Alee Sadeeq Blog

The first time I read his article in the late 1990’s on Daily Trust, I instantly became a fan. What attracted me to him was his flair and forthrightness. Sam never minced his words as he clearly conveys to his reader that he is a true nationalist, a northerner and progressive. A group of mid-career journalists, Kabiru Yusuf, Garba Deen and Sam Nda Isaiah gathered and formed the Daily Trust at a time when the north has virtually no voice in the media circle in Nigeria of that time. Sam was a critical member of those luminaries that gave northern Nigeria a voice, especially with the political permutations, alignments and re-alignment for the unavoidable return to democracy, after the military clearly understood the writings on the wall as the popular agitations and cries for democratic governance swept the globe. Singlehandedly, in 2001 he created the Leadership Newspaper Group that went on to become a household name in the media not only in the north but in the country. Our generati

Malaman mu, walau na kirita ko musulmi, na da hannu wajen rushewar yankin arewa. Arewacin Najeriya tun daga samun yancin kai har zuwa farkon mulkin sojoji, duk da banbance-banbancen addini da kabila, ana zaune lafiya kuma an fara samun habaka. A koyarwa ta manyan addinan mu guda biyu, Malamai su ne wadanda ya kamata su zama masu kariya ga tarbiyya da zamantakewa. Kuma babban aikinsu shi ne na kare gaskiya daga duk inda ta fito, amma sai a ka wayi gari sun kauracewa gaskiya ballantana ma su kare ta. Bari na bada wani gajeren misali. A lokacin mulkin Babangida, matarsa ta yi kokarin kafa hukumar Better life domin wayar da kai da samar da hanyoyin karfafa tattalin arziki. A irin tarukan da aka rika yi a jihohi na kaddamar da wannan shiri, a wata Jiha an zo wajen taron inda a ka gayyato wani babban malami da zai yi addu’a da kuma dan gajeren bayani. Yayin da aka kira wannan malami ya isa wajen lasifika, sai ya juya ya tambayi mutumin da ya gayyato shi “Shin ku na son a soki wannan lamari n

A watan October na shekarar 2005,  Nijeriya da kungiyar Paris Club mai bada basuka ga kasashe sun sanar da yarjejiniyar yafewa Najeriya bashin da ya kai dala biliyan $18 tare da rage kudaden ruwa da ya kai dala biliyan $30 billion. An kammala wannan yarjejeniya bayan Najeriya ta gama biyan karshe na bashinta wanda ya sa aka yafe ragowar a ranar 21 ga watan Afrilu na 2006. Wannan lokaci na da matukar mahimmanci ga Najeriya kuma da a ce mahukunta daga wancan lokacin zuwa yanzu sun yi abinda ya kamata, da tuni kasar ta shiga jerin kasashe 20 masu karfin tattalin arziki . Bayan yafe wannan bashi, bashin kasar ya zama dala biliyan $3.5 kacal, amma bayan shekaru 15 sai ga shi bashin ya sake habaka inda a wannan shekara ta 2020 kamar yadda hukumar da ke kula da basukan kasar (Debt Management office DMO) ta sanar da cewa bashin ya kai Naira Tiriliyan 31.01 (wato dala biliyan $85.9). Matsayin yawan bashi idan an kwatanta da karfin arzikin kasa ya karu zuwa kaso 28%, sama da yadda ya ke a was

  In October 2005,  Nigeria  and the Paris Club announced a final agreement for  debt relief  worth $18 billion dollars and an overall  reduction  of  Nigeria's debt  stock by $30 billion. The deal was completed on April 21, 2006, when  Nigeria  made its final payment and its books were cleared of any Paris Club  debt. It was a huge moment for Nigeria’s economy and should have propelled Nigeria into G20 had we really used this opportunity to invest in our people and economy. In 2006 after the debt relief, our total debt stood at mere $3.5 billion dollars but fifteen years later in 2020 according to the debt management office (DMO) Nigeria’s Total Debt Stock (Foreign & Domestic), as at June 2020 stood at N31.01 trillion ($85.9 billion dollars). Nigeria’s debt to gross domestic product ratio has increased to 28%, it remains lower than the average ratio recorded in sub-Saharan Africa. Between 2015 to 2019, the Nigerian government spent about N34.83 trillion ($88.3 billion dollar

