of my writings about him, Sheikh Yahya Ibrahim Masussuka reached out to me. He later personally invited me to the National Peace Dialogue scheduled for today, 31 October. I could not attend. On Monday, he was assassinated. Yesterday, crowds gathered for his burial on a scale I cannot remember seeing in Katsina for many years. Today, people from different religious communities attended the dialogue he had planned. The guests came. The man who invited them had…
In celebrating the 20th Sultan of Sokoto’s 20 years of transformative leadership of the Ummah, Islam, Peacebuilding, National and Global Human Development.
Scholars have highlighted the enduring relevance of the Sokoto Caliphate’s principles of leadership, justice, public accountability and security in addressing contemporary challenges facing society. They made the observations on Thursday during the third day of the 13th Sheikh Usmanu Bin Fodiyo Week 2026, held at the Islamic Education Trust (IET) Hall, Sokoto, where they examined the historical foundations of the Caliphate and their application to modern governance and security challenges. The first lecture, titled “Leadership, Justice and Public Trust: Sultan Muhammad Bello’s Legacy in Theory and Practice and its Relevance to the Contemporary Ummah,” was delivered by the Vice-Chancellor of…
Today, I celebrate a man whose friendship has been part of my life for more than 35 years, my dear brother, trusted friend and lifelong comrade, Dr. Hussaini Abdu, Country Director of CARE Nigeria. Hussaini, my brother, whenever I remember our days at Bayero University, Kano (BUK), I remember not just our student struggles but the friendships, convictions and sacrifices that shaped our lives. We belonged to a generation that confronted military dictatorship, demanded the restoration of democracy and believed that Nigeria could become a more just and accountable society. As Welfare Secretary of the BUK Students’ Union, your intellectual…
Anthropologist Hassan Ali Ghazaly, founder of Nasser International Forum, met with Ambassador Dr Fayed Mostafa, Assistant Secretary-General of the League of Arab States and Head of the Palestine and Occupied Arab Territories Sector, and Minister Plenipotentiary Dr Nawal Al-Arabi of the Sector. The meeting took place on the sidelines of an event commemorating the victims of the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli occupation authorities against the Palestinian people, particularly in the Gaza Strip. The event was held at the headquarters of the League of Arab States Secretariat on Sunday, 18 October 2026. The event was organised pursuant to a resolution…
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has urged the Nigerian Law School to allow female Muslim students wearing hijab to sit for the final Bar examination, warning against collective punishment over an alleged examination malpractice incident. The appeal followed reports of a verbal directive allegedly issued by the Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, barring hijab-wearing candidates from entering examination halls ahead of the final Bar examination scheduled for Saturday, October 31, 2026, in Abuja, Lagos and Yenagoa. In a statement issued late Friday, MURIC’s Executive Director, Professor Ishaq Akintola, described the alleged directive as discriminatory, arguing that it unfairly targets…
The gamble of dumping the PDP and Atiku for the APC and Tinubu raises a big question: Can he break the jinx of failed handovers?
The governor taps engineer-turned-phone-repairer to train beneficiaries in mobile phone repairs and solar installation
In Loving Memory of a Principal, Historian, Mentor, Guardian and Father Figure29 October 2006 – 29 October 2026Some men pass through our lives and leave memories. Others pass through our lives and become part of the very architecture of who we are. Mallam Mohammed Kudu Tsadu belonged, unmistakably, to the latter. Twenty years ago today, on 29 October 2006, the ill-fated ADC Airlines plane crash brought to a tragic and abrupt end the earthly journey of a man whose influence extended far beyond the classrooms, assembly grounds and administrative corridors of the Federal Government Colleges he served. Among the precious…