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Activists, Comrades, Colleagues Set to Remember Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed mni

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2026In: FlashbackTags: BBU, Ethno-religious essentialism, NIPSS, Proletarian internationalism, Sokoto State, Violent capitalism, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:

A huge firework of remembering (and forgetting) is expected Wednesday April 29th, 2026 when friends, colleagues, comrades and witnesses gather in Abuja, Nigeria to honour Cde Abubakar Sokoto... Read more

Activists, Comrades, Colleagues Set to Remember Cde Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed mni

Posted By: adminon: April 26, 2026In: FlashbackTags: BBU, Ethno-religious essentialism, NIPSS, Proletarian internationalism, Sokoto State, Violent capitalism, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:

A huge firework of remembering (and forgetting) is expected Wednesday April 29th, 2026 when friends, colleagues, comrades and witnesses gather in Abuja, Nigeria to honour Cde Abubakar Sokoto... Read more

The Passage of Comrade Abubakar Sokoto Mohammed

Posted By: adminon: December 12, 2025In: People in ActionTags: Ethno-religious essentialism, NIPSS, Proletarian internationalism, Sokoto State, Violent capitalism, YUSSANNo CommentsViews:

He underwent a surgical operation about three weeks ago but he himself described it as a minor surgery. In any case, it was after the surgery that he addressed the Fanon Centenary held at th... Read more

On Sokoto State Governor’s Clampdown on His Critic, Hamdiyya Cidi Sherif

Posted By: adminon: November 30, 2024In: De-EscalationTags: Disease, Drug abuse, Governor Dan Alu, Ignorance, insecurity, Jasiri Channels on YouTube, Out-of-school children, Poverty, Sokoto StateNo CommentsViews:

By Saleh Bature Before the debut of the video in which she criticised Ahmed Ali Dan Alu, the governor of Sokoto State, the 18-year-old Hamdiya Cidi Sherif was an obscure local Tik Tok villag... 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

Parting Shot: Kwararafa Owns Nigeria – Jukun Leader Jibrin Amfani

Posted By: adminon: October 28, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Aku Uka, Borno State, Cameroun, Chad, Dr Shekarau Angyu Masa Ibi Kuvyon II, Gov Darius Ishaku, Kwararafa Empire, Niger, Sokoto State, Taraba State, UMBC, WukariNo CommentsViews:

By Adagbo Onoja Later today in Taraba State, someone who was not a state official at the point of death would receive a state burial. That would suggest a lot about his place in popular cons... Read more

Islamizing Nigeria: The Sultan Versus Prof Ben Nwabueze

Posted By: adminon: October 13, 2016In: De-EscalationTags: Abuja, Bayelsa State, Christians, Emir, Ife, Kaduna State, Kano State, Lagos State, Muslims, Ooni, Professor Ben Nwabueze, Sokoto State, Sultan, Umaru Yar’AduaNo CommentsViews:

It could almost be predicted that such a squaring up would come. Professor Ben Nwabueze had made the claim one more time too many and someone was bound to ask for the evidence of Islamisatio... Read more

President Buhari Versus Bukola Saraki: Win – Win At Last?

Posted By: adminon: September 11, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Alafin, APC, Benin city, Bukola Saraki, Dangote, DPD, Emir, IBB nor Obasanjo, Lagos State, Muhammadu Buhari, Oba, Ooni, Sokoto State, SultanNo CommentsViews:

The relationship between Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari and Bukola Saraki, the country’s Senate President appear to have shifted from the phase of winner or loser to the win-win phase... Read more

How Onaiyekan, Others Saved Launching from Degenerating

Posted By: adminon: August 27, 2016In: GovernanceTags: Ahmadu Bello, Atiku Abubakar, Awo, Cardinal John Onaiyekan, Catholic Church, CoCDAGGA, Enugu State, Sokoto State, Tambuwal, ZikNo CommentsViews:

Tactful tackling and finesse gave way to emotional and charged outbursts at the launching of the Centre for Confederation, Democracy and Good Governance in Africa, (CoCDAGGA), at the Yar’Adu... Read more