SEPARATED by a distance of approximately 110 kilometers, three individuals Musa Abdullahi (16), Usman Musa (15), and Abubakar Garin-Dawa (17) find themselves bound by a shared destiny marked by suffering and sorrow. These young Almajiri children have become unwilling victims of child labour within the Tsangaya school overseen by Alarama Idi Yusha’u. The Tsangaya schools are the open spaces where children are made to learn and recite the Qur’an.
A Makurdi Chief Magistrates’ Court on Monday ordered that a 20-year old cattle rearer, Musa Abdullahi, be remanded in a correctional centre for allegedly kidnapping and raping a 13-year old girl. Abdullahi who lives in Ichama Community in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue, was charged with criminal conspiracy, terrorism, abduction, open grazing and rape.
Abdullahi who lives in Ichama Community in Ogbadibo Local Government Area of Benue, was charged with criminal conspiracy, terrorism, abduction, open grazing and rape.
The Katsina State Government has said that it will soon pass a law, establishing a Zakkat and Waqaf Commission as an agency in the State Civil Service.
Expect rainy season proper this week – Don ‘Mosquitos, butterflies good signs’ ‘Plant resistant crops’ Farmers in the six North East states of Adamawa, Borno, Yobe, Bauchi, Taraba and Gombe have said that they are perturbed by the current prolonged dry spell occasioned by hot dry weather which is threatening reduction in agricultural output over…