SQUASH – Episode 7: The Bandit Paradise and The Double-Cross General The conditions were better here in the wilderness than at the Islamic school. We ate wild game, drank fresh cow milk, ate choice food, and had access to kidnapped women. Danlami came often. He had his private helicopter pad. Each time he comes for a check-up on the Mansions, he is welcomed like a king. As a field marshal for the bandit military, he had the highest rank among the outlaws of the Sahara. The government knew him as a retired army general but the bandits called him the messiah of the Sahara. Just as he promised, h ..read more

I stared at the crowd of bandits assembled before me in bewilderment. There were more than ten thousand foot soldiers who know how to shoot a fly at 200 meters from their position. Some of these men were fortified against any form of sharp objects and it is rumoured that bullets avoid them. They started a near-silent parade and formed five groups of about two thousand men in each group…and went in five directions on four queues per group. As I watched one of the groups from a distance, a large gate from beneath the soil opened upwards while they marched towards it…after some time, they all ent ..read more

SQUASH – Episode 5: The Resuscitated Virgin and the Bandit Mole. I lay in the pool of blood that leaked out of the deep hole close to my shoulder. I was half dead and it was like my soul was trying to leave my body. I was drifting in and out of consciousness. The cold flesh on my bones felt like they were not my own. I saw dimly as a blanket covered me while my body finally shut down. When I woke up, I was looking up at sliced two-inch by two-inch palm tree wooden frames of what made up the scaffold of a thatch roof. As I tried to turn to my left towards the light, I felt a sharp pain in my sh ..read more

SQUASH – Episode 4: The Virgins of the Sahara Three weeks before we saw Ali at the bandit training camp in North Africa, Danlami issued a command to Kadiri. Danlami, your assignment is to raid and kidnap young ladies and girls from any Government girl’s secondary school in the north and transfer them by any means necessary to the camp in Mauritania. Danlami had created child trafficking routes within the Sahara and it was easy to abduct and transport as many girls as bandit vehicles and lorries could carry. The goal was to create a market in the Sahara where young virgin girls were sold in exc ..read more

SQUASH – Episode 3: Ali’s Journey To The Bandit Training Camp In North Africa Kadiri made some hand gestures resembling drawing a circle in the air, and within three minutes the entire squad of bandits disappeared behind the dust they raised in different directions.   As the dust settled, I saw a rugged-looking motorcycle. It has an unusual height for a front-wheel suspension, with rough road tires for both the front and back wheels.   Kadiri walked towards the motorcycle and mounted it. He motioned to me to come to him.   Let’s go to Mauritania, my little brother.   He ope ..read more

SQUASH – Episode 2: The Special Boy And West Africa’s Field Marshal of Bandits I woke up very early one morning as usual on a mat that could take six kids lying such that our feet touched the rough dry earth. The weather was mostly dry at this time of the year just like every other time of the year in Kano.   My father, Garba called out to Gambo, my mother…I fondly call her Yaya. He requested that she bath me. It was time for him to send me to the islamic school. I could feel Yayas’ heart even though she tried to hide her feelings from me…she was heartbroken and deep down she wished there ..read more

SQUASH – Episode 1: The Governors’ Daughter and The Bandits Kweku, kwuka, kweku, kwuka…the noise from the ceiling fan was so loud but I could still hear the men talking loudly and carelessly about their sexual exploits in the surrounding rooms of the torture chamber. The gross things I heard made me come up with different thoughts in my mind on how I must find a way to kill myself before I allow any of these men to lay their filthy hands on me. Memories started coming into my head in seeps that were so brief that at this rate, it could take the whole day to make out how I got here. I remember ..read more

IYANU – Episode 1: The Girl, The Spirit, and The Man of God The last thing I remember doing was holding Temi’s hands. I also vaguely remember turning my head on the soft pillow of the hospital, trying to take a nap. I didn’t know that would be the last time in my almost perfect body. Almost perfect, because I was committed to going to the gym to reduce my tummy which looked like a 6-month-old pregnancy, because of the habit of eating junk anytime I wanted to. I also remember the fight that indirectly led to admission to the hospital. The fact is, I was a good human, but people always wanted to ..read more

Poultry farm management Housing Parameters for poultry housing   Sitting Avoid: Swampy areas Sloppy plots Construction of poultry house on an area that has been used for garbage Construction of poultry house near factories Construction of poultry house near public areas such as market, stadium etc.     Technical criteria for poultry house construction   Orientation of poultry house The direction of the frequent strong winds should be taken into consideration, so that the poultry house should not be exposed to strong winds, rains and sunrays. It is advisable that poultry ..read more

Introduction To Poultry Farming Poultry farming is the pillar of agriculture. It has been clinically proven that man requires a balanced diet to survive. One of the essential requirements for this balanced diet is protein, which is supplied by meat. Apart from red meat – beef etc., The other class of meat is that of birds. Within this family of birds, You have broilers, layers, ducks, Quails, and turkeys. This not only provides meat, but eggs as well. It is because of their nutritional and economic Importance that many farmers go into their production. Experience has also taught that they are ..read more