Academic Travails: 17 hours for 20 minutes!
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu The academic world will never cease to amaze me. Let us look at just one example. Take an invitation to present a paper at an…
By Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu The academic world will never cease to amaze me. Let us look at just one example. Take an invitation to present a paper at an…
Hangzhou Hikvision Digital Technology Co., Ltd., often shortened to Hikvision, is a Chinese state-owned manufacturer and supplier of video surveillance equipment for civilian and military purposes, headquartered in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.…
By Aliyu Yakubu Yusuf In the not too distant past, there was a widespread belief that footballers of northern Nigerian (read: Hausa-Muslims) extraction are serially marginalised when it comes to…
By A. F. Sesay As young Africans, we grew up thinking if you are violent then you are evil. Yet, we have been victims of violence, right from the time…
By A. F. Sesay When I was young I had a pure heart, bright eyes and a sparkling smile. All I wanted then was to grow up quickly and set…
By Muhammad Sabiu A Nairobi man in Kenya identified as Joseph Njuguna, who allegedly set his own mother’s home on fire over her refusal to finish cooking food on time,…
Colleagues and former students of Abdulrazak Gurnah, from the Department of English and Literary Studies, Bayero University, Kano, congratulate him, as he emerged this year's winner of the prestigious Nobel…
By Ibrahiym A. El-Caleel Saner climes aren’t saner climes for nothing. They seem to have broader perspectives on life. They acknowledge success wherever it is and not getting unnecessarily fixated…
By Aliyu Yakubu Yusuf The curtains have fallen following yet another gripping edition of Olympic football games. Brazil has successfully defended the crown they won at home four years previously.…
South African problem is the exact replica of black man's disease. It is the reason why black Africa will never develop. Look at North Africa; Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Algeria,…