Kiyayya ga musulmi, annabi da kur’ani ba sabon abu ne, domin ya samo asali tun farkon zuwan musulunci sakamakon kakkabe bautar gumaka a Makka da murkushe daulolin Farisa da ta Bizantiyawa, wadanda a wannan lokaci su ne daulolin da ke mulkar duniya. Sakamakon haka sai gungu-gungun kabilu su ka rika barkowa su na shiga musulunci abinda ya tsananta kiyayya ga musulmi. Bayan kafuwar musulunci, addinin ya kai kudancin Asia a farkon karni na 8 lokacin da sojojin musulunci karkashin jagorancin Mohammad Bn Kassim su ka isa gabar Sind a shekarar 711. Haka nan a daidai wannan lokacin ne kuma Tariq Bn Ziyad ya isa Gibraltar (wadda ta samo sunanta daga sunansa a larabce wato Jabar al-Tariq) wadda a yanzu ke karkashin kasar Sifaniya da ke turai. A wajajen karni na 14 kuma daular Usmaniyya (Ottoman empire) ta kafa na ta sansanin a turai da wasu sassa na Rasha a yanzu. Sakamakon daruruwan shekaru na hamayya tsakanin addinan musulunci da na kiristanci a turai, ya haifar da yake-yaken crusade wadanda F

  2010 Arewa! Da zarar ka ji wannan kalma to ka sani fa cewa ‘yan boko da masu mulki na son amfani da ita don ci gaba da danniyar da su ke wa talakawan arewa. Wannan kalma ta samo asali tun kafin turawa su hade kudancin da arewacin Nigeria a 1914. Sahun farko na ‘yan arewa da suka yi fafutukar kare hakkin wannan yanki, irinsu Malam Aminu Kano, Sardauna, Tafawa Balewa, Ribadu da sauransu, sun bar duniya ba tare da sun mallaki wani abin azo a gani ba. Wasunsu ma saboda arewan aka kashe su. Kaucewar su ke da wuya mabiyansu sun yi kokarin kamantawa wajen kamewa daga cin dukiyar jama’a, kuma an tabbatar ba su yi sata ba, irinsu shugaban kasa Gen. Gowon da Murtala. Abin takaici, su kuma su na kaucewa sai aka sami shugabancin Obasanjo da Yar Adua, wadanda daga lokacin su ne aka fara samun shugabanni suna tara kazamar dukiya kuma an halatta cin hanci da rashawa cikin al’amuran gwamnati. An kafa kamfanin karfe na Ajaokuta wanda bayan tsawon shekaru da lakume sama da Naira Biliyan 960 bai samar

  "And we have sent down to thee the book (Qur’an) explaining all things, as a guide, a mercy and glad tidings to the believers" The Qur’an here is claiming everything is explained therein including all the branches of knowledge from Agriculture to Astronomy, Education and Economics, Law and Language, Accountancy and Administration, History and Evolution, Science and Spirituality etc. It would seem an impossible ask for a book one and a half thousand years old to contain subjects that were developed centuries later, but examining the scripture will corroborate the claim. One big problem posed to religious scholars researching the scriptures is their naïve assumptions that everything should be glaringly literal. God told us in Q47:24 "Do they not then earnestly seek to understand the Qur’an, or are their hearts locked by them? It is necessary for people who want to understand the scriptures to employ research in order to understand the verses. Research enables us to use o

Ali Abubakar Sadiq · July 27, 2017 Recipient of Cambridge University award for journalist on science and religion Originally Answered:  Is atheism a belief or a realization? Remove Banner LEGALLY:  Atheism is a belief…a Religion. As painful as it may seem to all the Atheist out there, the Supreme Court of that great land, the land of rising Atheism…America, defined it so. Atheism is awarded all the vital protections and laws as any other religion. Therefore the more angrily an Atheist argues or denies other religious views the more he or she is demonstrating genuine zealousness of that religion, making the angry Atheist a religious zealot. It is ironically a religion that both knows of God’s existence and location, well enough to run from it. For analogy, if someone drops a live hand grenade in a crowd, those who does not know what it is will ignore it like any other tumbling thing on the ground. But for those who knew about a live hand grenade will run like hell away from the place LO