Baban Zarah

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[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

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[Inside the Haramain @insharifain]

The Kiswah of the Ka’bah is about to be replaced

[Meenah @meenah_ado]

We used to have sheikhs and elders in the north before. Now, we are just left with hungry people and the ones that don’t practice what they preach.

[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

@OOlusore @farouk_speaks I swear...my last school fees in ABU Zaria Undergrad 2010/2011 session was N16,750

[Abdool Moh. @abdool_moh]

“We are mobilizing protests across Northern states, then we will proceed to Abuja with our beds and Garri and stay there until Tinubu listens to us and take urgent action to solve our problems.” Enough is Enough!

- Northern Actor Sadiq Sani Sadiq

[_Aisha🌹 @shoshu_umar]

Southerners are protesting against bad governance, but we Northerners are busy with gossip. Like it or not, we’re the ones holding Nigeria back.

[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

@shoshu_umar @NuumanAshaka I swear💯

[Rukayya, ANIPR 🤭 @hayateey1]

Ban son nayi doguwar magana amma how can you reintegrate people who have murdered numerous innocent souls back into the society? What is the rationale behind it? Perhaps there is a wisdom in it that only security experts can explain. Amma dai wannan abu beyi mun ba sam.

[Gimba Kakanda @gimbakakanda]

Major-General Rabe Abubakar: The Wounds We Share

I have just read the statement by the Katsina State Government confirming the passing of Major-General Rabe Abubakar, rtd, a former military spokesman, while in captivity. Even though the statement says that “the deceased… died a natural death from complications of diabetes and hypertension,” this does not erase the horror of the circumstances in which he spent his final days. What haunts us is not only the manner of his passing, but the tragedy of a life of service ending in the hands of criminals who have exploited the dysfunctions of our society.

What happened to the General is a tragedy of immeasurable dimension. To return from a career that required putting one’s life on the line for one’s country, only to become a captive of ragtag criminals, is a fate no patriot deserves. It is a cruel reminder that this weather of insecurity is one we all breathe and feel. It bears our names, our faces, our families, and the histories of service behind its victims.

There is no dignified way to avoid the truth that, as a nation and as a government, we have let down the General and many others who have met similar fates. This does not take away from the efforts I know were ongoing to secure his release or rescue, nor from the renewed operations and proactive steps being taken to confront these criminal networks. But grief must never be managed with denial. Something more radical, more coordinated, and more sustained must be done to break this chain of tragic events. Contrary to the assumptions of some, nobody is immune.

What happened to the General is a cautionary tale for all of us in government today. The General, who once served in one of the most protected institutions in the country, could never have imagined such an ending. That is why it remains baffling when anyone assumes that those in public office are insulated from the failures and fractures of the nation. The same roads, the same communities, the same future, and the same consequences await us all.

As a northerner, I am doubly troubled by the direction in which our region has been dragged. No honest person can claim ignorance of how we got here. If we are even more honest, we must admit that the untrained, abandoned, and hopeless children on our streets are being turned into cannon fodder for present and future dysfunctions. Even if banditry and terrorism are defeated, a vulnerable demographic left without education, discipline, opportunity, or hope will remain available for other invidious agendas against the Nigerian state.

This is the part that should frighten us most. We once spoke of building human capital. Today, too many of our people are trapped in the desperate arithmetic of survival.

The government has the primary and non-negotiable responsibility to protect lives and property. But no government policy, however well designed, can fully overcome a society that refuses to confront parental irresponsibility, the abandonment of children, hostility to education in some communities, and the casual normalisation of neglect. Security is not sustained by bullets alone. It is sustained by schools, families, values, livelihoods, justice, and a population civilised enough to reject the temptations of nihilism.

And yet, we cannot afford to lose hope. Despair is exactly what these criminals want to manufacture. They want citizens to stop believing in the possibility of order, to stop trusting the state, and to stop imagining a country that can still be rescued. We must refuse them that victory. We must mourn the dead, demand better from the living, and insist that the Nigerian state still has the duty and capacity to reclaim every inch of its authority.

May Allah forgive him, grant him Aljannatul Firdaus, and comfort his family. My condolences also go to all families who have lost loved ones to this madness. May their grief not be in vain, and may our country find the courage to end this tragedy.

[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

@Elsaeed_AM You're the bastard disturbing us with insignificant topic in the midst of chaos in the country. Gettat my friend!!

[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

I swear i agree with the submission that Arewa is the problem of Nigeria. In all these chaos, majority of our young people are more concerned with other people's marital problems.

They're kidnapping and killing people on a daily, but y'all are more concerned with this rubbish

[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

@yazidbee @Waspapping_ 😂🤣

[UNCLE DEJI™️ @DejiAdesogan]

You shared a doctored video thinking no consequences thereafter, since some get away with such in the past. Anyway, welcome to Yellow House for a brain reset.

Those engagement on the doctored video won’t even save him from answering questions

Again, use social media responsibly

[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

@Eljaph 😂🤣

[UNCLE DEJI™️ @DejiAdesogan]

If you share that AI doctored video, you can be prosecuted for it. Cybercrime law will be your nightmare. Get a sound lawyer

[UNCLE DEJI™️ @DejiAdesogan]

The so-called viral doctored video of VDM abusing President Tinubu was clearly AI-generated. Presidential Spox Oga Bayo Onanuga ought to have taken his time to do due diligence before responding angrily to VDM that didn’t even post doctored video on his pages.

Lesson: Don’t rush

[Slim @onu_slim]

Bayo Onanuga went on X to threaten VDM over a fake Tinubu audio. One problem: VDM never posted it. Someone doctored his video and inserted the AI audio. Premium Times confirmed it. Onanuga didn’t verify anything. He just saw “VDM” and got fired up. This is the quality of brain managing presidential communication in Nigeria in 2026.

[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

@MasterBolaji @aonanuga1956 All these titles on your profile, but you no get sense

[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

@Waspapping_ They cant arrest him cuz he never posted that...the original video is still on his Instagram. Someone edited the video and added the fake audio

[Baban Zarah @mistersoms]

@Dee_9889 @BashirAhmaad Exactly, the real video is still on his Instagram. I can't believe people actually believe the rubbish cut and join video