JAMB’s 2019 Policy Meeting
“You can never change things in a society by fighting the existing reality. To change something, you can only build a new model that can render the old one obsolete’’. Anonymous It was a unique...
View ArticleIslamic solution to leadership problem
Monologue Like in any other week, the competition for attention by emerging issues, for this column this week is extraordinarily intense. The choice of one of those issues by any columnist must thus...
View ArticleTrump’s World War Plan
This article is an update to of the previous one earlier published in this column on the same subject. The need for the update is due to the diehard nature of the subject in question. Preamble Today,...
View ArticleIn Quest of a ‘Yusuf’
Monologue This article is not new. It was first written and published in this column about one decade ago. Yet, the situation that warranted its writing and publication at that time has not waned a...
View ArticleTola Adeniyi’s exhibition of ignorance
Monologue Today’s article in this column was first published in in October 2017 under the same title. Its repetition here is warranted the reappearance of a notorious article published in the Tribune...
View ArticleDetails of Hajj
Preamble This is another season of Hajj. This season comes up in the month of Dhul Hijjah every year to accentuate the divine authority that brought it to mankind. The word Hajj means aspiration...
View ArticleThe Price of Ignorance
Preamble Peace, in any tempestuous circumstance is not by chance. It is rather a well planned sphere of life with pillars of endurance, tolerance and understanding. The usual template of peace is a...
View ArticleAn orphan’s legacy
Who shares his life’s pure pleasure and works the honest road; who trades with heaping measure and lifts his brother’s load; who turns the wrong down bluntly and lends the right a hand; he dwells in...
View ArticleIslam’s Charter with Christianity
For many Nigerian charlatans who claim to be clerics and preach to their congregations with instigation of hate speeches and unbridled hostility, there are many sources from which to learn a lesson....
View ArticleHappy New Year
Writing an article with a title like ‘Happy New Year’ every year, in a month other than January, may look strange and sound odd to most non-Muslim Nigerian readers. In Nigeria, like in most other...
View ArticleWhen Tomorrow Comes
“Let there become of you a nation that shall call for righteousness, enjoin justice and forbid evil. Such are people that shall surely triumph (in the end)”. Q. 3: 104. This is not just an article. It...
View ArticleMuslims’ use of water
In their deep-rooted research, scientists decided to coin a formula (H2O) and use it to analyze the natural contents of water. From such analysis, they identified the various types of water and their...
View ArticleArabs as impediment to Islam
Monologue Today’s article was first published in this column in 2010 albeit with a different title. Its publication at that time was warranted by an unpredictable pendulum which started to swing...
View ArticleExit of a Cornerstone
“Every soul shall taste death. You shall receive your rewards on the Day of Judgement. Whoever is spared Hell and admitted into Paradise shall profit from his end; for the life of this world is nothing...
View ArticleWhenever the Sultan Speaks…
Leaders are not those who ascribe leadership to themselves by caprice or by whim. Real leaders are those who are sincerely acknowledged as effective leaders by their followers. Sultan Muhammad Sa’ad...
View ArticleIslam in the Eyes of Media
IN response to a particular question coming incessantly to this column from every conceivable angle in Nigeria, yours sincerely decided to recall an article published in this column in 2007 which...
View ArticleAn Orphan’s Legacy
This is Rabi‘ul Awwal, the third month of the Islamic lunar calendar. It is on the 12th day of this month that Muhammad, the son of Abdullah and Aminah who later became a Prophet of Allah, at the age...
View ArticleIran vs The West
No sensible human being ever restricts his itinerary to aparticular habitat; to keep moving and migrating from place to place is the secret of human progress. – Arab poet Preamble Today’s...
View ArticleMuslim Marital Homes
TODAY’s article is not new. It is only being recalled here due to popular demand. When it was first published in this column some years ago, many Muslim couples in Nigeria saw it as a true mirror of...
View ArticleFervour in his burner
In what became another golden feather of honour to the glorious cap a hardworking, honest Nigerian citizen popularly known as ‘Model of Change’, President Muhammadu Buhari displayed a show of...
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