God, it is TEN years! It feels like ten days ago. I lack the poetry, the prose, the drama or, indeed, the erudition, to describe the sense of loss, the nostalgia or the longing I have always felt over the loss of my wife, Binta. But I have always taken solace in the memory that …
Watching ‘Lionheart’, directed by Genevieve Nnaji, has convinced me, once more, that the Nigerian film industry has come of age. I watched it on Netflix, which released it on January 4. Nnaji starred in the lead role as Adaeze, a foreign educated only daughter of an Enugu-based bus passenger tycoon. Adaeze’s father, played by Pete …
Normally I don’t write about my family in the social media, but I’m breaking the rule today. I wish to inform you, my friends and my elders, that my daughter Aisha is going to graduate as a memoriser of the holy Qur’an this morning. To those who don’t know what this means, Aisha can now …
Makala da Malam Ibrahim Sheme ya gabatar a taron duniya mai taken “International Conference On Mamman Shata” wanda Centre for Research in Nigerian Languages and Folklore, da hadin gwiwar Department of Nigerian Languages da Department of Linguistics and Foreign Languages, Jamia’ar Bayero, Kano, ta shirya, a BUK, Kano, a ranar Litinin, 3 ga Satumba, 2018 …
As a rule, I don’t celebrate my birthday. But I help others celebrate theirs through organisation, funding and or participation, when the need arises. Indeed, I have for years been participating in celebrating my children’s birthdays. I hardly care to remember my birthday. I only have an inkling that it falls officially on October 14. …
Wannan rubutun da ke kasa ba nawa ba ne, na Aliyu Ibrahim Kankara ne. Shi ya wallafa abin sa a turakar sa mai suna Taskar Mamman Shata a ranar Alhamis, 16 ga Satumba, 2010 (wato shekara takwas da su ka gabata). A ciki, ya yi bayani kan taron kaddamar da littafin mu na “Shata Ikon …
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My article, “On the Limitations of Freedom”, was published in the Sunday Tide newspaper, Port Harcourt, on June 10, 1990. I was doing my National Youth Service at the Rivers State government-owned media company at the time. I should say, with all sense of responsibility, that I was one of the leading writers in that organisation at …
Na wallafa wannan maƙalar a soshiyal midiya a ranar 27 ga Satumba, 2018:KARAIRAYI 16 A MARTANIN ALIYU IBRAHIM KANKARA Daga IBRAHIM SHEME A ranar Juma’a da ta gabata, jaridar Aminiya ta soma buga hirar da wakilin ta, Bashir Yahuza Malumfashi, ya yi da ni a kan sabon bugun littafin tarihin Alh. (Dr.) Mamman Shata Katsina mai taken …
A ranar Juma’a, 21 ga Satumba, 2018 jaridar Aminiya (ta kamfanin Media Trust Limited) da ke Abuja ta soma buga wata tattaunawa da ta yi da ni. Daga nan ta ci gaba da buga hirar a makwanni biyu masu zuwa, wato a ranakun 28 ga Satumba da 5 ga Oktoba. A rana ta farko, kanun labarin …
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Ƙaunar Muhammadu na nutse ba waiwaye,Na sanya kai na can ciki na dulmiya,Ya hamidan Mahmudu ban da kamar ka. Ya Annabin rahama gare ka na durƙusa,Al-Musɗafa kai ne ka san matuƙar isa,Mai son ka ma ya san isa domin ka. Kaicon mutum ya san ka in bai so ka ba,Kaicon mutum bai so ka don …
