In Search of a ‘Yusuf’
Preamble This world is a dramatic entity mysteriously coded in parables. Every living thing therein sees it and relates to it according to its own nature of existence. It takes history to decode it...
View ArticleThe Hijab saga in Osun State
There are good men in every land; the tree of life has many branches and roots; let not the topmost twig presume to think that it alone has sprung from the mother earth; we did not choose our races by...
View ArticleHijab: Nigeria’s Media Conspiracy
“The relationship of religion to Truth is like that of a menu to a meal. By describing the meal as best as it can, the menu points to something beyond itself. When we use the menu as a guide to the...
View ArticleWhat do the South-West Media Want?
So much for Objective Journalism! Don’t bother to look for it here—not under any byline I can think of. With the possible exception of things like box scores, race results, and stock market...
View Article9/11: FBI’s Final Report
Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home (today). As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone...
View Article9/11: FBI’s Final Report
Osama is not a product of Pakistan or Afghanistan. He is a creation of America. Thanks to America, Osama is in every home (today). As a military man, I know you can never fight and win against someone...
View ArticleWho owns the Schools?
Preamble Experiences of life keep informing us of what people and institutions really are against what they are presumed to be. It is quite unfortunate that Africans especially Nigerians whose...
View ArticleWho owns the schools? II
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we (should) fail to protest (against injustice).” By Elie Wiesel Preamble This is one of the very...
View ArticleDetails of Hajj
Preamble This is the season of Hajj. It comes up in the month of Dhul Hijjah every year. Hajj means aspiration towards a higher pedestal in spirituality. It is, divinely, a pillar of Islam made...
View ArticleThe NSCIA’s Deputy President-General
Preamble Habits die hard. They come with human nature and grow with human nature. They are the symbolic traits with which human personalities are identified and labeled in any society. Great people are...
View ArticleA decade of royalty and faith
Preamble To some people, the number of years spent on earth matters much more than anything else. To some others, life is not much about longevity as it is about quality. Believers in the earlier...
View ArticleA festival in despair
Preamble This article was meant for publication in this column last Friday. It was meant to prepare the minds of Nigerian Muslims for last Monday’s Eid-il-Adha. But due to problem of contact especially...
View ArticleOpium of a nation
Preamble History is an invisible object with two wings flying across generations in time and in space. One wing is positive, the other is negative. With history, the present becomes the heritage of the...
View ArticleWhen tomorrow comes
Preamble This is supposed to be a letter of appeal coming to Nigerian politicians from the pulpit of ‘The Message’ column. A similar letter was written in this column about four years ago to this same...
View ArticleHow Saudi prevented Hajj fatalities
Several Nigerian Muslim families wore melancholic looks around this time, last year. The sad experience was occasioned by the twin tragedies recorded in the holy city of Mecca, almost in quick...
View ArticleEkiti: A visit by deputation
Preamble It was a trip by deputation penultimate Friday and Saturday. His Eminence, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar CFR, mni, the Sultan of Sokoto and President General of Nigerian Supreme Council for...
View ArticleWithout a Leader like Him…?
Preamble All roads, national and international, led to Sokoto last Wednesday. The Caliphate city became like a Makkah of sort as thousands of people from near and far trooped into it. The occasion was...
View ArticleThe seed of terror
Preamble “Nights are pregnant. They give birth to wonders in the days. What we look is not what we see. Thus, our focus becomes dimmer and dimmer as the days and nights of life roll out spirally but...
View ArticleMosque leadership & management
The title of today’s article in this column is not the coinage of yours sincerely. It is rather an adaptation of the title of a book recently published by the University of Lagos. The book was jointly...
View ArticleIslam and global warming
“We have not left anything untouched in the Book (Qur’an). Then unto their Lord shall all be reassembled” Q. 6:38. PREAMBLE The Allah’s last revelation to mankind called the Qur’an is the ultimate...
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