A tectonic shift is taking place right now in much of Europe’s mass media industry. The traditional media as they are known globally – print edition newspapers and magazines, as well as television and transistor radio – are transmuting into digital versions that reach out to audiences that were hitherto contemplated only in fairy tales …
What do you do to a child that has gone deliberately bad? Get a cane, of course, and give them a whacking on the bottom. But a Hausa saying tells you, “Hannun ka ba ya rubewa ka yanke ka yar,” i.e. you don’t cut off your hand and throw it away just because it is …
Book: Northern Women Development: A Focus on Women in Northern NigeriaAuthor: Hajara Muhammad KabirPages: 455Publishers: Print Serve, LagosDate: 2010 Women are over half of the world’s population, yet they do two-thirds of the world’s work, earn one-tenth of the world’s income, and own less than one hundredth of the world’s poverty.– United Nations It is no …
MEND is not a terrorist organisation- President Jonathan For a week now, the refrain in Nigeria has been about who to blame for the October 1 bombings in Abuja in which 16 persons were killed. Days before the criminal act, the Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta (MEND) had issued a warning that it …
The creme de la creme of the Northern society is expected to grace the launch of a book written in honour of well known BBC Hausa reporter in Nigeria, the late Alhaji Adamu Yusuf, in Kaduna on Sunday, October 3, 2010. Authored by a journalist, Kabir Haruna Alfa, the book is titled Broadcast Media and Development in Northern …
Yesterday, Nigeria celebrated its 50th anniversary as an independent nation. Born 46 years before 1960, it was formed by the British colonialists when they amalgamated their Protectorate of Southern Nigeria and Protectorate of Northern Nigeria. Since 1960, the country has witnessed a lot of things to be happy about, warts and all. At least, it …
What type of children are we parents producing these days? Do we take responsibility for what they become and what they do in the society? If they turn out to be saints or demons, do we say it is due to our handling? These questions have run riot in my mind for a long time. …
Until the cancellation of the event two days ago, the first known formal burning of the holy Qur’an would have taken place today. The world had been in tenterhooks ever since the event was first announced on Facebook recently with a page entitled “International Burn A Qur’an Day.” The event, organised by a”small” church known …
It is virtually old school to offer the worn-out truism that one of the greatest problems confronting Nigeria is the soaring unemployment rate or that the situation has been a key contributor to the incessant communal violence in the country in recent years. What is new is a powerful message from a British Council-sponsored report …
In this piece, ABDULAZIZ ABDULAZIZ writes on the recent case of an alleged illicit sex affair between the director general of Kano State Censorship Board, Malam Abubakar Rabo Abdulkareem, and a minor. He raises questions from both ends of the story. Efforts were allegedly made to ‘kill’ the story but it stubbornly fizzled out and …
