THE FIRE AND BICYCLE INCIDENTS
There are two incidents that happened at my tender age while I was growing up that I've been…
There are two incidents that happened at my tender age while I was growing up that I've been…
It's five long years today since my cousin, Aminu Mu'azu, died. He had been ill for some…
Whenever I find myself in Kano, I find it more convenient and less stressful to park my car som…
No one would think it to look at them, but they're twins - fraternal twins. They even studie…
Facebook has done it again! It has reunited me with a family I lived with for several years in K…
When I started work at the Katsina State Television, KTTV, I was ushered into the office of the …
Laila Ahmad is my 15 year old Senior Secondary School One (SS1) daughter who, yesterday, indicat…
Alhamdu lillah! All praise is to Allah, the Lord Of The CreationDr. Mauludatu Ahmad, the third d…
Sometimes non-indigenes or settlers are a blessing to the community in which they live. But some…
The Tsohuwar Kasuwa Nadabo Community Development Association and the Nadabo Primary School Bakor…
I wonder why people hate obeying simple rules... I was stopped by a red light at a roundabout a…
Teaching is, indeed, a noble profession. It’s not every time that teachers have to wait to get t…
Saturday, September 18, 2020, will go down in history as, probably, one of Umar and Abdullahi Co…
I got fed up with the teaching profession after a dose of it for eight years. During those long …
The more your hopes for a better Nigeria rise the further they're quickly dashed. You go to …
Meet my fraternal twins, Nasir and Laila, born 27 days apart, by different mothers. Nasir was s…
This tree, in front of some shops attached to my father's house in Bakori, Katsina State, is…
Alhamdu lillah! I married off my daughter, Dr. Mauludatu Ahmad, today, without fanfare, without …
In 2008, I was travelling to the US to attend the NAB Radio Show, which was taking place at Aust…
Yesterday, we started reaping the fruits of our labor when our daughter, Dr. Mauludatu Ahmad, wa…
We first met sixteen years ago and within five months of our first meeting, we were married. I s…
A friend of mine, Kabir Yar'adua, alias "Infront", a fellow retiree, has decided t…
I was just relaxing in front of my late grandfather's house after I had come out of the mosq…
We don't often realize how our children become urbanized until something comes up. The othe…
Wow! This memorable picture, taken in 1984, was sent to me by my friend and colleague, Abdusalam…
After I had gained admission for a Ph.D program, I had to abandon it after seven years because o…
During my primary school days, I had the privilege of having three sets of classmates. I don…
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihir raji'un! One of my referees, Professor Haruna Wakili, is dead!…
I'm so so happy I decided to begin this piece with a few stanzas from the late Hausa song l…
In my more than fifty odd years of life I have come to acquire many nicknames, most of which we…
Awesome! I just discovered this report card in my archives. It's for class 5, 3rd term, 1973…
Much as we want to blame the rich for not doing enough to assist the poor, we must also lay part…
My late father, Alhaji Abdulkadir Barau, was born in 1926, in Tandama, Ɗanja Local Government Ar…