Dreams must be kept alive and not allowed to die. That is what is keeping Kabir Daddy, a 24 years old young man from Bichi local government area of Kano state going, despite the harsh economic realities in the country.

From Edwin Olofu, Kano

For Paulina Yusuf a mother of five children, Friday the 20 January 2012 will forever remain a day that she will not forget in her life. The middle aged woman, who is still at a loss why fate was so cruel to her, that she lost her husband in a controversial circumstance at the Bompai police headquarters in 2003, is again mourning the death of her two children, who died when the dreaded Boko Haram sect struck Kano metropolis.