NORTHERN NIGERIA

Poor, rich North

Poor, rich North

By Hakeem Baba-Ahmed I published this material almost exactly ten years ago. If you read it, you will see that it was a lamentation over the state of the North as I saw it in 2013. A friend, Abdulrauf Aliu, drew my attention to it two days ago. Yesterday was the first time I read the […]
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CONFLICTS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: 13 years of civil rule in perspective

CONFLICTS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: 13 years of civil rule in perspective

Hausa community was divided into Hausa ‘bokwa’ and Hausa “banza”, under the powerful rulers, who ruled according to custom and tradition, but the introduction of Islamic religion in the region “in the twelfth or thirteen century”, and its eventual firm root, following fresh band of Muslim Wangara and Fulani traders and scholars, who entered the land from Mali in the fourteenth century, as well the first royal convert which occurred, when Ali Yaji B. Tsamia, the Sarki or king of Kano converted in the fourteenth century, opened a new chapter in the land.

CONFLICTS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: 13 years of civil rule in perspective

CONFLICTS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: 13 years of civil rule in perspective

The Nigerian state is aggressively in search for peace, particularly in the North as peace has eroded most parts of the region. People and government appear inestimably confused on how to reassert sanity/ order in that milieu. Hence, protractions of violence especially in the last 13 years of civil rule.