Scholars’ Week
This is the week in which Nigeria’s renowned ‘Citadel of knowledge Emeritus’, popularly known as Markaz, Agege, celebrates scholarship in full regarlia in the month of May, every year. In the first...
View ArticleSensitisation message towards Ramadan
All praise is due to Almighty Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful and the Disposer of all affairs. May His peace and benediction be showered on the soul our exemplary prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon...
View ArticleAlert! Fake muslim group emerges
Preamble Today’s article is starting with apology to the readers of ‘The Message’ for the inability of their beloved column to float on this page last Friday. It was due to a fortuitous failure of...
View ArticleGuest of all seasons
Preamble To most pious Muslims around the world, the month of Ramadan is Allah’s special blessing with which to rescue mankind from the dragnet of Satan. This blessed month has always come to the earth...
View ArticleThe Ramadan Family
Preamble At no time in the life of man can the true nature of human existence be more manifest than in Ramadan. It is in this sacred month that Muslims reflect mostly on this. Some people fasted...
View ArticleBiafra: The unchangeable history
This was not the article meant for this column today. The original plan was to continue the theological analysis of Ramadan in continuation of last Friday’s article. But since the circumstances of life...
View ArticleNot Prof Fafunwa we knew
“While man’s desires and aspirations stir, he cannot choose but err; yet in his erring journey through the night, instinctively, he travels towards the light.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Preamble This...
View ArticleBiafra: Nuruddeen Lemu’s posting
Yoruba language, being a phonemic language written in morphemic script, may not be philologically rich in vocabulary and grammar. Its adopted script may may have limited its ambition to spread beyond...
View ArticleSDG: The turning of the screw
In journalism, what makes news are uncommon incidents in uncommon places at uncommon times. These days, most news stories, are rather sad than pleasant because of their common identities. The...
View ArticleLagos govt, scholars mourn Sheikh Zuglool
Lagos State government and some renowned Islamic scholars have paid glowing tributes to the founder and Mudir of Dharu-Dawa-Wal Irshad in Isolo, Lagos, Sheikh Mustapha Sanusi Zuglool. The eminent...
View ArticleZamzam @ UI
A Nigerian foremost University popularly called Premier University (the University of Ibadan) will be 70 years in 2018. Yet, despite its popularity and age, this highly revered institution has...
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 Article1979 in contemporary history
Today, ‘The Message’ chooses to migrate psychologically from the insanity of Nigeria’s political/ religious rigmarole to the global political tempest if only for a change. After all, elasticity has its...
View ArticlePa Abbas: A father’s legacy
“And your Lord has decreed that you should worship none except Him and be kind to your parents (especially) when one or both of them attain old age. Do not ever bully on them or shun them. Address them...
View ArticleThe Prophet’s medicine
Preamble This article is a follow up to that of last Friday in which the bee was described as ‘The Insect that Heals’. Both articles are a deliberate diversion of readers’ attention from the economic...
View ArticleNigeria: Islamisation or Christianisation?
Preamble Two monotous and meaningless words are frequently used mischievously in Nigeria. One is Islamization. The other is maginalization. The one is used religiously while the other is used...
View ArticleWhen tomorrow comes
Preamble This is not just an article. It is rather a letter of appeal coming to Nigerian politicians from the pulpit of ‘The Message’ column. Similar letters were written in this column some years ago...
View ArticleTo where from Here?
”…And beware of a calamity that may afflict not only the transgressors amongst you to the exclusion of others and know that Allah’s retribution can be severe”. Q. 8:25 Preamble...
View ArticleRestructuring: The cry of Owl
“And fear a calamity that may afflict not only those who engineered it but also the innocent ones who had no hands in its engineering, and be assured that Allah’s punishment can be very severe.”...
View ArticleTipple IT’s 4th International Conference
“Seek knowledge even if it will take you to China.” Hadith Preamble It was a unique gathering of who is who intellectual at Fountain University, Osogbo, Osun State where...
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