After four seasons as the team’s coach, seasoned Nigerian coach Aliyu Zubair has resigned from his position. The former Kwara United coach’s contract with Gombe United terminated after the conclusion of the last Nigerian Professional Football League season, and he made the decision to leave. Recall that Aliyu Zubair gained the support of the Gombe…
Experienced Nigerian gaffer Aliyu Zubair has left his position as the coach of Gombe United after four seasons in charge of the team. His contract at Gombe United expired at the end of the outgone Nigerian Professional Football League season, and the former Kwara United coach decided to walk away. It will be recalled that
Stories from the life of Hajiya Gambo Sawaba, one of northern Nigeria’s most important female political activists, who was born on this day in 1933, have become the stuff of folklore.
According to one, her fighting spirit was evident when, as a young girl growing up in northern Nigeria in the 1930s and 40s, she would always intervene in other children’s fights on the side of the loser, telling them: “I have bought this fight from you”, before carrying on the scuffle.
The fights came frequently, and her clothes would inevitably get torn. So, the story goes, in order to minimise the frequency with which she would have to replace her daughter’s damaged dresses, Sawaba’s mother, Malama Fatima, resorted to making them out of tarpaulin.