It is not possible to have read everything written on the death of Prof Abdullahi Mahdi but it may not be untrue to say more attention went to his flower flavouring of ABU, Zaria campus duri... Read more
The public presentation later today of Prof Anthony Asiwaju’s Bridging African Boundaries: Cross-Border Areas and Regional Integration in Comparative History and Policy Advocacy presents an... Read more
Many would find it difficult to, on the face of it, make a connection between the twosome. But there are many things that connects them, separated as they seem by career line, location and c... Read more
By Ambassador Usman Sarki The author, a former Deputy Permanent Representative of Nigeria to the United Nations in New York and a product of the ‘Zaria School of History’ and its nationalist... Read more
Dr. Philip Akpen’s book, Infrastructures and Urban Amenities in Colonial Northern Nigeria is an additionally interesting book, coming after Historians are still not sure if there is History... Read more
Officially, he died of Hepatitis B infection. That is what our stethoscope wielding friends would say. They could be right but such a verdict doesn’t tell us the context in which an infectio... Read more
It would not be surprising if theirs turned out the most welcome marriage ceremony in the area this season. The bride in particular and the bridegroom. All two are products of well known fam... Read more
Although it remains a big puzzle where Nigerians got this idea that reading History in school, irrespective of the Historiographical narrative, will make the products to have historical awar... Read more
He is Solomon Sylvester Boyi but he is also known and called Swanta, Kagoro language for something like ‘welcome to the world’. In case the name doesn’t strike you quickly, think back to Ahm... Read more
The Secret of the 1914 Amalgamation – Comrade Reuben Ziri By Adagbo ONOJA There is a sense in which Reuben Ziri is a study in contradictions. When he entered the Department of History at Ahm... Read more
