Hardly any problem exists in this world for which one can say with unassailable certainty, “If you do this one ...
This is a piece years in the making. 15 years to be exact. There is a Hausa word for ‘bucket’ ...
Many other languages are no longer being learned by new generations of children or by new adult speakers; these languages ...
On 10 April, just days ahead of the commencement of Ramadan, I wrote this piece calling upon world leaders who ...
The first time I found out about African spirituality was not in a Social Studies class. That deliberate less than ...
If there is one thing the #Endsars movement can hang its hat on, it’s the fact that despite protesters having ...
The Nigerian Army has ordered its personnel to learn Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba languages. In a statement by Army spokesperson, Brigadier-General ...
Some members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) on Tuesday clashed with the Hausa community in Oyibo local government ...
The Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) has urgd Yorubas and Hausa to ignore the quit notice issued to them by militants ...
Niger Delta militants have reportedly asked Yorubas and Northerners resident in the region to leave before October 1, 2017. According ...
Igbo cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has said the anti-Igbo song circulating in the North was a declaration of war. The ...
by Alexander O. Onukwue Why did the advisers of President Buhari allow a national speech in Hausa language to become ...
On Sunday, President Muhammadu Buhari released an audio message to Nigerian Muslims during the Eid Al-Fitr celebration. This will be ...
About two years ago at his inauguration, the most quoted lines from the speech of President Muhammadu Buhari was, “I ...
Cross River Governor, Ben Ayade, has assured that the Hausa/ Fulani in the state are safe. Speaking through his special ...
by Solomon Osadolo I went grocery shopping this morning and had an interesting chat with the lady who owned the ...
Wife of the Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari, granted a BBC interview that has engaged Nigerians in an active conversation since ...
These are the top five news stories to monitor today 1. There are no poisoned rice in Nigeria The National ...
About three persons were reportedly killed on Wednesday when Hausa and Fulani traders clashed at the Lagos State Abattoir, Agege, The Punch reports. The ...
From the papers this morning – a Tracklist How Fulani, Hausa traders clashed in Lagos – YNaija Ooni of Ife ...
by Femi Fani-Kayode In the northern part of Nigeria two vessels were used as vehicles for conquest by the Fulani: religion ...
Popular social media platform, Facebook, with over 1.8 billion users worldwide is now available in Hausa language. To switch your ...
Many linguists predict that at least half of the world’s 6,000 or so languages will be dead or dying by ...
For a nation that boasts of over 200 tribes and languages, generalization can sometimes be dangerous. To many across the ...
By Bayo Adeyinka My dear Asiwaju, I am compelled to write this open letter to you because of the state ...
The Abia government has announced the arrest of the unidentified Hausa soldier who shot dead an Igbo butcher on Thursday, ...
Hausa and Yoruba traders on Thursday afternoon, were involved in a bloody altercation in the popular Mile 12 market in ...
by Gimba Kakanda It is an insult to repeat the bromide that “Lord Luguard brought us together”. Nope, we didn’t ...
by Kolapo Olapoju I saw the BBM (Blackberry messenger) ‘personal message’ of a friend this morning and it read, ‘Yoruba ...
Fani-Kayode, Omokri bicker over Zuckerberg’s Facebook Hausa comments
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was in Nigeria on Tuesday and Wednesday to meet with technology developers in Lagos. During his ...