Sir Ahmadu Bello Archives

This Is My Story – Justice Mohammed Lawal Uwais

Posted By: adminon: June 11, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Barewa College Zaria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Hajia Hajara, Hon. Justice Augustine Nnamani, Justice Atanda-Fatayi Williams, Justice Ayo Irikefe, Justice George Sodeinde Sowemimo, Justice Mamman Nasir, Justice Mohammed Bello, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sir Danley AlexanderNo CommentsViews:

The biographical is, in itself, a problematic approach to history but, here, a former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Mohammed Lawal Uwais, unleashes the tiny fragments that constitute big history... Read more

D S Ibrahim Collapses Identity Fault Lines As Christians, Muslims, Others Converge @ His Burial in Zaria

Posted By: adminon: May 31, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Christians, Danlami Samuel, Kano, Kano State Pension Board, Kano State Polytechnic, Kano State Scholarship Board, Muslims, Old North, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Zaria, ‘Special Room’No CommentsViews:

Identity boundaries and fault lines collapsed temporarily earlier today as Nigeria lowered a barrier breaking elder. Christians, Muslims and others travelled to bear witness to the burial of... Read more

Updated: The Idoma Turn to the Biographical in Nigerian Politics

Posted By: adminon: July 22, 2024In: BookspaceTags: 'M T African Pride', Admiral Francis Agbiti, Cde John Odah, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, Dr Sam Mbakwe, Idoma Native Authority, Igumale, Madonna Hospital - Makurdi, Okpoga, Sir Ahmadu Bello, St Gregory College, The ChurchNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo ONOJA For a minority ethnic group with the kind of empirical presence that Idoma elements have had in post-independence Nigeria, there is no risk in saying that the nationality has... Read more

Time for ASUU to Re-invent Itself, Says retiring Longest Serving Chairman, Cde M.M.Yusif

Posted By: adminon: November 03, 2023In: De-EscalationTags: Ahmadu Bello University, ASUU, BUK, Political Science, Sir Ahmadu Bello, ZariaNo CommentsViews:

By Ibrahim Lawal Ahmed On September 9th, 2023, friends, colleagues and students of Malam Mu’azu Muhammad Yusif, more popularly called M.M. Yusif, gathered to honour and celebrate his long ac... Read more

When the Spokesperson of Arewa Consultative Forum is a Radical

Posted By: adminon: October 05, 2023In: Words and WorldTags: ACF, Afenifere, Articulatory politics, Hegemony, J. S Tarka, Mallam Aminu Kano, Middle Belt Forum, NIPR, Ohanaeze, Prof Tukur Baba, Sir Ahmadu Bello, The NorthNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Prof Tukur Baba’s emergence as spokesperson for the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) will make news on two key grounds. First ground is the how crisis communications is,... Read more

On Sultan Sa’ad Abubakar 111 @ 66

Posted By: adminon: August 26, 2022In: People in ActionTags: Centre of gravity, Christianisation, Christians, Mallam Aminu Kano, Muslims, NEPU, Prof Dahiru Yahya, Prof Nur Alkali, Prof. Ahmadu Jalingo, Sir Ahmadu Bello, TSMNo CommentsViews:

Post-independence Nigeria has been so defined by inter-group acrimony as to have left individuals and groups with terrible enemy images of the other persons and groups. The dynamics of the p... Read more

Citizen Deborah And The Northern Crisis

Posted By: adminon: May 17, 2022In: De-EscalationTags: Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, Mallam Aminu Kano, Northern People's Congress, Prime Minister Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, Sir Ahmadu Bello, SokotoNo CommentsViews:

By Ike Okonta Last week, students of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto, laid their hands on one of their own, Deborah Samuel, and mobbed her to death. They alleged that Deborah... Read more

Northern Nigeria: Humpty Dumpty Or Behemoth in the Pangs of Transformation? (Part 2)

Posted By: adminon: March 21, 2017In: GovernanceTags: 'New Beginning', Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, BOKO HARAM, Cameroun, Chad, Niger Republic, Prof John Paden, Sir Ahmadu BelloNo CommentsViews:

Northern Nigeria: Humpty Dumpty Or Behemoth in the Pangs of Transformation? (Part 2) The first part of this report identified seven key developments that it graded as frightening and indicat... Read more

Benue and the Agricultural Moment of Truth in the North

Posted By: adminon: November 05, 2016In: GovernanceTags: ABU Zaria, Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (rtd), Aliko Dangote, Bakalori Dam, Benue State, BON, General T. Y. Danjuma, Goronyo Dam, Jigawa State, Katsina, Kebbi, KTL, Mambilla Plateau, Niger Republic, NNDC, River Sokoto, Samuel Ortom, Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Taraba State, ZamfaraNo CommentsViews:

Looking at it from his observatory in Kaduna, Col. Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, (rtd) could not help raise the first alarm: N38b for a cargo airport? Where in the world are farm produce of the typ... Read more

11th FRCN Annual Lecture: Obadiah Mailafia and the Long Shadows of the Sardauna of Sokoto

Posted By: adminon: October 29, 2016In: GovernanceTags: AU, Bishop Gabriel Ganaka, Dr Aminu Yusuf Usman, Dr Obed Mailafia, Dr Yima Sen, Facebook, FRCN, Google, Kaduna State, Kannywood, Lai Mohammed, Mohammadu Buhari, Nollywood, Samson Shuaib, Sardauna, Sir Ahmadu Bello, Sokoto State, UN, Yakubu LameNo CommentsViews:

It was a case of the Sardauna of Sokoto and only Premier of the defunct Northern Nigeria is dead but long live the Sardauna last Thursday at the 11th Annual Lecture of the Federal Rad... Read more