Salute to a Woman of Substance: Hajiya (Dr) Hafsatu AbdulWaheed, D.Litt., Honoris causa
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu She has done it again. She first did it in 1974/80. In 2024, she repeated it. The feat that no female northern Nigerian has ever…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu She has done it again. She first did it in 1974/80. In 2024, she repeated it. The feat that no female northern Nigerian has ever…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu You might have remembered the post. March 8, 2023, to be precise. It was on International Women's Day in 2023. It was about Sadiq, the…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu The recent Facebook ribbing about the number of professors from states and localities in various northern cities with universities reminds me of the male adolescent…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu An industry is a system made up of interconnecting parts that synchronise together to create a perfect dynamic and functional entity. However, there is a…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu It is not every day that a series of coincidental events converge. Like the passage of Haley’s Comet, these events happen only once in one’s…
By Bilyamin Abdulmumin When the former president Muhammadu Buhari’s praise singer Dauda Adamu Abdullahi Kahutu (Rarara), held a media conference some time ago, he stirred up the hornet's nest. A press conference…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu Birnin Kudu. The 1960s. An incredibly wonderful town. Still a wonderful town! Even more, wonderful, friendly people. So far away from Kano that a whole…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu I was tagged in a Facebook thread lamenting the perceptions of Hausa popular culture studies by Muhsin Ibrahim on how such a course of action…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu The painting evoked memories. And a sense of scholastic pride. Pride in being part of a process that has generated centuries of excellence. And today…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu I was never lucky enough to come under Yusuf Bala Usman’s tutelage while I was a student at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria, from 1976…