The Fulani in the past few years are in our minds and news for the wrong reason—the banditry that has plagued the Northwest countryside. In the North today, Fulani in popular parlance connotes the cattle Fulani, whom I humorously classified as Fula naturalis in my 1999 column. Unlike their cousins,Continue Reading

The remains of late Alhaji Musa Saleh-Kwankwaso, the father of ex-Kano State Governor, Sen. Rabiu Musa-Kwankwaso has been buried in Kano. Sale-Kwankwaso, who until his death was the Makaman Karaye, died in the early hours of Friday, in Kano, at the age of 93. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)Continue Reading

Leading traditional rulers under the auspices of the Association of Christian Traditional Rulers of Nigeria (AOCTRON) met in Abuja to discuss the state of the association and resolved to restructure and reposition the organization for greater effectiveness in the achievement of its set aims and objectives. They reconstituted the ten-memberContinue Reading

Abubakar Shehu Kwaru The Emir of Misau in Bauchi State, Alhaji Ahmad Sulaiman, has advised his kano counterpart, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero, not to leave any stone unturned in emulating the sterling qualities of leadership of his biological father late Ado Bayero. The Monarch was speaking on Saturday while receivingContinue Reading