Qosim Suleiman

Thrilled! Made it into the #TFYoungJournalist award shortlist this year.

When it comes to matters of faith, the strongest message is not mockery, but example. If you believe in your religion, live it, share its beauty, its values, its kindness. Talk about what it has done for you, what it teaches about love, patience, forgiveness, and purpose. That’s how hearts are truly moved. Because when people see light in what you believe, they can be drawn to it naturally—without pressure, without insults, and without tearing others down. Whether Muslim or Christian, our faith should be represented with dignity. We don’t strengthen our truth by attacking another person’s belief; we strengthen it by showing the best version of it. Let your words invite, not divide.

These “wanted” posters they make and publicize only aim to do one thing. A humiliation ritual. A reminder to the person on the poster that they are not untouchable by their benefactors. Nothing to do with seeking justice. It’s all a show.

People think whenever I speak about insecurity, I’m being one sided because they only hear the parts that challenge their bias. What many of you don’t know is that I actually worked in Katsina on a conflict mitigation program, traveling across dangerous conflict zones to conduct trainings and dialogue sessions for both Fulani herders and Hausa farmers. I have been to places like Dan Musa, Jibia, Kankara, Ketare, Batsari, and Wagini, areas many people only know from headlines about bandit attacks, kidnappings, and violence. Yet we still entered these communities because peace building cannot happen from social media debates alone. I have sat with families who lost loved ones. I have listened to farmers afraid to return to their lands, and herders afraid of revenge attacks and cattle rustling. When you hear pain from both sides face to face, you stop seeing insecurity as a tribal competition and start seeing it as a human tragedy. So when I speak against killings, banditry, or injustice, it is not because I’m one sided. It is because I have seen firsthand what insecurity does to ordinary people, regardless of tribe or religion. Nigeria will never heal if every conversation about insecurity becomes “protect our side” instead of protecting innocent lives.

This is how you know what an administration prioritises. For a country of over 200million people. It's up to us to decide what kind of people we want in government. But we can't afford a government that can't fund healthcare and other critical sectors.

PAT Expansion📢 Since 2017, CJID #PressAttackTracker (PAT) has documented attacks against journalists in Nigeria, with records dating back to 1986. It now includes data on attacks against journalists in additional West African countries. Access it here: pressattack.africa/tracker

@AfUncensored For context this was the detailed ROR we sent 12 days before publication of our #ErrorByDesign youtube.com/watch?v=2ylELc…

This is scandalous! It will be great if Wike can list the press people in FCT who have received lands from the government.

A free press remains essential to both democracy and development.📌 We're sharing reflections from CJID staff across the region on what press freedom means, why it matters, and what's at stake when the press is constrained. #PressFreedom

no need to impose birth control restrictions.. but criminalize parental neglect.. make it the worst conceivable offense

My own totalitarian fantasy is of one day running a huge labour camp where fathers of Arewa’s abandoned children are forced to work to pay for the state having to take responsibility for their children. Of course, I will still call myself a free-market capitalist.

For @Dataphyte, I collated data from @RSF_en and @PressAttackAfr to visually explain Nigeria's press freedom challenges through data. The chart covered issues faced, the perpetrators of press attacks, and laws that have tightened #pressfreedom. dataphyte.com/topic/security…

This is crazy! When an employer brings up “husbands complaining” in an interview, they are not assessing your capability anymore. They are projecting assumptions about your personal life onto your career. That crosses into BIAS, and should fall under discrimination linked to sex or marital status in how decisions are made.

Link: ripplesnigeria.com/investigation-…

The Smart School Initiative has been widely commended as a game changer. The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) Office and Representative in Nigeria, Jean‑Paul Ngome Abiaga was quoted as describing it as

i’ve spent the past 7 months attempting to reconstruct and understand the strategy with which the boko haram army was formed. i’ve gone over more than 100 archival materials, spoken to a few first-generation members of the terror group, and victims. it’ll be out on wednesday!

You wouldn’t take career advice from someone without a notable track record. But you’ll take dating and/or marital advice from people without any notable successful marriages The internet is an interesting place

The intellectual depth and explanatory power of the video essay, “Performing Forever: Wedding to Celebrity Pipeline & Romantic Capitalism” reminds me of why we need as many cerebral Nigerian sociologists as possible! Scholar gidi ni Political Baby 👏🏾 youtu.be/K1SSMv4zyX4?si…

@winexviv @Nedumcity_ @ruffydfire @olorunwababs @AfiaTvOfficial @gijnAfrica link: ripplesnigeria.com/investigation-…

Since coming on board as governor, Peter Mbah has constantly maintained that his administration will continue to prioritise the welfare and education of children in the state to give them a decent future. His budgetary allocations to the sector have shown this.

While the Enugu State government is committing billions of naira to the construction of new “Smart Schools,” pupils and teachers in existing primary schools continue to learn in unsafe and degrading conditions.