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From Shared Desks to Separate Worlds: The Price of Educational Apartheid

Daily Dispatch November 2, 2025

By Hassan Gimba In traditional Nigeria, especially in the Muslim North, where I can confidently say I know a thing or two, segregation was minimal. Communities were integrated, with children of various social backgrounds associating freely. This social cohesion, evident from history and

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Dr Madu, the Shamaki of Fika, who became a doctor through providence

Daily Dispatch October 26, 2025

By Hassan Gimba Locally known as Dr Madu in his youth and later more commonly addressed as Dr Mamman, Dr Madu was an Iroko tree of a man, full of compassion and a burning desire to spread health wherever he found himself. His six-foot-three-inch height and athletic build — which a champion heavyweight boxer would […]

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Of Nigeria, False Friends and True Dangers: A Call for Vigilance

Daily Dispatch October 19, 2025

By Hassan Gimba I have a confession. Vice President Kashim Shettima has never been my man. I have never quite taken to him. Not that I hate the man some want to see as the Cicero of our time. But it is also not that I exactly dig the man others prefer to see as […]

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I,too, must get American in-laws, the efficacy of prayers and other matters,

Daily Dispatch October 5, 2025

By Hassan Gimba (2) Whoever tells you prayers don’t work does not know nothing! Kai, this speaking like a Yankee wannabe has pushed me off my regular lane. By the way, who has even observed that – because of this fixation with wanting to get an American-branded new wife and parents-in-law, which will lead to American kids, has made me

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I, too, must get American in-laws, the efficacy of prayers and other matters

Daily Dispatch September 28, 2025

By Hassan Gimba (1) Contemplate this: I am someone born in Kaduna just after Nigeria was born, cut my teeth in the undulating plains of Fika, ran around on the cloud-caressing plateaux of Gembu where I started my primary education but was raised in the serene, motherly town of Maiduguri, even though I was told […]

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The healing power of true friendship

Daily Dispatch September 21, 2025

By Hassan Gimba I have been under the weather for the past six weeks – a period during which I have not gone to my office. Though being visible almost always online may suggest otherwise, I do mean it in the literal sense. And ironically, what dipped me under the weather is the weather itself. […]